<P> As its title suggests , the book is ostensibly Tristram 's narration of his life story . But it is one of the central jokes of the novel that he can not explain anything simply , that he must make explanatory diversions to add context and colour to his tale , to the extent that Tristram 's own birth is not even reached until Volume III . </P>
<P> As its title suggests , the book is ostensibly Tristram 's narration of his life story . But it is one of the central jokes of the novel that he can not explain anything simply , that he must make explanatory diversions to add context and colour to his tale , to the extent that Tristram 's own birth is not even reached until Volume III . </P>
in which volume tristam shandy finally recount his birth
in which volume tristam shandy finally recount his birth
Volume III
Volume III