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Sentimental Education (New ed)

Flaubert, GustaveTooke, Adrianne(Introduction by)Tooke, Adrianne(Translated by)Griffith, Tom(Series edited by)
Part of the Wordsworth Classics of World Literature series
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With an Introduction and revised translation by Adrianne Tooke. Sentimental Education has been described both as the first modern novel and as a novel to end all novels.

Weaving a poignant love story into his account of the 1848 revolution, Flaubert shows a society in the grip of stereotypes, on every level.

There is something farcical in his depiction of characters who aspire to act but are dogged by cliche at every turn. To a greater extent even than Madame Bovary, Sentimental Education is an indictment of modern consumerism, contrasting the hollowness of material achievement with the lasting beauty of the ideal.

Flaubert's study of success and failure offers us a terrible sadness in a terrible beauty, yet is one of the world's great comic masterpieces.

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Wordsworth Editions Ltd
1840221216 / 9781840221213
Paperback / softback
843.8
05/12/2001
United Kingdom
480 pages
129 x 198 mm, 318 grams
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