The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, often known simply as Tristram Shandy, is a humorous novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published from 1759 to 1767, in nine volumes across five inst
Title page of the first edition
My Uncle Toby and the Widow Wadman by Charles Robert Leslie, 1831
First editions of the nine volumes of Tristram Shandy
1760 Portrait of Laurence Sterne by Joshua Reynolds, commissioned by Sterne to celebrate his newfound literary fame. His elbow rests on a manuscript of Tristram Shandy.
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A Cock and Bull Story is a 2005 British comedy film directed by Michael Winterbottom. It is a film-within-a-film, featuring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon playing themselves as egotistical actors during
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
…audiences criticised it as obscene, but modernist and postmodernist authors embraced it in the twentieth century. Adaptations include the 2006 film A Cock and Bull Story, starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as they metafictionally struggle to make the film. Sterne was an obscure and financially struggling Anglican…
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Laurence Sterne's study at Shandy Hall, in which Stephen Fry appears as a caricatured version of "Patrick", the actual curator of the museum