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Set against the backdrop of the 1848 Revolution, A Sentimental Education is the story of young lawyer Frédéric Moreau's infatuation with the demurely exotic Madame Arnoux.
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Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen in 1821. Aside from his travels, and a stormy liaison with the poetess Louise Colet, his life was dedicated to the practice of his art. The success of Madame Bovary (1857) was ensured by government prosecution for "immorality"; Salammbô (1862) and A Sentimental Education (1869) received a cool public reception; not until the publication of Three Tales (1877) was his genius popularly acknowledged. His final bitterness and disillusion were vividly evidenced in the savagely satiric Bouvard and Pécuchet, left unfinished at his death in 1880.
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On the morning of 15 September 1840 the Ville de Montereau was lying alongside the quai Saint-Bernard* belching clouds of smoke, all ready to sail. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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On the morning of 15 September 1840 the Ville de Montereau was lying alongside the quai Saint-Bernard* belching clouds of smoke, all ready to sail. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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28 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
"The Sentimental Education" is an absolutely brilliant novel. That Flaubert's most famous and most highly regarded novel is "Madame Bovary" is astounding to me. That novel has many failings, whereas "Education" has none. The writing is the best you'll ever read, the story is touching and deep and rich, the charcters wonderfully drawn. And the last paragraph in the novel is both hilarious and endearing, and makes it a novel that is brilliant to the very last word. I can not recommend this novel highly enough. It is somewhat of an overlooked masterpiece (overshadowed by the lesser "Bovary"). One critic said that the reason "Forrest Gump" (the movie version) did so well was that "it dealt wonderfully with unrequited love, something we can all relate to." Well, "Education" is about unrequited love, and it deals with it with 100 times the power that "Forrest Gump" did. The novel also includes a revolution and the Parisian social world. "THE SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION" HAS EVERYTHING!!! When Woody Allen listed the "things that make me happy to live," one of the things he listed was "`The Sentimental Education' by Gustave Flaubert."
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I used to have a copy of this in a very dull cover in my library, which I kept meaning to read, and finally took to the charity bookshop unread. But thanks to the attraction of a good cover, and my good experience of OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS, and my affection for Flaubert, I re-bought it in this edition, and although still in the middle of it, am enjoying a long, slow, appreciative read.
This book satisfactorily fills in the period between Stendhal and Chateaubriand and the later worlds of Huysmans and Maupassant, differing greatly from Balzac. Although published in 1869, it is set in the 1840s. It is written in a curiously deliberate naive, almost awkward style which gives it the feeling of not being written by a real writer at all, but by the young man whose indecisive story it tells. This style makes it easy to read, and brings the reader nearer to the concerns it describes.
This book satisfactorily fills in the period between Stendhal and Chateaubriand and the later worlds of Huysmans and Maupassant, differing greatly from Balzac. Although published in 1869, it is set in the 1840s. It is written in a curiously deliberate naive, almost awkward style which gives it the feeling of not being written by a real writer at all, but by the young man whose indecisive story it tells. This style makes it easy to read, and brings the reader nearer to the concerns it describes.
13 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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I agree with a reviewer before me that this masterpiece is overshadowed by Bovary and, for the life of me, I can't understand why. The main character is better, Emma Bovary's complaints do little to outshine Frederic Moreau's idle lifestyle. It's wonderful--the language, the descriptions and, most of all, the way in which Flaubert can make the reader see how utterly wretched the "upper class" lifestyle is. Excellent, from beginning to end.
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Lacklustre characters, sleaze and tedium.
Admittedly this reviewer hasn't read the whole book, having foundered halfway and glossed over most of the remainder. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Molly Marsden
An epic, a lifetime in a book!
This is an amazing book, probably the best epic I have ever read. I started off hating Federic the protagonist of the story. Read more
Published on 15 May 2009 by PS BHAKAR
Dated Period Piece or Classic Tragedy?
Depending on your perspective, this book is hopelessly dated and has little relevance to today, is an important step forward in the French novel, or is a classic depiction of... Read more
Published on 19 May 2004 by Donald Mitchell
Flaubert at His Best
To real Flaubertians, this novel ranks slightly above Madame Bovary. It's the true apogee of French and arguably, World Lit, at least so far as the novel is concerned. Read more
Published on 24 July 2003 by Bruce Kendall
An education indeed
Good stuff Flaubert, well exceptional really. Poetic meanderings and vivid focus to detail capturing the essence of the time allow this novel to transcend untouched in a certain... Read more
Published on 25 April 2000
A Great French Historical Novel
"L'éducation sentimentale" is by all means the
greatest French novel I have ever read. Read more
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Published on 7 Jun 1997
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