{"product_id":"9781605017044","title":"Bouvard and Pecuchet","description":"Bouvard and Pecuchet are two Chaplinesque copy-clerks who meet on a park bench in Paris.  Following an unexpected inheritence, they decide to give up their jobs and explore the world of ideas.  \u003cp\u003eIn this, his last novel, unfinished on his death in 1880, Flaubert attempted to encompass his lifelong preoccupation with bourgeois stupidity and his disgust at the banalties of intellectual life in France.  Into it he poured all his love of detail, his delight in the life of the mind, his despair of human nature and his pleasure in passionate friendship.  The result is 'a kind of encyclopedia made into farce,' wholly grotesque and wholly original, in the spirit of \u003ci\u003eGargantua and Pantagruel, Don Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eUlysses.\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition includes the \u003ci\u003eDictionary of Received Ideas,\u003c\/i\u003e which was intended to follow \u003ci\u003eBouvard and Pecuchet\u003c\/i\u003e as part of a second volume.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MobileReference","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47138718646512,"sku":"9781605017044","price":0.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781605017044_p0.jpg?v=1763828659","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781605017044","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}