512 pages
French language
Published July 5, 1973 by Éditions Gallimard.
512 pages
French language
Published July 5, 1973 by Éditions Gallimard.
Sentimental Education (French: L'Éducation sentimentale, 1869) is a novel by Gustave Flaubert. Considered one of the most influential novels of the 19th century, it was praised by contemporaries such as George Sand and Émile Zola, but criticised by Henry James. The story focuses on the romantic life of a young man at the time of the French Revolution of 1848.