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Gargantua and Pantagruel - Francois Rabelais - Hardcover - 1st Edition
by Rabelais, Francois, Raffel, Burton
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- ISBN-13: 9780393028430
- ISBN: 0393028437
- Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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A masterly new translation of Rabelais s robust scatalogical comedy Parodying everyone from classic authors to his own contemporaries, the dazzling and exuberant stories of Rabelais expose human follies with mischievous and often obscene humor. "Gargantua" depicts a young giant who becomes a cultured Christian knight. "Pantagruel" portrays Gargantua s bookish son who becomes a Renaissance Socrates, divinely guided by wisdom and by his idiotic, self-loving companion, Panurge.Rabelais, Francois is the author of 'Gargantua and Pantagruel - Francois Rabelais - Hardcover - 1st Edition' with ISBN 9780393028430 and ISBN 0393028437.
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