Tristram Shandy

The Penguin English Library Edition of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

''I am got, I know not how, into a cold unmetaphorical vein of infamous writing, and cannot take a plumb-lift out of it for my soul; so must be obliged to go on writing like a Dutch commentator to the end of the chapter, unless something be done ...''

Laurence Sterne''s great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies ...