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Gargantua and Pantagruel / François Rabelais.
- Title
- Gargantua and Pantagruel / François Rabelais.
- Author
- Rabelais, François, approximately 1490-1553?
- Publication
- Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, Inc., 2016.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PQ1685.E5 U7 2016 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 807 pages; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "First published in four volumes between 1532 and 1552, Rabelais' comic masterpiece chronicles the adventures of a giant, Gargantua, and his son, Pantagruel. More than four centuries later, the terms "gargantuan" and "Rabelaisian" are synonymous with earthy humor, a surfeit of good food and drink, and pleasures of the flesh. This series of exaggerated fables was condemned upon its initial publication by the censors of the College de la Sorbonne. But beneath their bawdy, often scatological wit, the tales bear a deeper significance as the author's defense of daring and groundbreaking ideas. Using his ribald humor, Rabelais addresses timeless issues of education, politics, and philosophy. His parodies of classic authors as well as his own contemporaries offer a hilarious expose of human folly and an enduring satire of history, literature, religion, and culture. This edition features the classic translation by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Pierre le Motteux"--
- Series Statement
- Dover thrift editions
- Uniform Title
- Gargantua et Pantagruel. English
- Dover thrift editions.
- Alternative Title
- Gargantua et Pantagruel.
- Gargantua & Pantagruel
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Humorous fiction
- Note
- Translated from the French.
- "This Dover edition, first published in 2016, is a republication of the work originally published by David Nutt, London, in 1900. The translation was done by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Pierre Le Motteux. A Note has been prepared specially for this edition" -- Verso title page.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780486808338
- 0486808335
- LCCN
- ^^2016021416
- OCLC
- 946462565
- SCSB-12814276
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library