description: "Traduced by malice, persecuted by fiction, abandoned by false patrons, and overwhelmed by the sense of a domestic calamity," Tobias Smollett set off on a journey through France and Italy to relieve his despair. While there, he wrote regularly to his friends, and the result is this fascinating, wholeheartedly personal account of places and he encountered.Travels through France and Italy is a landmark work in travel literature. Full of prejudice, grousing, sharp observation, and caustic satire, it is the first travel book in modern literature to go beyond the simple conveyance of information to reflect the writer's state of mind.
language: English
title: Travels through France and Italy
titlecomplete: Travels through France and Italy (Travellers' classics, 11)
genres: History, Classics, Biography, Memoir, Italy, France, 18th Century, Travel, Nonfiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 95
places: France, Italy
publisher: Centaur P