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Title: Bouvard and Pecuchet
A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life

Author: Gustave Flaubert

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Language: English

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[Illustration: "NO, MY LITTLE ANGEL! DON'T BE AFRAID!"]

BOUVARD AND PECUCHET

_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_

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. PAGE
KINDRED SOULS 1

CHAPTER II.
EXPERIMENTS IN AGRICULTURE 26

CHAPTER III.
AMATEUR CHEMISTS 72

CHAPTER IV.
RESEARCHES IN ARCHAEOLOGY 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!" (See
page 238) _Frontispiece_

MUTUALLY BECOMING AFFLICTED, THEY LOOKED AT
THEIR TONGUES 90

HE WAS