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100 1 _aFlaubert, Gustave,
_d1821-1880
245 1 0 _aBouvard and Pécuchet: A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life, part 1
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2008
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouvard_et_P%C3%A9cuchet
500 _aRelease date is 2008-04-07
508 _aProduced by Thierry Alberto, Henry Craig and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aFrance -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
653 _aFrench fiction -- Translations into English
653 _aMiddle class -- France -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
653 _aMiddle class -- France -- Retirement -- Fiction
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25014
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