Bouvard and Pecuchet / The Dictionary of Accepted Ideas
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.
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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140443202 (0140443207)
Publish date: June 24th 1976
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Humor,
Comedy,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Literary Fiction,
19th Century,
France,
French Literature
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