Although he never appears in the book, his death is discussed in Book 4, Chapter 31. The Scullion A fat, simple kitchen servant.īobby Shandy The older son of the Shandy family. Another bustler, distinguished by frequent maladroitness and poor sense of timing. A young woman who bustles about, she is the unwitting tool of various small disasters that strike the Shandy household. An eloquent orator who shares his master's enthusiasm for past battles. His main interest in life is fortifications and military history, and his character is one of gentleness and amiability.Ĭorporal Trim (James Butler) Loyal servant and former companion-at-arms of Toby Shandy. A singularly down-to-earth woman whose outstanding traits are her lack of imagination and her inability to ask an interesting question.Ĭaptain Toby Shandy (retired) Uncle of Tristram and brother of Walter. A man who loves hypotheses, theories, and erudition, and hates interruptions. The text and notes of this volume are based on the acclaimed Florida Edition, with a critical introduction by Melvyn New and Christopher Ricks’s introductory essay from the first Penguin Classics edition.Walter Shandy Father of Tristram.
A joyful celebration of the endless possibilities of the art of fiction, Tristram Shandy is also a wry demonstration of its limitations. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate ‘hero’ Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter, the amours and military obsessions of Uncle Toby, and a host of other characters, including Dr Slop, Corporal Trim and the parson Yorick.
Laurence Sterne’s great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it, with a rich metafictional narrative that might classify it as the first ‘postmodern’ novel. One of the greatest novels ever written, now in a wonderful new clothbound edition ‘L-d! said my mother, what is all this story about? – A COCK and a BULL, said Yorick – And one of the best of its kind, I ever heard’
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