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Sentimental Education (Paperback, Revised ed)
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Sentimental Education (Paperback, Revised ed)
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Loot Price R235
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You Save R54 (19%)
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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. 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, influential businessman
Jacques Arnoux, 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 unrequited love for an
older woman, Sentimental Education is one of the greatest French
novels of the nineteenth century. Geoffrey Wall's fresh revision of
Robert Baldick's original translation is accompanied by an
insightful new introduction discussing the personal and historical
influences on Flaubert's writing. This edition also contains a new
chronology, further reading and explanatory notes. Gustave Flaubert
(1821-1880) was born in Rouen. After illness interrupted a career
in law, he retired to live with his widowed mother and devote
himself to writing. Madame Bovary won instant acclaim upon book
publication in 1857, but Flaubert's frank display of adultery in
bourgeois France saw him go on trial for immorality, only narrowly
escaping conviction. Both Salammbo (1862) and The Sentimental
Education (1869) were poorly received, and Flaubert achieved
limited success in his own lifetime - but his fame and reputation
grew steadily after his death. If you enjoyed A Sentimental
Education, you may also enjoy Stephen Vizinczey's In Praise of
Older Women, available in Penguin Modern Classics.
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