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A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (Xist Classics) Kindle Edition

by Laurence Sterne (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.8 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
The Birth of Travel Writing

“Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy divinity which stirs within me...All comes from thee, great-great SENSORIUM of the world!” - Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey

Parson Yorick is an English traveler who doesn’t know much about plots and how to write proper novels. He knows many things however about human character. So he decides to write his impressions and adventures during his travels in France and Italy. No plot, just his encounters with many different men and women.


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Geboren am 24.11.1713 in Clonmel (Irland); gestorben am 18.3.1768 in London. Der Sohn eines Offiziers studierte in Cambridge Theologie, wurde durch den Einfluß seines Onkels Pfarrer in Sutton und arbeitete dort 20 Jahre lang als Landgeistlicher. Schon die ersten beiden Bände seines ersten Romans, The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy (Leben und Meinungen des Herrn Tristram Shandy) waren so erfolgreich, daß er 1760 nach London übersiedeln konnte, wo er eine in den vornehmsten Kreisen geschätzte Persönlichkeit war. In Deutschland zählten Jean Paul, Lichtenberg, Goethe und viele andere zu seinen Verehrern.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B015G8AGBI
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Xist Classics
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 17 Sept. 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 106 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1681952536
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  • iandliz
    2.0 out of 5 stars A Sentimental Journey Through France & Italy by Laurence Sterne
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 May 2011
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    This is the tale of a monk, Yorick, who embarks on a journey across the English Channel to Calais and on to Paris. He then sets out through France towards Italy, meeting a variety of characters and getting into tricky situations along the way, and that is as far as the story gets. Unfortunately the author, Laurence Sterne, succumbs to consumption before he has finished his book.

    The book was first published in 1768 so pre-dates the golden age of classic literature. The language is hard to grasp to begin with although the story begins to flow better as the book goes on. The book has some humour in it and is one of the earliest forms of travel writing by the leisurely tourist - perhaps Sterne was the Bill Bryson of his day.

    I can't say I enjoyed this book. I can see that it stands as an early example of travel writing and is of interest to anyone who enjoyed Sterne's other work, principally Tristram Shandy (which I haven't read) but, for me, it didn't stand up as a novel to be read for pleasure. It ends so abruptly that I wondered what the point was of reading it at all. I was looking forward to an insight into 18th century France and Italy and I didn't really get that.
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  • Mikael Bjornstjerna
    4.0 out of 5 stars A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 May 2013
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    Dear sir,
    I bought "A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy" by Laurence Sterne after having read "Tristram Shandy" by the same author, the latter book an famous masterpiece. A Sentimental Journey is another kind of book as well as beeing unfinished - this could in another context have been the writer's aim, but was unfortunately not.
    The book suffers from comparison with the famous "Tristram Shandy" and largely because of my expectations, but I am still very pleased to have bought and read it.
    Sincerely yours
    M. Bjornstjerna
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  • David Herdson
    3.0 out of 5 stars Ground-breaking (fictional) travel journal
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 February 2018
    Be warned: this isn’t an easy book to read. The eighteenth-century style of writing with endless sub-clauses and short, interrupted fragments is taxing on the concentration.

    That said, it’s still a pleasant diversion into the time and place it was set. Although a novel, Sterne did travel through France and Italy so it was, perhaps, inspired by real events. Where it was ground-breaking (and trend-setting) was in its ‘sentimental’ approach: the observations of people, situations and their body language. Some of the vignettes are superbly drawn and paint a far better picture of the life of the traveller – or tourist – 250 or more years ago.

    The title is a little misleading. Sterne died shortly after the book was published and the protagonist never makes it out of France, though it’s clear he was heading there. It may be that Sterne planned a further volume.

    I should say something about the quality of the publication too, which is poor. This is a classic and there are many published versions available – if you plan to buy it, go for one of them. The text here is too crammed onto each page but then suddenly white space appears for no good reason. It looks almost as if the text was downloaded from a free website and hasn’t been properly formatted.

    For all that, travel in the era before good roads, before cars, trains and aeroplanes was hard. A little difficulty in the reading should be set in that context.
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  • Customer Since 1997
    5.0 out of 5 stars A nice light read
    Reviewed in the United States on 9 March 2012
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    This book is a fun, light read.

    It's the kind of book you'd read while sunning out in the garden on a nice sunny summer day.

    I giggled quite a lot.
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  • Bill
    3.0 out of 5 stars Humorous but incomplete
    Reviewed in the United States on 30 April 2017
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    A humorous story of the author's journey with scenes of mistaken identity and cultural differences providing the comedy. Sterne died before completing the story.
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  • Yanhanqun
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on 24 February 2017
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    very good
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  • Albertine
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on 23 December 2015
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    Item just as described.
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  • Danell Fawson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on 24 March 2015
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    Excellent copy
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