A fresh and vivid translation of Flaubert's influential bildungsroman

Gustave Flaubert conceived Sentimental Education, his final complete novel, as the history of his own generation, one that failed to fulfill the promise of the Revolution of 1848. Published a few months before the start of the 1870 Franco–Prussian War, it offers both a sweeping panorama of French society over three decades and an intimate bildungsroman

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A personalidade literária de Flaubert, dotada de um agudo senso crítico que o distanciou do exaltado gosto romântico da época, levou-o a tornar-se um dos maiores prosadores da França no século XIX. O romance "Madame Bovary", a sua obra-prima, levou cinco anos a escrever e deu origem a um processo judicial no qual o autor apenas conseguiu escapar à prisão graças à habilidade da defesa, que transformou a acusação de imoralidade na proclamação...

When two copy clerks inherit a fortune, they embark on a new life as professional dilettantes in the unfinished novel by the author of Madame Bovary. First conceived in 1863 and left unfinished at his death in 1880, Bouvard and Pécuchet was to be Gustave Flaubert's masterpiece. It tells the story of two Parisian copy clerks, François Bouvard and Juste Pécuchet, who become fast friends. When Bouvard inherits a fortune, their lives are transformed....

Nach einer enttäuschten Liebe arbeitet das arme fromme Landmädchen Félicité als Magd auf dem Gut der Madame Aubain. Als die kleine Tochter der Witwe und Félicités junger Neffe sterben, verwandelt sich die Beziehung der beiden Frauen in eine innige Freundschaft. Mit dem Tod ihrer Herrin sieht Félicité einem ungewissen Schicksal entgegen ...

FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE (1821–1880), French novelist, was born at Rouen on the 12th of December 1821. His father, of whom many traits are reproduced in Flaubert's character of Charles Bovary, was a surgeon in practice at Rouen; his mother was connected with some of the oldest Norman families. He was educated in his native city, and did not leave it until 1840, when he came up to Paris to study law. He is said to have been idle at school, but to have been...