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How many volumes are in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman?
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Laurence Sterne
Novelist Laurence Sterne, detail of an oil painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1760; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, the experimental novel by Laurence Sterne, was published in nine volumes between 1759 and 1767. These volumes were released in five separate installments over the course of those eight years.123