A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. #315 of 500 copies, of which only 250 were under the Golden Cockerel Press imprint (the rest were issued by Random House for the U.S. market). Board edges discolored, jacket spine faded. 1928 Hard Cover. 151 pp. Text reproduced with minor corrections from the 1780 edition. 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.