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When were the first volumes of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman published?
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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 first two volumes of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman were published by Laurence Sterne at York late in 1759.12