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Gargantua and Pantagruel

François, 1490?-1553? Rabelais · Gustave Doré · Peter Anthony Motteux · Thomas, Sir Urquhart

FormatEbook
Published2004
Words3,20,185
LanguageEnglish
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This comic novel follows the adventures of the giants Gargantua and his son Pantagruel, blending bawdy satire, humanism, and encyclopedic digression across sixteenth-century France. It suits readers of Renaissance literature, satire, and the history of the European novel.

François, 1490?-1553? Rabelais

François Rabelais was a French Renaissance writer, physician, and humanist scholar active in the first half of the sixteenth century. He is best known for his connected series of comic and satirical novels featuring the giants Gargantua and Pantagruel.

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