Bouvard and Pecuchet

Name: Bouvard and Pecuchet
Author: Gustave Flaubert

by Gustave Flaubert

Unfinished novel depicting two men researching and copying all human knowledge

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Gustave Flaubert

French novelist considered the leading exponent of literary realism. Madame Bovary, his painstaking study of a provincial doctor's wife, set new standards for narrative precision and psychological depth in fiction.

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