{"product_id":"sentimental-education-9780140447972","title":"Sentimental Education","description":"\u003cb\u003eOne of the great French novels of the 19th century\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased on Flaubert's own youthful passion for an older woman, \u003ci\u003eSentimental Education\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eSentimental Education\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the great French novels of the nineteenth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGustave Flaubert\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Rouen in 1821, the son of a prominent physician. A solitary child, he was attracted to literature at an early age, and after his recovery from a nervous breakdown suffered while a law student, he turned his total energies to writing. Aside from journeys to the Near East, Greece, Italy, and North Africa, and a stormy liaison with the poetess Louise Colet, his life was dedicated to the practice of his art. The form of his work was marked by intense aesthetic scrupulousness and passionate pursuit of le mot juste; its content alternately reflected scorn for French bourgeois society and a romantic taste for exotic historical subject matter. The success of Madame Bovary (1857) was ensured by government prosecution for \"immorality\"; Salammbô (1862) and The Sentimental Education (1869) received a cool public reception; not until the publication of Three Tales (1877) was his genius popularly acknowledged. Among fellow writers, however, his reputation was supreme. His circle of friends included Turgenev and the Goncourt brothers, while the young Guy de Maupassant underwent an arduous literary apprenticeship under his direction. Increasing personal isolation and financial insecurity troubled his last years. His final bitterness and disillusion were vividly evidenced in the savagely satiric Bouvard and Pécuchet, left unfinished at his death in 1880.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Baldick\u003c\/b\u003e translated many volumes from the French for Penguin Classics, including volumes by Diderot, Flaubert, and Verne, and wrote a biography of Huysmans. He died in 1972. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeoffrey Wall\u003c\/b\u003e is author of the critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eFlaubert: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e and translated\u003ci\u003e Madame Bovary\u003c\/i\u003e for Penguin Classics.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50627546743058,"sku":"9780140447972","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2dcb9315-737e-43d2-9791-e5e29b55115d.jpg?v=1732675670","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sentimental-education-9780140447972","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}