{"product_id":"2026200008051-secondhand-bouvard-and-pecuchet","title":"Bouvard And Pécuchet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGustave Flaubert's final and unfinished masterpiece, Bouvard and Pécuchet, is a sweeping satirical novel that chronicles the misadventures of two Parisian copy-clerks who, upon inheriting a fortune, retire to the French countryside to pursue every field of human knowledge. With biting wit and meticulous irony, the novel systematically dismantles the pretensions of nineteenth-century bourgeois intellectualism as the two bumbling protagonists throw themselves — with spectacular incompetence — into agriculture, chemistry, medicine, archaeology, history, philosophy, and beyond. Flaubert constructs the narrative as a grand comic encyclopaedia of human folly, presenting each failed endeavour as a devastating indictment of received wisdom and second-hand ideas. Written over the last decade of Flaubert's life and published posthumously in 1881, the work stands as one of literature's most ambitious and darkly comic monuments to the limits of self-improvement and the absurdity of human ambition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48956187934939,"sku":"2026200008051-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/0699aa24-2ff4-4662-92f5-6bb05f3c640e.png?v=1783498891","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200008051-secondhand-bouvard-and-pecuchet","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}