The life and opinions of Tristam Snandy, gentleman
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010
- xliii, 604 p. ; ill. (b &w), 20 cm.
- Oxford World's Classics .
Though Tristram is always present as narrator and commentator, the book contains little of his life, only the story of a trip through France and accounts of the four comical mishaps which shaped the course of his life from an early age. Firstly, while still only a homunculus, Tristram's implantation within his mother's womb was disturbed. At the very moment of procreation, his mother asked his father if he had remembered to wind the clock.