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A Sentimental Education

Written by: Gustave Flaubert
Narrated by: Jonathan Fried
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Frederic Moreau is a law student returning home to Normandy from Paris when he first notices Mme. Arnoux, a slender, dark woman several years older than himself. It is the beginning of an infatuation that will last a lifetime. He befriends her husband, an influential businessman, and their paths cross and re-cross over the years. Through financial upheaval, political turmoil, and countless affairs, Mme. Arnoux remains the constant, unattainable love of Moreau's life. Based on Flaubert's own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education blends love story, historical authenticity, and satire to create one of the greatest French novels of the nineteenth century.

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… book in both formats. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find in the ebook format by the same translator as in the audio one. Therefore I could compare both by its fluency and literary quality. And definitely, audio translation was superior to the ebook translation. It was more poetic and imaginative than the ebook translation. Otherwise, the whole book is fascinating reading and reminds us that a human nature is the same and nothing changes in our stragglers to live our lives in whatever time we are.

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