Bibliograph

Sentimental education, Gustave Flaubert ; translated by Robert Baldick

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Sentimental education, Gustave Flaubert ; translated by Robert Baldick

Language

eng

Bibliography note

"Further reading": pages [xxxi]

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Sentimental education

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Gustave Flaubert ; translated by Robert Baldick

Review

"Frederic Moreau is a law student returning home to Normandy from Paris when he first 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 their paths cross and re-cross over the years. Through financial upheaval, political turmoil and countless affairs, Mme Arnoux remains the constant, unattainable love of Moreau's life. Flaubert described his sweeping story of a young man's passions, ambitions and amours as 'the moral history of the men of my generation'. Based on his own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education blends love story, historical authenticity and satire to create one of the greatest French novels of the nineteenth century." "Geoffrey Wall's fresh revision of Robert Baldick's original translation is accompanied by a new introduction discussing the personal and historical influences on Flaubert's writing. This edition also contains a new chronology, further reading and explanatory notes."--BOOK JACKET

Series statement

Penguin classics

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