![]() ![]() The complicated plans fill the vetreans Toby and Trim with joy and gives them a reason to exist. ![]() He always tells war stories of his expierences to Walter, and Trim a friend, servant and corporal in the same military unit, they live again through the many sieges of enemy cities. Walter the father reads plenty, an obviously wealthy landowner has the time, Toby a former wounded captain in the army slowly recovers in Walter's residence. The poor, nervous, concerned mother Elizabeth prefers the midwife than Doctor Slop a short man with a reputation for being a quack, bringing forceps does not give confidence. Much of the story is the waiting for the main character the son to appear, Tristram, be born. ![]() ![]() An outrageous satire full of coarse double entrendres, sexual innuendoes, by strangely a Church of England clergyman who was one of the founders of the British novel you can imagine the reactions.The center of the narrative is Walter Shandy and his brother Toby and their discussions about books, war, politics, or anything. When a very popular book from a different, distant era fades from view we wonder why? Published in nine instalments the last in 1767 that would have continued except for the untimely author Laurence Sterne's demise.The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. ![]()
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