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Travels Through France and Italy
Tobias Smollett · 1766 · Travel
In forty-one vivid letters, Tobias Smollett traces a demanding journey from England through France and Italy, observing roads, inns, landscapes, customs and the everyday realities of eighteenth-century travel.
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This edition
- Title
- Travels Through France and Italy
- Author
- Tobias Smollett (1721–1771)
- First published
- 1766
- Illustrated plates
- 72 original artworks · 16 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 41 · about 121,114 words
- Reading time
- 8 h 4 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- August 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #2311
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