A kind of detective story, relating a cranky amateur scholar's search for the truth about Gustave Flaubert, and the obsession of this detective whose life seems to oddly mirror those of Flaubert's characters.
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1 Flaubert's Parrot 2 Chronology 3 Finders Keepers 4 The Flaubert Bestiary 5 Snap! 6 Emma Bovary's Eyes 7 Cross Channel 8 The Train-spotter's Guide to Flaubert 9 The Flaubert Apocrypha 10 The Case Against 11 Louise Colet's Version 12 Braithwaite's Dictionary of Accepted Ideas 13 Pure Story " I4 Examination Paper