The Dictionary of Received Ideas  -  Gustave Flaubert

KORTE INHOUD

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 humoro...
1995 Taal: Engels zie alle details...

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1995 Uitgever: Penguin Classics 67 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0140389040 ISBN-13: 9780140389043