"A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy" by Laurence Sterne is a late 1700s story about a character named Mr. Yorick, who seems a lot like the author, traveling across France and Italy and thinking deeply about life. Yorick thinks a lot about what traveling means and how it changes you. Right away, in Calais, he starts thinking about what it's like to be human in different places. When he meets a poor monk, it makes him think about being kind and whether he should help people even when he's not sure. This part shows that Yorick notices everything and feels things strongly, so the trip is going to be about seeing new places but also about what he's thinking and feeling as he meets new people and deals with tricky situations.
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
By Laurence Sterne
Embark on a whimsical European tour with a sensitive traveler as he explores not just new lands, but the depths of human emotion and connection.
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About the AuthorLaurence Sterne was an Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric who wrote the novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, published sermons and memoirs, and indulged in local politics. He grew up in a military family, travelling mainly in Ireland but briefly in England. An uncle paid for Sterne to attend Hipperholme Grammar School in the West Riding of Yorkshire, as Sterne's father was ordered to Jamaica, where he died of malaria some years later. He attended Jesus College, Cambridge on a sizarship, gaining bachelor's and master's degrees. While Vicar of Sutton-on-the-Forest, Yorkshire, he married Elizabeth Lumley in 1741. His ecclesiastical satire A Political Romance infuriated the church and was burnt.
Laurence Sterne was an Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric who wrote the novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, published sermons and memoirs, and indulged in local politics. He grew up in a military family, travelling mainly in Ireland but briefly in England. An uncle paid for Sterne to attend Hipperholme Grammar School in the West Riding of Yorkshire, as Sterne's father was ordered to Jamaica, where he died of malaria some years later. He attended Jesus College, Cambridge on a sizarship, gaining bachelor's and master's degrees. While Vicar of Sutton-on-the-Forest, Yorkshire, he married Elizabeth Lumley in 1741. His ecclesiastical satire A Political Romance infuriated the church and was burnt.
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