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Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris
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Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris

by Peter Brooks

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Hardcover / ISBN-13: 9780465096022

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Genre: Humanities / History / Regional & National History / European History

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In 1869, Gustave Flaubert published what he considered to be his masterwork novel, A Sentimental Education, which told a deeply human and deeply pessimistic story of the 1848 revolutions. The book was a critical and commercial flop. Flaubert was devastated.