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A furiously witty response to Tobias Smollett's curmudgeonly 'Travels through France and Italy', Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy became a hugely influential work of travel writing in its own right. This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction... Read Full Overview

The quintessential novel of sentiment, A Sentimental Journeymasquerades as the fragmentary travel journal of Parson Yorick, a whimsical and amorous Englishman abroad. Accompanied through Paris and the provinces by his loyal French valet, Yorick enjoys a variety of sentimental... Read Full Overview

A furiously witty response to Tobias Smollett's curmudgeonly 'Travels through France and Italy', Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy became a hugely influential work of travel writing in its own right. This Penguin Classics edition includes... Read Full Overview

Laurence Sterne was an Irish writer and Anglican clergyman. Sterne is now best known for his classic novels A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, and The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy.A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy that details Sterne's trip in... Read Full Overview

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy is a novel by the Irish-born English author Laurence Sterne, written and first published in 1768, as Sterne was facing death. In 1765 Laurence Sterne travelled through France and Italy as far south as Naples, and after returning... Read Full Overview

Mr. Yorick, the sentimental traveller, refrains from the customary reflections on monuments and landscapes. Instead, he focuses on his sweet and affectionate emotions, experiencing them everywhere he goes and with every creature who crosses his path -- from bursts of sympathy... Read Full Overview

Published just months before his death in 1768, A Sentimental Journey is Laurence Sterne's lightly fictionalized account of his own European travels; and being Sterne, it is more about digressions, misunderstandings, and risqu jokes than the places he visits. Narrated by... Read Full Overview

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy is a travelogue written by Laurence Sterne. The book was first published in 1768 and is considered a classic of English literature. The book is a fictional account of a journey made by the narrator, Yorick, through France and Italy... Read Full Overview

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality,... Read Full Overview

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality,... Read Full Overview