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Laurence Sterne (1713–1768) was an Irish-born Anglican clergyman who spent most of his life in rural Yorkshire, where he was known as an eccentric wit and indifferent priest. He was nearly fifty and virtually unknown when the first two volumes of Tristram Shandy appeared in 1759 and made him the most famous writer in England overnight. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.
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Start with The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne, ranked #55 in the Canon Compass list.
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Sterne's Tristram Shandy: the wildly digressive novel that broke every rule of storytelling. The 18th-century masterpiece that invented postmodernism.