A young man's passion for an older married woman drifts across the failures of a generation and the 1848 revolution. Flaubert's great novel of disillusion.
Books mentioned in Sentimental Education (6)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes: “And the _Don Quixote_ of which we coloured the engravings together?" "I have it still!"”
Fables by Pierre Lachambeaudie: “a little mahogany bookcase containing the _Fables of Lachambeaudie_, the _Mysteries of Paris_, and Norvins' _Napoleon_”
The Mysteries of Paris by Eugène Sue: “He wanted to learn the shoe-trick, in order to visit the thieves' taverns of the city, like Rodolphe in the _Mysteries of Paris_”
Histoire de Napoléon by Jacques de Norvins: “a little mahogany bookcase containing the _Fables of Lachambeaudie_, the _Mysteries of Paris_, and Norvins' _Napoleon_”
The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis: “a copy of the _Revue des Deux Mondes_ which was lying on the table between an _Imitation_ and an _Almanach de Gotha_”
Les Caractères by Jean de La Bruyère: “There's the best of La Bruyere's characters!”
Books that mention Sentimental Education (5)
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald: “sitting in his apartment trying to read "L'Education Sentimental"”
Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes: “Besides, I remember the end of L'Education sentimentale. Frédéric and his companion Deslauriers are looking back over their lives.”
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose: “Something similar happens in the first chapter of Gustave Flaubert's Sentimental Education.”
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist by Orhan Pamuk: “In my youth, I trained myself by reading such books (Flaubert's Sentimental Education, Mann's Magic Mountain)”
Whistler by Ann Patchett: “she read A Sentimental Education for fun”