Shmoopers, you're checking out one of the Top 40 Hits of the 18th century. Tristram Shandy might be soapy, but it's also got substance. Basically, it covers everything but Tristram's life: his father's philosophical opinions, his mother's obsession with giving birth in London, his parson's ability to make everyone mad, his uncle's mania for toy forts, and, more than anything else, how stinkin' hard it is to write this book. Where does the soap opera come in, you might ask? Tristram Shandy's got all the drama of Days of Our Lives -think marriage, misunderstandings, mistakes and misnamings. Tristram Shandy is a soap opera about penises-big penises, small penises, working penises, broken penises, wounded penises, real penises, symbolic penises, and… you get the point. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Introduction
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