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The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentlemanLaurence Sterne

The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman

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Original author: Laurence Sterne

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"The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" by Laurence Sterne is a humorous novel published from 1759 to 1767. The work purports to be a memoir, but narrator Tristram doesn't reach his own birth until the third volume. Through endless digressions, he recounts four accidents that doomed him to misfortune while depicting conflicts between his irritable father Walter and gentle Uncle Toby. The novel features sexual innuendo, unfinished sentences, and surprising visual elements including blank pages and censored paragraphs, transforming Sterne from obscure clergyman to literary celebrity.

The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman, by Laurence Sterne. Republished by OpenStories from Project Gutenberg eBook #1079.

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  1. 1.Chapter I: WISH either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they332 words
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  4. 4.Chapter I: KNOW there are readers in the world, as well as many other good793 words
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  9. 9.Chapter I: SOLEMNLY declare to all mankind, that the above dedication was made530 words
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  19. 19.Chapter I: WOULD sooner undertake to explain the hardest problem in geometry,1,926 words
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  23. 23.Chapter I: HAVE a strong propensity in me to begin this chapter very878 words
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  26. 26.Chapter I: HAVE begun a new book, on purpose that I might have room enough to848 words
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  29. 29.Chapter I: WOULD not give a groat for that man’s knowledge in pen-craft, who634 words
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  42. 42.Chapter I: HAVE dropped the curtain over this scene for a minute,——to remind you3,099 words
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  92. 92.Chapter I: WISH I could write a chapter upon sleep566 words
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  115. 115.Chapter I: AM a Turk if I had not as much forgot my mother, as if Nature had227 words
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  17. 149.Chapter I: AM so impatient to return to my own story, that what remains of young1,050 words
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  27. 159.Chapter I: MUST observe, that although in the first year’s campaign, the word637 words
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  32. 164.Chapter I: BEG the reader will assist me here, to wheel off my uncle Toby’s316 words
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  35. 167.Chapter I: AM not insensible, brother Shandy, that when a man whose profession918 words
  36. 168.Chapter I: TOLD the Christian reader—I say Christian——hoping he is one——and if261 words
  37. 169.Chapter I: TOLD the Christian reader in the beginning of the chapter which696 words
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  42. 174.Chapter I: AM now beginning to get fairly into my work; and by the help of a389 words
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  57. 189.Chapter D: E D I C a T I O N297 words
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  65. 197.Chapter I: AM glad of it, said I, settling the account with myself, as I walk’d632 words
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  76. 208.Chapter I: HAD now the whole south of France, from the banks of the Rhône to274 words
  77. 209.Chapter I: HAD not gone above two leagues and a half, before the man with his1,130 words
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  82. 214.Chapter I: WISH my uncle Toby had been a water-drinker; for then the thing had589 words
  83. 215.Chapter C: H a P. XXXII328 words
  84. 216.Chapter I: DO not speak it with regard to the coarseness or cleanness of them—or761 words
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  91. 223.Chapter I: THINK, an’ please your honour, quoth Trim, the fortifications are249 words
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  94. 226.Chapter I: HAD escaped, continued the corporal, all that time from falling in567 words
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  105. 237.Chapter I: CALL all the powers of time and chance, which severally check us in601 words
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