Sentimental Education

In this story, of a young man's romantic attachment to an older woman, the modern English listener can appreciate the accuracy, the artistry and the insight which Flaubert reconstructed in one masterpiece.

Gustave Flaubert (1821—1880), the younger son of a provincial doctor, briefly studied law before devoting himself to writing, with limited success during his lifetime. After the publication of Madame Bovary in 1857, he was prosecuted for offending public morals.

Geoffrey Wall teaches at the University of York, translated Flaubert's Selected Letters and Madame Bovary for Penguin Classics, and is the author of Flaubert: A Life.

Robert Baldick translated many volumes from the French for Penguin Classics.