The novel opens at a time and place that is nearly but not quite exact - 'the 15th of September, 1840, about six o'clock' - typical of what follows in this narrative that constantly zooms in on small details, yet also sweeps broadly and quickly over a great deal. Sentimental Education centers on Frédéric Moreau - a: 'long-haired youth of eighteen' at the beginning of the story. We acknowledge (and remind and warn you) that they may, in fact, be entirely unrepresentative of the actual reviews by any other measure. Similarly the illustrative quotes chosen here are merely those the complete review subjectively believes represent the tenor and judgment of the review as a whole. Please note that these ratings solely represent the complete review 's biased interpretation and subjective opinion of the actual reviews and do not claim to accurately reflect or represent the views of the reviewers.

The stripping of illusions is remorseless, but so much else is spirited away at the same time.' - R.D.Charques, Times Literary Supplement (.) The contemporary reader, despite all the admiration he feels, will be as little inclined to warm to it as were the run of readers in the France of seventy years ago. 'Flaubert's realism in L'Éducation sentimentale, with its anatomy of a social epoch and its lament for the incompleteness of human relationships, is in fact a classic mould of realism of the advanced variety.'The charm to which all readers of this novel are responsive, even such as are indifferent or antagonistic to its drift and content, lies in in the appeal it makes to the eye.' - Desmond MacCarthy, Sunday Times.Geoffrey Wall, 2004) Perdita Burlingame (1974) Douglas Parmée (1989) Helen Constantine (2016)ī+ : something of a train wreck of a story (content- and style-wise), but does gather compelling momentum

Translations into English include: 1904 (anonymous) D.F.Hannigan (1898) Anthony Goldsmith (1941) Robert Baldick (1964 rev.

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