Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A genuine masterpiece

I have kept a copy of this translation of "Sentimental Education" by my beside for 20 years and have read the book at least six times. It really is a masterpiece. Flaubert's lucid prose makes it easy for the reader to imagine that he/she is in the Paris of the 1840s. I leave it to others to decide what Frederick Moreau's gradual loss of idealism says about human nature. This novel is in many ways an epic poem, so sonorous and beautiful are the descriptions. And it is also a great story. I consider this the best novel ever written, even better than Flaubert's other masterpiece, "Madame Bovary."