by Gustave Flaubert (Author), Gustave Flaubert (Author), A. Krailsheimer (Author)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 25 Mar 1976
ISBN 10: 0140443207
ISBN 13: 9780140443202
Dr. A.J. Krailsheimer was born in 1921 and was Tutor in French at Christ Church, Oxford, from 1957 until his retirement in 1988. His publications are Studies in Self-Interest (1963), Rabelais and the Franciscans (1965), Three Conteurs of the Sixteenth Century (1966), Rabelais (1967), A. J. de Ranc , Abbot of La Trappe (1974), Pascal (1980), Conversion (1980), Letters of A. J. de Ranc (1984), Ranc and the Trappist Legacy (1985) and Correspondance de Ranc (1993). He has also translated Flaubert's Bouvard and P cuchet and Salammbo and Pascal's The Provincial Letters for the Penguin Classics.