Bouvard and pecuchet : A tragi-comic novel of bourgeois life / Gustave Flaubert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flaubert, Gustave, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cleveland : The Floating Press, 2016.

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Summary:

In this satirical novel from renowned French author Gustave Flaubert, two Paris-dwelling clerks, François Bouvard and Juste Pécuchet, have a chance encounter one day and instantly become the best of friends. When Bouvard comes into some family money, the two chums decide to pull up stakes and move to the country to pursue a life of intellectual inquiry. But after plowing through much of the world's literature, poetry, and scientific documentation, the pair grow disenchanted.

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ISBN:

9781776670727

9781776670710

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