et Pécuchet, the unfinished version of which was posthumously published in 1881. It was a grand satire on the futility of human knowledge and the ubiquity of mediocrity. Flaubert believed the work to be his masterpiece, though the novel received only a very small print run and mostly lukewarm reviews.

Flaubert was a prolific letter writer, and his letters have been collected in several publications.

At the time of his death, he may have been working on a further historical novel, based on the Battle of Thermopylae.

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