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Given the wrong name at baptism and accidentally circumcised by a sash window at age five - Tristram Shandy had a difficult start to life. His luck never changed - but the hero of Laurence Sternes ...

Of course, if anyone were cocky and bullheaded enough to film Laurence Sterne’s supposedly unfilmable literary romp “Tristram Shandy,” it would have to be Michael Winterbottom. Then again, the ...

Laurence Sterne's insanely digressive 18th century novel "Tristram Shandy" once looked about as likely to be filmed as "Finnegans Wake" or the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Cheating flagrantly, helmer ...

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The British publishing house Visual Editions gives Laurence Sterne’s “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman” the loopy graphic treatment it deserves. Sterne, the 18th-century godfather ...

On this week’s RTÉ Book Show, Regan Hutchins gets to grips with one of his favourite novels: Tristram Shandy by Tipperary-born writer Laurence Sterne. Listen to it above. The only problem with that is ...

Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, directed by Michael Winterbottom, written by Martin Hardy [Frank Cottrell Boyce and Michael Winterbottom], based on the novel by Laurence Sterne Winterbottom’s ...

On Wednesdays, classes in Coláiste Mhuire Mullingar in 1970 finished early but the school bus did not depart until 4.30pm. I spent the two hours in the town library, located in what had been the ...

Many deem Laurence Sterne's 1759 novel Tristram Shandy to be unreadable. You might also call it unfilmable if the devilishly clever director Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People) hadn't figured ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter A is for Action. Nor a word you associate with Tristram Shandy. For every inch forward taken by the plot, there are 15 miles of ...