Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
Author: first_name: Laurence
last_name: Sterne
Language: English
Year: 1768

After the bizarre textual antics of "Tristram Shandy", this book would seem to require a literary health warning. Sure enough, it opens in mid-conversation upon a subject never explained; meanders after a fashion through a hundred pages, then fizzles out in mid-sentence - so, a plotless novel lacking a beginning, a middle or an end. Let us say: an exercise in the infinitely comic. <br><br>
"There is not a secret so aiding to the progress of sociality, as to get master of this short hand, and to