Sentimental Education Chapter 1 - A Promising Pupil

from The Gustave Flaubert Library · host Gustave Flaubert

In which the young Frederick Moreau embarks on a contemplative river journey from Paris to his provincial home, encountering the vibrant and mysterious Arnoux family aboard the steamboat, amid the ebb and flow of social diversities and the gentle passage of landscape. His thoughts, touched by a burgeoning yearning and the mundane duties awaiting him, linger on the alluring figures he meets and the shadowed prospects of his impending future.

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