The First Sentimental Education (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520357099)

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.

Author: Gustave Flaubert
ISBN-10: 0520357094
ISBN-13: 9780520357099
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 08/27/2021
Pages: 311
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d