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Loading... A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italyby Laurence Sterne
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Not quite Tristram Shandy. But then again, what is? (  ) prophetandmistress | Mar 25, 2009 |  ... we neither know nor care whether Laurence Sterne really went to France, whether he was there accosted by the poor Franciscan, at first rebuked him unkindly, and then gave him a peace offering: or whether the whole be not a fiction. In either case we equally are sorrowful at the rebuke, and secretly resolve we will never do so: we are pleased with the subsequent atonement, and view with emulation a soul candidly acknowleging it's fault and making a just reparation ... (TJ to Robert Skipwith, 3 August 1771) http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?... 2  ThomasJefferson | Sep 10, 2007 | Less of a travelogue and more a series of sketches, somewhat erotic stories, amusing or pathetic incidents, philosophical musings, and anecdotes of all kinds. Sterne is also the author of Tristram Shandy. tripleblessings | Feb 2, 2007 | 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 observations and naif adages of a man who understood that the real criminals in our society are the bores. One of the favorite apothegmas of everyone except a good many people, is: "God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb". I know, you thought it was Biblical.... (  ) keylawk | Sep 12, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
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