Bouvard and Pecuchet / The Dictionary of Accepted Ideas
by: Gustave Flaubert

Hardcover. NY, New Directions, 1st thus, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and tanned dust jacket, first edition thus. Translated by T.W. Earp and G.W. Stonier. Introduction by Lionel Trilling. Flaubert's last novel, an unfinished comedy of two clerks who set out to educate themselves. 348 pages. Followed by the author's supplemental work: The Dictionary of Accepted Ideas, translated and edited by Jacques Barzun, 86 pages.