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

The crimson window-curtains... were drawn close; the sun was setting and reflected through them so warm a tint into the fair fille de chambres face I thought she blushd-the idea of it made me blush myself. We were quite alone; and that super-induced a second blush before the first could get off. -from The Temptation Laurence Sternes revolutionary novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman (1760-1767) plays with time space narrative conceits and the very concept of the novel itself-it has dramatically affected the course of English-language fiction in the centuries since with works from writers such as James Joyce and Thomas Pynchon showing his influence. A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768) is the thematic sequel a tale of a minor character from Shandy that is its own frolic of experimental fiction. Though less well known than its celebrated predecessor this is an equally startling and frantically imaginative work from a writer some consider a comic genius. This edition also features the collection The Journal to Eliza Sternes impishly coy diary of a separation from his mistress as well as numerous letters Sterne wrote to a variety of correspondents including his wife. Irish clergyman LAURENCE STERNE (1713¬-1768) also wrote the satire A Political Romance (1759) and published volumes of his sermons.