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The Dictionary of Received Ideas by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Quirky Classics
A spoof encyclopedia of contemporary accepted wisdom and commonplaces, the Dictionary of Received Ideas sees Flaubert at his witty and satirical best. Perhaps intended as a companion to his final, unfinished novel Bouvard and Pecuchet, this compilation was the result of a lifetime of collecting the absu ...Show more
The Dictionary of Received Ideas by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: New Hardbacks
Perhaps intended as a companion to the author's final, unfinished novel "Bouvard and Pecuchet", this compilation was the result of a lifetime of collecting the absurd and the cliched, and providing darkly humorous explanations. It offers an insightful and playful look at nineteenth-century values and ta ...Show more
The Letters of Gustave Flaubert by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Biography & Memoir
"If there is one article of faith that dominates the Credo of Gustave Flaubert's correspondence," Francis Steegmuller writes in the introduction to this selection of Flaubert's letters, "it is that the function of great art is not to provide 'answers.'" The Letters of Gustave Flaubert is above all a rec ...Show more
Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In each of three short stories--"Herodias," "The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitator," and "A Simple Heart"--Gustave Flaubert studies the nature of humanity and spirituality with his characteristically sharp eye. A loyal servant dies alone, having served her masters all her life without complaining of ...Show more