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The Dictionary of Received Ideas

✍ Scribed by Gustave Flaubert; Geoffrey Wall; Julian Barnes

Book ID: 110627966
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Year: 1995
Tongue: English
Weight: 2 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780140389043

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✦ Synopsis

An insightful and playful look at nineteenth-century values and talking points, this dictionary will provide enduring entertainment and prove relevant in any age

A spoof encyclopedia of contemporary accepted wisdom and commonplaces, The Dictionary of Received Ideas sees Flaubert at his witty and satirical best. Perhaps intended as a companion to his final, unfinished novel Bouvard and Pécuchet, this compilation was the result of a lifetime of collecting the absurd and the clichéd, and providing darkly humorous explanations. This impressive new translation of a classic by the author of Madame Bovary is also currently the only edition in print in the English language.

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