Sentimental Education (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780486452333)

I want to write the moral history of the men of my generation--or, more accurately, the history of their feelings, declared Gustave Flaubert, who envisioned a book about love, about passion; but passion such as can exist nowadays--that is to say, inactive. First published in 1869, this novel fulfills Flaubert's conception with a realistic, ironic portrait of bourgeois lives played out against France's tumultuous revolution of 1848 and the founding of its Second Empire.
Fr馘駻ic Moreau, a law student in Paris, dreams of achieving success in art, business, journalism, and politics. His aspirations take a romantic turn upon a chance encounter with a married woman, who inspires a lifelong obsession. Fr馘駻ic befriends his idol's husband, an influential art dealer, and quickly finds himself seduced by society life--and bedeviled by financial problems, ideological conflicts, and betrayals of trust. Blending romance, historical authenticity, and satire, Flaubert's Sentimental Education ranks among the nineteenth century's great novels.

Author: Gustave Flaubert
ISBN-10: 0486452336
ISBN-13: 9780486452333
Publisher: Dover Publications
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2006
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.28h x 6.38w x 0.92d