A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
by OpenStories
Original author: Laurence Sterne
"A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy" by Laurence Sterne is a novel published in 1768. It follows the Reverend Mr. Yorick, a character from Sterne's earlier work, on a picaresque journey through France told from a sentimental perspective. The fragmented narrative explores the connection between sympathy and sexual desire through encounters with monks, shop girls, and fellow travelers. Written in response to declining interest in Tristram Shandy, the novel blends travel writing with emotional intensity, leaving readers to question whether Yorick's extreme feelings are sincere or satirical.
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, by Laurence Sterne. Republished by OpenStories from Project Gutenberg eBook #804.
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18 Chapters
- 1.Front Matter572 words
- 2.Chapter I: HAD scarce uttered the words, when a poor monk of the order of St1,246 words
- 3.Preface: In the Desobligeant1,254 words
- 4.Chapter I: PERCEIVED that something darken’d the passage more than myself, as I2,647 words
- 5.Chapter I: HAD never quitted the lady’s hand all this time, and had held it so1,796 words
- 6.Chapter I: NEVER finished a twelve guinea bargain so expeditiously in my life: my641 words
- 7.Chapter I: HAD once lost my portmanteau from behind my chaise, and twice got out423 words
- 8.Chapter I: AM apt to be taken with all kinds of people at first sight; but never6,937 words
- 9.Chapter I: HAD counted twenty pulsations, and was going on fast towards the1,632 words
- 10.Chapter I: HAD never heard the remark made by any one in my life, except by one;3,470 words
- 11.Chapter I: COULD not find in my heart to torture La Fleur’s with a serious look1,542 words
- 12.Chapter I: GOT into my remise the hour I proposed: La Fleur got up behind, and I449 words
- 13.Chapter I: SHOULD not like to have my enemy take a view of my mind when I am going2,092 words
- 14.Chapter I: FOUND no difficulty in getting admittance to Monsieur le Count de B1,264 words
- 15.Chapter I: COULD not conceive why the Count de B— had gone so abruptly out of the3,088 words
- 16.Chapter I: WAS immediately followed up by the master of the hotel, who came into4,193 words
- 17.Chapter I: STEPPED hastily after him: it was the very man whose success in asking1,140 words
- 18.Chapter I: NEVER felt what the distress of plenty was in any one shape till4,177 words