Part love story, part historical novel, part satire, and an evocative tale youth
ful passion, Gustave Flaubert's A "Sentimental Education" is translated by Rober
t Baldick and revised with an introduction by Geoffrey Wall in "Penguin Classics
". Frederic Moreau is a law student returning home to Normandy from Paris when h
e first notices Mme Arnoux, a slender, dark woman several years older than himse
lf. It is the beginning of an infatuation that will last a lifetime.