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Blurb: “WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A. ALVAREZ
Owing, perhaps, to his Irish blood, Laurence Sterne is one of the most engaging buttonholers in literature.
He launches into conversation with no story to tell, little plan of narration, and a habit of slipping down every side-turning... but there is no getting away from him. A Sentimental Journey began as an account of a tour by coach through France and Italy: it ends as a treasury of dramatic sketches, pathetic and ironic incidents, philosophical musings, reminiscences, and anecdotes. 'It is perhaps the most bodiless novel ever written, as Mr Alvarez remarks in his introduction.
Nevertheless the studied artlessness of a work which was written by the dying author of Tristram Shandy forestalled by nearly two centuries those modern writers who in some ways resemble him - Joyce, Beckett, and Virginia Woolf.
THE PENGUIN ENGLISH LIBRARY
With carefully edited and annotated texts and readable introductions by modern scholars and critics, the Penguin English Library has been planned to take its place alongside the Penguin Classics and to meet the needs of both students and general readers. It will eventually include attractive and authoritative editions of the best work to have appeared in English since the fifteenth century.
The following authors are so far represented: Jane Austen, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Bunyan, Samuel Butler, Cobbett, Wilkie Collins, Defoe, Dickens, George Eliot, Fielding, Ben Jonson, Middleton, Smollett, Sterne, Swift, Tourneur, Trollope, Twain and Webster.”