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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick by Ian Jack, Ian Robert James Jack, Laurence Sterne (1998, Paperback) 
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick by Ian Jack, Ian Robert James Jack, Laurence Sterne (1998, Paperback)

 
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick by Ian Jack, Ian Robert James Jack, Laurence Sterne (1998, Paperback)

Author: Ian Jack, Ian Robert James Jack, Laurence Sterne
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Publication Date: 1998-08-01
Series: Oxford World's Classics Series
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 019283522X
ISBN-13: 9780192835222
Product ID: EPID1088033
Description: Sterne's famous fictional travelogue was published in two volumes a month before his death in 1768, and is based on his two journeys abroad in 1762-64 and 1765. Sterne called it his "Work of Redemption," presumably for the sins and error...
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Sterne's famous fictional travelogue was published in two volumes a month before his death in 1768, and is based on his two journeys abroad in 1762-64 and 1765. Sterne called it his "Work of Redemption," presumably for the sins and errors committed in writing the greatest "cock and bull" story ever published in the form of "Tristram Shandy." Through the amiable Parson Yorick, a character familiar to readers of "Tristram Shandy," Sterne parodies the superior tone of the fashionable travel books of his time in which Europe was often compared unfavorably to England. His narrative seems to revere sentiment as the great measure of all experience--from nostalgia and melancholy to romance and extreme tenderness--while at the same time an ambiguous degree of irony wavers somewhere between Sterne and the voice of his narrator.

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Publication Date:1998-08-01
Series:Oxford World's Classics Series
Editor:Ian Jack, Ian Robert James Jack

Size
Length:272 pages
Height:7.8 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:0.5 in
Weight:6.4 oz

Industry Reviews
"Fiction, no doubt, most of it, but concocted on a basis of fact, the interludes of seriousness as distinct from sentimentality drawn from recollections of his earlier travels in France, the whole worked over with great care and nicely calculated to please his large and faithful public, as indeed it did. That he himself was pleased with it we may well believe. It continued the projection of his ideal self."
Introduction - Daniel George (01/01/1960)

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