Sentimental Education Av Gustave Flaubert

<p>Part love story, part historical novel, part satire, and an evocative tale youthful passion, Gustave Flaubert''s <i>A Sentimental Education</i> is translated by Robert Baldick and revised with an introduction by Geoffrey Wall in Penguin Classics.<br><br>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 <i>amours </i>as ''the moral history of the men of my generation''. Based on his own unrequited love for an older woman, <i>Sentimental Education</i> is one of the greatest French n