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Sentimental Education

By Gustave Flaubert , Geoffrey Wall , Robert Baldick

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Classics
Year
2004
ISBN
0140447970, 9780140447972, 1593083068, 9781593083069
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1129183 bytes)
Series
Penguin Classics
Edition
Revised
Pages
432\0
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-04-28 18:43:47

Description

Based on Flaubert’s own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by its author as ''the moral history of the men of my generation.'' It follows the amorous adventures of Frederic Moreau, a law student who, returning home to Normandy from Paris, notices Mme Arnoux, a slender, dark woman several years older than himself. It is the beginning of an infatuation that will last a lifetime. He befriends her husband, an influential businessman, and as their paths cross and re-cross over the years, Mme Arnoux remains the constant, unattainable love of Moreau’s life. Blending love story, historical authenticity, and satire, Sentimental Education is one of the great French novels of the nineteenth century.

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