# Bouvard and Pecuchet

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- Book: [Bouvard and Pecuchet](https://www.bookquiver.com/gustave-flaubert/bouvard-and-pecuchet) ([Bouvard and Pecuchet.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/gustave-flaubert/bouvard-and-pecuchet.md))
- Authors: [Flaubert](https://www.bookquiver.com/gustave-flaubert), [A. J. Krailsheimer](https://www.bookquiver.com/a-j-krailsheimer)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4044-320-2
- Pages: 336
- Published: 1976-06-24
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Bouvard and Pécuchet are two Chaplinesque copy-clerks who meet on a park bench in Paris. Following an unexpected inheritance, they decide to give up their jobs and explore the world of ideas. ...