A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. by Mr. Yorick.
London: James Fleming, 1769. Fourth Edition. Full-Leather. Fair / No Jacket. Item #2332036
Fourth edition. Front board loose, one leaf (pp. 143/4) loose, 1 inch chip from marginal corner of another leaf (pp. 155/6), boards a bit rubbed.
240 pp. Engraved frontispiece of author. Full leather, burgundy morocco spine label, gilt titles and rules. 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 travelled 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 also as an answer to Tobias Smollett's decidedly unsentimental Travels Through France and Italy. Sterne had met Smollett during his travels in Europe, and strongly objected to his spleen, acerbity and quarrelsomeness. He modeled the character of Smelfungus on him.
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