Travels Through France and Italy Paperback - 1997
by Tobias Smollett; Introduction by Osbert Sitwell
Writer Tobias Smollett set off on a journey through France and Italy to relieve a low period in his life. Promising to keep records of inns, prices, and methods of transport for friends who might wish to make the journey, he wrote faithfully. Filled with prejudice, grousing, sharp observation, and caustic satire, Smollett's writings go beyond simple information to become one of the first travelogues to reflect the writer's state of mind.
From the rear cover
"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, who had asked him to keep records of inns, prices, and methods of transport should they wish to make the tour themselves someday. Smollett more than obliged them, and the result is this fascinating, wholeheartedly personal account of places and people in France and Italy. In one of the letters, Smollett makes his famous forecast that France would be in trouble as soon as a weak monarch came to power; in another he recommends the Roman Campania be drained and cultivated - a recommendation that was carried out in the Pontine Marshes in 1932-34. But Smollett is at his best when describing the inns and housekeepers, postilions and travelers. 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.
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- Title Travels Through France and Italy
- Author Tobias Smollett; Introduction by Osbert Sitwell
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 303
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Marlboro Press, Evanston (IL),
- Date 1997-10
- ISBN 9780810160538 / 0810160536
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.88 in (21.08 x 13.46 x 2.24 cm)
- Reading level 1300
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Themes
- Cultural Region: French
- Library of Congress subjects Italy - Description and travel, France - Description and travel
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97029551
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Citations
- New York Times, 12/07/1997, Page 56
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