Cosimo Classics Travel & Exploration: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (Paperback)

from Marse

A Sentimental Journey is the story of a man traveling from England to France and back and his adventures, or should I say, his encounters during the trip. We don't get a lot of "travel" descriptions, but rather descriptions of the carriages he takes, how he hires them, his servant, and the ladies...

from

This 250 year old novel was a fictional satire on a more serious non-fictional account of a journey through France and Italy by Sterne's contemporary Tobias Smollett. The satire is in the fact that the traveller here (Yorick, a minor character in Sterne's most famous novel The Life and Adventures...

from keylawk

A serialized 'Tristam Shandy' made the rural vicar 'passing rich' and the talk of London. He balanced these with The Sermons of Mr. Yorick, a title apparently drawn from the 'fellow of infinite jest'. In 1762-64 and 1765-66, Sterne traveled through France and Italy. We find here the pretty observ...

from AliceAnna

Yeah, just not a fan. If it had been any longer, I wouldn't have finished it.

from tortoisebook

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 t...