{"product_id":"sentimental-education","title":"Sentimental Education","description":"\u003cp class=\"x12ofw9d\"\u003e\u003c!--comp--\u003e\u003c!--for--\u003e\u003c!--it--\u003e\u003c!--if--\u003eFirst published in 1869, \u003c!--\/if--\u003e\u003c!--\/it--\u003e\u003c!--it--\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c!--comp--\u003e\u003c!--for--\u003e\u003c!--it--\u003e\u003c!--if--\u003eSentimental Education\u003c!--\/if--\u003e\u003c!--\/it--\u003e\u003c!--\/for--\u003e\u003c!--\/comp--\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c!--\/it--\u003e\u003c!--it--\u003e\u003c!--if--\u003e follows Frédéric Moreau, a young provincial who arrives in Paris with ambitious dreams of love, success and distinction. His life becomes shaped by his enduring, largely unfulfilled passion for Marie Arnoux, a married woman whose presence haunts his imagination, even as political upheaval and changing friendships draw him into the restless world of nineteenth-century France. Against the backdrop of the Revolution of 1848, Flaubert traces the disappointments of a generation whose romantic ideals collide with social ambition, political disillusionment and the slow passage of time. Frédéric’s story unfolds less as a conventional tale of triumph or tragedy than as an intimate portrait of opportunities missed and desires that never quite find their fulfilment.\u003c!--\/if--\u003e\u003c!--\/it--\u003e\u003c!--\/for--\u003e\u003c!--\/comp--\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!--\/it--\u003e\u003c!--it--\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"x12ofw9d\"\u003e\u003c!--comp--\u003e\u003c!--for--\u003e\u003c!--it--\u003e\u003c!--if--\u003eInitially received with considerable hostility, \u003c!--\/if--\u003e\u003c!--\/it--\u003e\u003c!--it--\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c!--comp--\u003e\u003c!--for--\u003e\u003c!--it--\u003e\u003c!--if--\u003eSentimental Education\u003c!--\/if--\u003e\u003c!--\/it--\u003e\u003c!--\/for--\u003e\u003c!--\/comp--\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c!--\/it--\u003e\u003c!--it--\u003e\u003c!--if--\u003e has since come to be recognised as one of Flaubert’s most influential achievements and a landmark of literary realism. His detached narrative voice, meticulous attention to ordinary experience and refusal to impose easy moral judgements give the novel its distinctive melancholy. Both a love story and a portrait of a society in transition, it explores the distance between youthful expectation and lived experience, while quietly exposing the compromises of bourgeois life. Its influence on later writers, particularly Marcel Proust, helped establish it as a defining novel of modern disillusionment, remarkable for its understanding of how a life can be shaped as much by what never happens as by what does.\u003c!--\/if--\u003e\u003c!--\/it--\u003e\u003c!--\/for--\u003e\u003c!--\/comp--\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!--\/it--\u003e\u003c!--it--\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"x1ll2q23 x1a4oops\"\u003e\n\u003c!--comp--\u003e\u003c!--for--\u003e\u003c!--it--\u003e\u003c!--if--\u003eFrom the book\u003c!--\/if--\u003e\u003c!--\/it--\u003e\u003c!--\/for--\u003e\u003c!--\/comp--\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c!--\/it--\u003e\u003c!--it--\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"x12ofw9d\"\u003e\u003c!--comp--\u003e\u003c!--for--\u003e\u003c!--it--\u003e\u003c!--if--\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan data-d-streaming-word=\"\"\u003e“What\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan 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