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Bouvard and Pecuchet with The Dictionary of Received Ideas (Penguin Classics) (Reprint Edition) by Gustave Flaubert, A. J. Krailsheimer (Translator), Alban J. Krailsheimer Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1976 ISBN-10: 0-14-044320-7 / 0140443207 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-044320-2 / 9780140443202 Bouvard and Pécuchet 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 1880, Flaubert attempted to encompass his lifelong preoc |