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Description

Biting and bawdy, smart and smutty, lofty and low, Gargantua and Pantagruel is fantasy on the grandest of scales, told with an unquenchable thirst for all of human experience. Rabelais's vigorous examination of the life of his times—from bizarre battles to great drinking bouts, from satire... read more

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First Sentence

Readers, friends, if you turn these pages Put your prejudice aside, For, really, there's nothing here that's outrageous, Nothing sick, or bad-or contagious.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Francois Rabelais (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Burton Raffel
 

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