The Education of Feelings

The story of gaining life wisdom through the brutal process of gradually losing all illusions – is one of the favorite themes of French psychological realism literature. However, few have managed to express this theme as deeply, intelligently, and ironically as Flaubert did in his brilliant novel The Education of Feelings. Young Frédéric Moreau, who dreams of becoming a writer and is secretly and hopelessly in love with the beautiful Madame Arnoux, who is married and faithful to her undeserving scoundrel of a husband, is set to embark on a long and difficult journey from youthful idealism, purity, and naivety to a cold understanding of how this world actually works – and this life experience will be bitter not only for him but also for quite a number of women who had the misfortune to give him their hearts...