![]() ![]() Based on his own unrequited love for an older woman, Sentimental Education is one of the greatest French novels of the nineteenth century. ![]() Flaubert described his sweeping story of a young man's passions, ambitions and amours as 'the moral history of the men of my generation'. Through financial upheaval, political turmoil and countless affairs, Mme Arnoux remains the constant, unattainable love of Moreau's life. He befriends her husband, influential businessman Jacques Arnoux, and their paths cross and re-cross over the years. It is the beginning of an infatuation that will last a lifetime. Part love story, part historical novel, part satire, and an evocative tale youthful passion, Gustave Flaubert's A Sentimental Education is translated by Robert Baldick and revised with an introduction by Geoffrey Wall in Penguin Classics.įrederic 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. ![]()
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