WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GEORGE SAINTSBURY

THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY GENTLEMAN

THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENT. BOOK I CHAPTER I

THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY GENTLEMAN (2)

THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY GENTLEMAN (3)

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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly consider’d how much depended upon what they were then doing;——

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TRISTRAM SHANDY