Download or read book Bouvard and Pécuchet: a Tragi-Comic Novel of Bourgeois Life written by Gustave Flaubert and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gustave Flaubert was one of the 19th century's most famous authors. A French novelist, Flaubert led the way for the Realism literary movement in that country at a time that it was sweeping across Europe and the United States, and works like Madame Bovary are still wildly popular today.