The Dictionary of Accepted Ideas by Gustave Flaubert, Jaques Barzun

The Dictionary of Accepted Ideas

Gustave Flaubert, Jaques Barzun

92 pages first pub 1913 (editions)

nonfiction classics challenging funny reflective medium-paced
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Throughout his life Flaubert made it a game to eavesdrop for the cliché, the platitude, the borrowed and unquestioned idea with which the “right thinking” swaddle their minds. After his death his little treasury of absurdities, of half-truths and ...

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