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"Tristram Shandy is an ironic masterpiece, a work of extraordinary originality, wit and learning. It is a work of considerable philosophical complexity but at the same time it is just a piece of flim-flam: it has been called the longest shaggy dog story in English Literature. It is both a classic novel and an anti-novel. It includes passages of seemingly-serious theology, but it can also be read as an elaborate bawdy joke."@en
"The pompous, garrulous Tristram Shandy's attempt to write a novel. The book shares with the reader a knowingness about what is being written and read, but this is complicated by the fact that the story he is ostensibly writing never really gets told. To tell the tale, the writer has to explain who all the characters are, how they relate to one another and what they are thinking, and these extensive offshoots are complemented by the author's own digressions and considerations, with the result that the plot can't progress because each new idea generates others of its own, as a kind of literary Hydra."@en
"Comically cursed at birth with the name Tristram, this gentleman relates every event in his life, from conception onward. Though everything occurs between parlor and garden, Tristram's excitable father, bewildered mother, and Uncle Toby provide ample opportunity for the digressions and madcap events that structure this seminal novel."@en
"An ironic masterpiece, a work of extraordinary originality, wit, and learning. The bawdy humour was popular with London society, and it has come to be seen as one of the greatest comic novels in English."@en
"Tristram Shandy is an ironic masterpiece, a work of extraordinary originality, wit and learning. It is a work of considerable philosophical complexity but at the same time it is just a piece of flim-flam: it has been called the longest shaggy-dog story in English Literature."@en
"Parodie op de autobiografie waarin weinig over de hoofdpersoon bekend wordt doordat de verteller voortdurend op komische wijze uitwijdt en goochelt met typografie en hoofdstukindeling."