{"product_id":"2026200007516-secondhand-tristram-shandy-and-a-sentimental-journey-through-france-and-italy","title":"Tristram Shandy And A Sentimental Journey Through France And Italy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Fair                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA cornerstone of eighteenth-century English literature, this volume unites two of Laurence Sterne's most celebrated works — the wildly experimental Tristram Shandy and the charming travelogue A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy — in a single essential collection. Tristram Shandy chronicles the life and opinions of its hapless narrator with gleeful digression, subverting every convention of the novel form through typographical tricks, blank pages, and a plot that perpetually undermines itself, resulting in one of the most audaciously comic works in the English language. Where Tristram Shandy revels in chaos, A Sentimental Journey presents a gentler, more lyrical voice, following the amiable Parson Yorick through France and Italy as he encounters a series of tender, humorous, and philosophically rich human moments. Together, the two works illustrate Sterne's singular genius for blending wit, pathos, and self-aware narrative play, cementing his reputation as a radical innovator who anticipated the stream-of-consciousness techniques of modernist fiction by nearly two centuries. This pairing is indispensable for readers of classic literature, literary history, and anyone who appreciates prose that is simultaneously laugh-out-loud funny and deeply humane.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48887899750619,"sku":"2026200007516-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/b0ce6562-78f6-4675-8107-b60ce8c26f2f.png?v=1781748370","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200007516-secondhand-tristram-shandy-and-a-sentimental-journey-through-france-and-italy","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}