Bouvard and Pecuchet: With the Dictionary of Received Ideas by Gustave Flaubert

Bouvard and Pecuchet: With the Dictionary of Received Ideas

Gustave Flaubert with A. J. Krailsheimer (Translator)

336 pages missing pub info (editions)

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Bouvard and P cuchet are two Chaplinesque copy-clerks who meet on a park bench in Paris. Following an unexpected inheritance, they decide to give up their jobs and explore the world of ideas. In this, his last novel, unfinished on his death in 18...

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funny 100%
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