A whimsical, digressive account of a clergyman's tour through France and Italy, alive to every small feeling. Sterne's influential sentimental travelogue.
Books mentioned in A Sentimental Journey (2)
Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare: “'twas better to read Shakespeare; so taking up "_Much Ado About Nothing_," I transported myself instantly from the chair I sat in to Messina in Sicily”
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes: “all which, as Sancho Panza said to Don Quixote, they might have seen dry-shod at home.”
Books that mention A Sentimental Journey (2)
The Common Reader: Second Series by Virginia Woolf: “Essay on Sterne discusses "that narrative of a little tour in France which he called A Sentimental Journey."”