"Dictionary of Established Views" is a humorous work by the great French writer Gustave Flaubert. In this book, the author mocks with disdain the tainted ideas and stereotypes of society, which are on the borders of the vulgar and the absurd. Flaubert accurately and ironically reproduces a certain type of people and their fixed views on various aspects of life. The book "Dictionary of established views" helps the reader to look at the surrounding world from an unexpected perspective and to reveal the ridiculousness of the paradoxes of everyday life.