{"product_id":"sentimental-education-9780486452333","title":"Sentimental Education","description":"\"I want to write the moral history of the men of my generation--or, more accurately, the history of their feelings,\" declared Gustave Flaubert, who envisioned \"a book about love, about passion; but passion such as can exist nowadays--that is to say, inactive.\" First published in 1869, this novel fulfills Flaubert's conception with a realistic, ironic portrait of bourgeois lives played out against France's tumultuous revolution of 1848 and the founding of its Second Empire.\u003cbr\u003eFr d ric Moreau, a law student in Paris, dreams of achieving success in art, business, journalism, and politics. His aspirations take a romantic turn upon a chance encounter with a married woman, who inspires a lifelong obsession. Fr d ric befriends his idol's husband, an influential art dealer, and quickly finds himself seduced by society life--and bedeviled by financial problems, ideological conflicts, and betrayals of trust. Blending romance, historical authenticity, and satire, Flaubert's \u003ci\u003eSentimental Education\u003c\/i\u003e ranks among the nineteenth century's great novels.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dover Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780486452333\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 358\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.28h x 6.38w x 0.92d","brand":"Gustave Flaubert","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36637821632668,"sku":"9780486452333","price":4.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_d95ac875-27dc-4e27-9b21-66b25e00c388.jpg?v=1603845765","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/sentimental-education-9780486452333","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}