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A Sentimental Education

Gustave Flaubert

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1869
Originally in
Originally in French
Pages
Pages 460

A young provincial spends twenty years chasing an older married woman through failed careers, other women and the revolution of 1848, and never wins her or quite grows up.

What he then saw was like an apparition.
A Sentimental Education, Gustave Flaubert

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