Bouvard and Pécuchet with The Dictionary of Received Ideas
Author: Gustave Flaubert
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…..Read More
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