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Sentimental Education Volume 2

Author
Gustave Flaubert
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
240 pages
ISBN
9781911429296
Published
15 May 2016
Imprint
Egoist Press
  • Flaubert
  • France
  • romance
  • feelings
  • sex
  • family
  • erotica
  • modernism
  • emotional health
  • mental health

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The novel describes the life of a young man living through the revolution of 1848 and the founding of the Second French Empire, and his love for an older woman. Flaubert based many of the protagonist's experiences including the romantic passion on his own life. 'I want to write the moral history of the men of my generation—or, more accurately, the history of their feelings. It's a book about love, about passion; but passion such as can exist nowadays—that is to say, inactive.'

Author

Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary (1857), his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics. The celebrated writer Guy de Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert.

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