Bouvard and Pécuchet - A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Bouvard and Pécuchet, by Gustave Flaubert This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Author: Gustave Flaubert Release Date: April 7, 2008 [EBook #25014] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BOUVARD AND PÉCUCHET *** Produced by Thierry Alberto, Henry Craig and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Note Obvious typographical errors have been corrected in this text. For a complete list, please see the bottom of this document. "No, my little angel! Don't be afraid!" BOUVARD AND PÉCUCHET A TRAGI-COMIC NOVEL OF BOURGEOIS LIFE BY GUSTAVE FLAUBERT VOLUME IX. SIMON P. MAGEE PUBLISHER CHICAGO, ILL. COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY M. WALTER DUNNE Entered at Stationer's Hall, London viiCONTENTS Chapter I. page        KINDRED SOULS 1 Chapter II.        EXPERIMENTS IN AGRICULTURE 26 Chapter III.        AMATEUR CHEMISTS 72 Chapter IV.        RESEARCHES IN ARCHÆOLOGY 123 Chapter V.        ROMANCE AND THE DRAMA 163 Chapter VI.        REVOLT OF THE PEOPLE 191 Chapter VII.        "UNLUCKY IN LOVE" 228 Chapter VIII.        NEW DIVERSIONS 242 ILLUSTRATIONS facing page "NO, MY LITTLE ANGEL! DON'T BE AFRAID!