# Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris

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- Book: [Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-brooks/flaubert-in-the-ruins-of-paris) ([Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-brooks/flaubert-in-the-ruins-of-paris.md))
- Authors: [Peter Brooks](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-brooks)
- Publisher: basic_books
- ISBN: 978-04-6509-602-2
- Published: 2017-04-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

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.