For Oxford World's Classics he has edited translations of Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality and Confessions, Constant's Adolphe, and Balzac's The Wild Ass's Skin.Gustave Flaubert conceived Sentimental Education, his final complete novel, as the history of his own generation, one that failed to fulfill the promise of the Revolution of 1848. He has published widely on French literature and his books include Anger, Gratitude, and the Enligtenment Writer (OUP, 2011). Patrick Coleman has taught at UCLA since 1975. From 2003-12 she was co-editor of the international magazine Modern Poetry in Translation. Her translations include Paris Tales (OUP, 2004), French Tales (OUP, 2008), Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons (Penguin, 2007), Gautier, Mademoiselle de Maupin (Penguin, 2005), and for Oxford World'sĬlassics, Balzac, The Wild Ass's Skin (OUP, 2012) and Zola, The Conquest of Plassans (OUP, 2014). She is now a full-time translator and editor. Helen Constantine was Head of Modern Languages at Bartholomew School near Oxford before retiring from teaching in 2000. Helen Constantine, Freelance translator, and Edited by Patrick Coleman, University of California, Los Angeles The edition includes extensive explanatory notes, an Historical Sketch clarifying the relation between the sequence of fictional and historical events, a Glossary of Historical Figures and an up-to-date bibliography.Patrick Coleman's introduction incorporates recent research into the genesis of Flaubert's novel as well as current critical interest in the fictional representation of historical events and Flaubert's place in the history of literary modernism.Helen Constantine's translation is faithful and eminently readable.Flaubert's experiments with form and narrative techniques inspired modernist writers in particular, and inspired the later experiments of Proust and Joyce.Fr'ed'eric Moreau's abortive search for fulfilment through love, art, and politics has new things to say in today's postmodern, ostensibly post-ideological age

Flaubert's portrait of an idealistic but indecisive protagonist suggests that in a disenchanted bourgeois world heroism can only be imagined in ironic terms.

A new translation of one of the most important of all French novels, admired for its artistry and its impact on the history of the genre.

Flaubert's portrait of an idealist in a disenchanted world influenced later modernists, and is here newly translated.

With his first glimpse of Madame Arnoux, Frédéric Moreau is convinced he has found his romantic destiny, but he is caught up in the revolution of 1848 and the attractions of three other women.

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