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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... 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 an introduction... 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

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

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

They order, said I, this matter better in France.-You have been in France? said my gentleman, turning quick upon me, with the most civil triumph in the world.-Strange! quoth I, debating the matter with myself, That one and twenty miles sailing, for 'tis absolutely no further... Read Full Overview

They order, said I, this matter better in France.-You have been in France? said my gentleman, turning quick upon me, with the most civil triumph in the world.-Strange! quoth I, debating the matter with myself, That one and twenty miles sailing, for 'tis absolutely no further... Read Full Overview