title: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy and Continuation of the Bramine's Journal
author:  Laurence Sterne 
description: <DIV><P>Melvyn New's and W. G. Day's edition of Sterne's <I>Sentimental Journey</I> is the single best scholarly edition of that quirky but essential text available for student use. The notes are meticulous and hugely informative. The Introduction is lucid and useful, and the supplementary materials, including excerpts from <I>Tristram Shandy</I> and some of Sterne's sermons, provide essential background. --John Richetti, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania</P></DIV><br /><br /><DIV><P>In terms of the quality and quantity of annotation, as well as the care spent in establishing the authoritative texts, the Hackett edition renders all other competing editions of these two works flimsy and obsolete. --Vincent Carretta, Department of English, University of Maryland</P></DIV><br /><br /><DIV><P>. . . [A]n extremely useful student edition. . . . For obvious reasons, this student edition cannot be as copiously annotated as the Florida research edition, but it is generously annotated all the same. Many notes are simply explanatory: what is a 'Desobligeant,' and why is it called that? More interesting, however, are notes in which the editors use their considerable expertise to place some particular word or reference or sentiment expressed in Sterne's text into the broader contexts of his thought. So, for example, they point out numerous instances in which Sterne was recalling phrases from the Bible or earlier literature or in which his late notions echo or revise ideas first expressed years earlier in his own sermons, his correspondence, or <I>Tristam Shandy</I>. They bravely attempt to untangle some of Sterne's expressions which hover uneasily between English and imperfect French; they point out many instances of Sterne's naughty <I>doubles entendres</I> not previously noticed (by this reader). More generally, they place Yorick's remarks and Sterne's thinking in the midst of the culture and customs of their times--the costs of travel, the experiences of other travelers, political considerations, what people were reading, and so on. In the same vein, they provide an appendix which reprints eight longer segments from Sterne's other writings to illustrate some of his characteristic attitudes. All in all, then, this is a very 'teacherly' edition, with able guides providing useful and reliable guidance. (A tip of the hat is due to the publisher as well, for bringing out this edition at a price that a student might actually afford to pay. --Peter M. Briggs, <I>The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer</I></P></DIV>
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  # A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Laurence Sterne
  
  
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  Laurence Sterne
  
  
  1\. Prologue
  
  
  2\. Calais
  
  
  3\. The Monk. Calais
  
  
  4\. The Monk. Calais
  
  
  5\. The Monk. Calais
  
  
  6\. The Desobligeant. Calais
  
  
  7\. Preface. In the Desobligeant
  
  
  8\. Calais
  
  
  9\. In the Street. Calais
  
  
  10\. The Remise Door. Calais
  
  
  11\. The Remise Door. Calais
  
  
  12\. The Snuff-Box. Calais
  
  
  13\. The Remise Door. Calais
  
  
  14\. In the Street. Calais
  
  
  15\. The Remise. Calais
  
  
  16\. The Remise. Door. Calais
  
  
  17\. The Remise. Calais
  
  
  18\. In the Street. Calais
  
  
  19\. Montriul
  
  
  20\. Montriul
  
  
  21\. Montriul
  
  
  22\. Montriul
  
  
  23\. A Fragment
  
  
  24\. Montriul
  
  
  25\. The Bidet
  
  
  26\. Nampont. The Dead Ass
  
  
  27\. Nampont. The Postilion
  
  
  28\. Amiens
  
  
  29\. The Letter. Amiens
  
  
  30\. The Letter
  
  
  31\. Paris
  
  
  32\. The Wig. Paris
  
  
  33\. The Pulse. Paris
  
  
  34\. The Husband. Paris
  
  