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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 first pub 1881 (view 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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Community Reviews

3.65
based on 241 reviews

Moods

challenging: 80%

funny: 80%

reflective: 80%

adventurous: 40%

informative: 40%

dark: 20%

emotional: 20%

lighthearted: 20%

sad: 20%

tense: 20%


Pace

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80% of readers chose slow
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Plot or character driven?

25% of readers chose A mix
75% of readers chose Character
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Character

Strong character development?

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25% of readers chose Complicated
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Loveable characters?

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25% of readers chose No
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Diverse cast of characters?

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