The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman a rancher, has just hanged an alleged cattle rustler without a trial and is defending himself to his daughter who vehemently disapproves of the hanging. Finishing his justification he prepares to relax in his library and asks his daughter to fetch him his copy of "Tristram Shandy". Editions (plain text, HTML and other) Misc The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or Tristram Shandy) is a novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in 1759, and seven others following over the next seven years
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Tristram Shandy is listed as one of the co-founders of The League. A short story "Oh Most Cursed Addition Engine" by H. S. Donnelly was published in the Canadian Science Fiction magazine "On Spec" #86. In it, Walter Shandy attempts to build an Addition Engine, while Toby and Corporal Trim re-enact in miniature Wellington's great victory at Vitoria. Trim was the adventurous ship's cat of the explorer Matthew Flinders, named after Corporal Trim, and a minor (yet titular) character in Bryce Courtenay's novel "Matthew Flinders' Cat". In the 1976 film "The Missouri Breaks", with Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson, Braxton,