Sentimental education

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The work Sentimental education represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Label

Sentimental education

Statement of responsibility

Gustave Flaubert ; translated by Robert Baldick

Creator

• trueFlaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880

Contributor

• trueWall, Geoffrey, 1950-
• trueBaldick, Robert

Subject

• true19th century -- 1801 -- 1900
• Classical fiction
• trueDisillusionment in men
• trueFrance -- History -- February Revolution, 1848
• Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
• trueMarried women
• Unrequited love -- France | Paris -- Fiction
• trueYoung men
• Wives -- France | Paris -- Fiction
• trueAlienation in men
• trueIdealism
• trueTranslations -- French to English
• Young men -- France | Paris -- Fiction
• trueFlaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Paris (France) -- History -- June Days, 1848 -- Fiction
• France -- History -- February Revolution, 1848 -- Fiction
• trueClassics
• trueParis, France -- Social life and customs -- 19th century

Genre

• Fiction
• trueCriticism and interpretation
• trueTranslations
• trueClassics
• Classical fiction

Language

• eng
• fre
• eng

Summary

• "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, an influential businessman, 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 youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education blends love story, historical authenticity and satire to create one of the greatest French novels of the nineteenth century."
• "Geoffrey Wall's fresh revision of Robert Baldick's original translation is accompanied by a new introduction discussing the personal and historical influences on Flaubert's writing. This edition also contains a new chronology, further reading and explanatory notes."--BOOK JACKET

Member of

• trueEducation sentimentale
• Education sentimentale
• truePenguin classics

Storyline

• trueCharacter-driven

Tone

• trueStrong sense of place

Cataloging source

NOV

Index

no index present

Language note

Translated from the French

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Penguin classics

Target audience

adult