Laurence Sterne - Sentimental Journey

Published just months before his death in 1768, a Sentimental Journey is Sterne's lightly fictional account of his own European travels; and being Sterne, it is more about digressions, misunderstandings and risqué; jokes than the places he visits. Narrated by the (apparently) innocent Parson Yorick, who appeared in Sterne's other masterpiece, Tristram Shandy, it is full of anecdote and incident, and is far more about the people than the landscapes on the road from Calais. Despite the title, any sentimentality is offset by the elegance of the writing.

1) Volume 1
2) The Monk. Calais.: - Tis Very True Said I
3) Preface. in the Desobligeant.: It Must Have Been Observed
4) It Is Sufficient for My Reader
5) Calais.: I Perceived That Something Darkend the Passage
6) The Remise Door. Calais.: When I Told the Reader
7) The Snuff Box. Calais.: The Good Old Monk Was Within Six Paces
8) In the Street. Calais.: Having on the First Sight of the Lady
9) The Remise. Calais.: Monsieur Dessein Came Back
10) Montreuil.: I Had Once Lost My Portmanteau
11) Montreuil.: As la Fleur Went the Whole Tour
12) A Fragment.: - the Town of Abdera
13) The Bidet.: Having Settled All These Little Matters
14) Nampont. the Postilion.: The Concern Which the Poor Fellows Story Threw Me Into
15) The Letter. Amiens.: Fortune Had Not Smiled Upon la Fleur
16) The Letter.: Madame Je Suis Penetre de la Douleur la Plus Vive
17) Paris.: When a Man Can Contest the Point
18) The Wig. Paris.: When the Barber Came
19) The Pulse. Paris.: Hail Ye Small Sweet Courtesies of Life
20) The Husband. Paris.: I Had Counted Twenty Pulsations
21) The Gloves. Paris. : The Beautiful Grisette Rose Up
22) The Translation. Paris.: There Was Nobody in the Box
23) The Dwarf. Paris.: I Had Never Heard the Remark Made
24) The Rose. Paris.: It Was Now My Turn to Ask
25) Volume 2 - the Fille de Chambre. Paris.: What the Old French Officer Had Delivered
26) The Passport. Paris.: When I Got Home to My Hotel
27) The Passport. the Hotel at Paris.: I Could Not Find in My Heart
28) The Captive. Paris.: The Bird in His Cage Pursued Me
29) The Address. Versailles.: I Should Not Like to Have My Enemy Take a View
30) Le Patissier. Versailles.: Before I Had Got Half Way Down the Street
31) The Sword. Rennes.: When States and Empires Have Their Periods of Declension
32) The Passport. Versailles.: I Found No Difficulty in Getting Admittance
33) The Passport. Versailles.: There Is Not a More Perplexing Affair in Life to Me
34) The Passport. Versailles.: As the Passport Was Directed to All Lieutenant-Governors
35) The Temptation. Paris.: When I Alighted at the Hotel
36) The Conquest.: Yes - and Then -
37) The Case of Conscience. Paris.: I Was Immediately Followed Up By the Master
38) Le Dimanche. Paris.: It Was Sunday; and When la Fleur Came in
39) The Fragment. Paris.: - Now As the Notarys Wife Disputed
40) The Fragment and the Bouquet. Paris.: When la Fleur Came Up Close to the Table
41) The Riddle Explained. Paris.: I Stepped Hastily After Him
42) Maria. Moulines.: I Never Felt What the Distress of Plenty Was
43) Maria. Moulines.: Though I Hate Salutations and Greetings
44) The Grace.: When Supper Was Over the Old Man
45) The Lady Was a Piedmontese of About Thirty