This new Penguin Classics edition features an introduction that discusses the novel in relation to Sterne's other writing and places it within the context of "sentimental" literature.
The novel was extremely popular and helped to establish travel writing as a dominant genre.
The book recounts his various adventures, usually of the amorous type, in a series of self-contained episodes. The book is less eccentric and more elegant in style than Tristram Shandy and was better received by contemporary critics.
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 met ...
Viktor Shklovsky's A Sentimental Journey, which borrows its title from Laurence Sterne, describes the travels of a bewildered intellectual through Russia, Persia, the Ukraine, and the Caucasus during the period...
Unabridged republication of the classic 1768 edition.
I told him, “In fact, the book “Sentimental Journey” I am working on now would be the last one I write.” He asked what my future plans were. I told him whatever Terri wanted to do. A lot of hugs, handshakes and see you later and it was ...
Laurence Sterne was an Irish-born English novelist and an Anglican clergyman.