Œuvres complètes de Gustave Flaubert, tome 7: Bouvard et Pécuchet by Flaubert
"Œuvres complètes de Gustave Flaubert, tome 7: Bouvard et Pécuchet" by Gustave Flaubert is an unfinished novel published posthumously in 1881. Two copyists meet by chance in Paris and discover their shared interests. When an inheritance allows them to retire to the countryside, they enthusiastically attempt to master every field of knowledge—agriculture, science, archaeology, literature, politics, philosophy, and religion. Armed only with popular books and haphazard advice, their systematic experiments produce nothing
but disasters, revealing the gap between their ambitions and their understanding. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Claudine Corbasson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
Reading Level
Reading ease score: 73.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
