Gargantua and Pantagruel: THE FIRST BOOK-THE SECOND BOOK Classic book by Francois Rabelais with Original Illustration

by François Rabelais

Book Overview

The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c.1471-1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy to make us look afresh at the world.Gargantua depicts a young giant, reduced to laughable insanity by an education at the hands of paternal ignorance, old crones and syphilitic professors, who is rescued and turned into a cultured Christian knight. And in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08BWFWYYG
• ISBN13: 9798658897288
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 11.0"