{"product_id":"sentimental-education-1","title":"Sentimental Education","description":"\"I want to write the moral history of the men of my generation--or, more accurately, the history of their feelings,\" declared Gustave Flaubert, who envisioned \"a book about love, about passion; but passion such as can exist nowadays--that is to say, inactive.\" First published in 1869, this novel fulfills Flaubert's conception with a realistic, ironic portrait of bourgeois lives played out against France's tumultuous revolution of 1848 and the founding of its Second Empire.\u003cbr\u003eFrédéric Moreau, a law student in Paris, dreams of achieving success in art, business, journalism, and politics. His aspirations take a romantic turn upon a chance encounter with a married woman, who inspires a lifelong obsession. Frédéric befriends his idol's husband, an influential art dealer, and quickly finds himself seduced by society life--and bedeviled by financial problems, ideological conflicts, and betrayals of trust. Blending romance, historical authenticity, and satire, Flaubert's \u003ci\u003eSentimental Education\u003c\/i\u003e ranks among the nineteenth century's great novels.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67537026875624,"sku":"9780486452333","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0810\/9539\/3512\/files\/imageloader_b93d83c7-3f1b-47fe-8523-0895d6a4e229.jpg?v=1790365046","url":"https:\/\/shop.kuumba.app\/products\/sentimental-education-1","provider":"Kuumba","version":"1.0","type":"link"}