A Sentimental Journey & The Journal To Eliza by Laurence Sterne
Through France and Italy
A whimsical, bittersweet travel narrative follows a gentleman on a brief journey through provincial towns where comic mishaps, tender encounters, and lively digressions are used to probe manners and the nature of feeling; the tone shifts between irony and genuine sympathy as the narrator teases social pretensions while insisting on the importance of compassion. Paired with this are intensely personal, epistolary entries addressed to a beloved, blending playful flirtation, ardent confession, and melancholy longing that reveal the writer’s vulnerability and inventive rhetoric. Together they showcase a restless, digressive style that alternates between humor and pathos to explore love, imagination, and the complexities of human sentiment.
- Published
- 1768
- Nationality
- Irish
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- Unknown
- Original Language
- English
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- A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
- The Journal to Eliza
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