Tristram Shandy Author:Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy has had considerable influence on literature-that of other languages as well as our own. The romantic and sentimental movements in France, Germany, Italy, and Russia of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries owed much to Sterne. Heine had a great regard for him, claiming that he "opens a window... on the hidden reserve of the so... more »ul."« less