1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

  • Gulliver's Travels
  • Roxana
  • Moll Flanders
  • Love In Excess
  • Robinson Crusoe
  • A Tale of a Tub
  • Oroonoko
  • The Princess of Cleves

Thursday, January 5, 2012

38. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

This is worth reading again, because it wasn't until I was a fair way in that I realised the underlying sexual innuendo.  The story purports to be about Tristam Shandy, but we're a long way in before Tristam even gets born, and the story ends when Tristam is still a child.

What's interesting in this novel is the characters and their relationships:  Tristam's father and mother, his Uncle Toby, Yorick, Corporal Trim and Widow Wadman are all lovable, if flawed, human beings.

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