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The First Sentimental Education

By Gustave Flaubert

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9780520340107
DOI
10.1525/9780520340107
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15442050 bytes)
Edition
Reprint 2019
Pages
311\331
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 17:09:00

Description

The protagonist, Frederic Moreau, and his beloved, Mme Arnoux, are based on Flaubert's youthful infatuation with an older married woman. Frederic's puppy love for Mme Arnoux is at first steadfast and idealistic, and she remains faithful to her rather frivolous husband. Frederic's love ends in disillusionment, as do the subsequent passions of his life. His youthful ambitions lead to failure and boredom, and his idealistic views of social progress are disappointed by reality. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.

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