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Stanje: | Polovan bez oštećenja |
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Godina izdanja: Ostalo
ISBN: Ostalo
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani
U dobrom stanju. Zaštitna kutija popustila i ojačana arhivskom trakom (slike).
Folio Society First Impression No. 458
Publisher Folio Society, London; 1979
Quarter Black Cloth Hardback, 276 pp
Contemporary portraits & prints
Size 250 x 160mm, 1kg
Travels Through France & Italy by Tobias Smollett
The text of Smollett`s 1766 `Travels` taken from the last edition corrected by him at the time of his death. Smollett undertook the tour in 1763 after the death of his daughter. The work is rich in detail as Smollett travels the coast of the French & Italian Rivieras.
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Travels Through France and Italy is travel literature by Tobias Smollett, published in 1766. Smollett used the opportunity to deride the social norms of the Kingdom of France and the Italian Peninsula, and to voice his Anti-Catholicism. The book inspired a reply in the novel A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768) by Laurence Sterne, which contained a satirical depiction of Smollett as Smelfungus.
In April 1763, the 15-year-old Elizabeth Smollett died. She was the only known child of Tobias Smollett. In June 1763, Tobias left England with his wife. The couple travelled across the Kingdom of France to Nice. In the autumn of 1764, Smollett visited Genoa, Rome, Florence and other towns of the Italian Peninsula. After staying in Nice for the winter, Smollett returned to London by June 1765. Travels Through France and Italy is his account of this journey.
Smollett describes in great detail the natural phenomena, history, social life, economics, diet and morals of the places he visited. Smollett had a lively and pertinacious curiosity, and, as his novels prove, a very quick eye. He foresaw the merits of Cannes, then a small village, as a health resort, and the possibilities of the Corniche road.
The writing is often characterized by spleen, acerbity and quarrelsomeness. Smollett quarrels with innkeepers, postilions and fellow travellers, and holds many (though by no means all) foreigners who he meets in contempt. He voices his own Anti-Catholicism, and derides duelling, petty and proud nobility, such domestic arrangements as the cicisbeo (an `approved` lover of a married woman), and many other French and Italian customs.