Sentimental Education

By (author): "Geoffrey Wall, Robert Baldick, Gustave Flaubert"
Publish Date: April 15th 1869
Sentimental Education
ISBN0140447970
ISBN139780140447972
AsinSentimental Education
CharactersFrédéric Moreau, Mme Arnoux, Marthe Arnoux, Charles Deslauriers, Mme D
Original titleL'Éducation sentimentale
Based on Flaubert’s own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by its author as “the moral history of the men of my generation.” It follows the amorous adventures of Frederic Moreau, a law student who, returning home to Normandy from Paris, 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 as their paths cross and re-cross over the years, Mme Arnoux remains the constant, unattainable love of Moreau’s life. Blending love story, historical authenticity, and satire, Sentimental Education is one of the great French novels of the nineteenth century.