1920s A Sentimental Journey and Other Pieces Through France & Italy, by Laurence Sterne

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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy is a novel by Laurence Sterne, written and first published in 1768, as … Read more A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy is a novel by Laurence Sterne, written and first published in 1768, as Sterne was facing death. In 1765, Sterne traveled through France and Italy as far south as Naples and, after returning, determined to describe his travels from a sentimental point of view. The novel can be seen as an epilogue to the possibly unfinished work The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and as an answer to Tobias Smollett's decidedly unsentimental Travels Through France and Italy. Sterne had met Smollett during his travels in Europe and vehemently objected to his spleen, acerbity, and quarrelsomeness. He modeled the character of Smelfungus on him.
The narrator is the Reverend Mr. Yorick, who is slyly represented to guileless readers as Sterne's barely disguised alter ego. The book recounts his various adventures, usually of the romantic type, in a series of self-contained episodes. The book is less eccentric and more elegant in style than Tristram Shandy's and was better received by contemporary critics. It was published on 27 February, and on 18 March, Sterne died.

This is one of my all-time favorites (I do love dark humor), and this volume is in very good condition; the boards are done in a gloss black finish resembling leather, and the spine is finished in gold lettering and design, the pages are unmarked and in excellent condition, and the spine is stiff.

Measuring; 8.75 x 6 x 1.50

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