Bouvard and Pécuchet: A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life, part 1
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Bouvard and Pécuchet: A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life, part 1

by Gustave Flaubert

"Bouvard and Pécuchet: A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life, part 1" by Gustave Flaubert is an unfinished satirical novel published in 1881. Two Parisian copy-clerks meet by chance and become inseparable friends. When one inherits a fortune, they move to the French countryside and embark on an ambitious quest for knowledge. Over years, they attempt to master nearly every field—agriculture, science, literature, philosophy, religion—but each endeavor ends in failure. Their misadventures expose the hidden weaknesses of human understanding while alienating them from their provincial neighbors. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 72.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Originally issued 2008-04-07. Transcribed by Produced by Thierry Alberto, Henry Craig and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. This work is in the public domain in the United States. Sourced from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25014).
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Bouvard and Pécuchet: A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life, part 1

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