TITLE DEED HOW DID CELEBRATED BOOKS GET THEIR NAMES? Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: October 16, 2005| Author: GARY DEXTER | Copyright information

TO SAY the title is misleading would be an understatement. The book contains hardly any of the life, and precious few of the opinions of Tristram Shandy. It is instead a 600-page digression, or, as the author puts it in the final sentence, the story of "a COCK and a BULL''. The name Tristram Shandy, does, however, reveal a secret intention. Sterne's greatest influence was the sentimental, satiric, circumlocutory Don Quixote, the story of "the peerless knight of La Mancha, whom....

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