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Gargantua and Pantagruel
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<Note: Based on the printings of the entire set, this set of titles is the same for both Volumes 22 and 24 of the Great Books of the Western World>

Parodying everyone from classic authors to his own contemporaries, the dazzling and exuberant stories of Rabelais expose human... read more

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  1. Gargantua

    Gargantua

    by Francois Rabelais (Author)

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  2. Pantagruel

    Pantagruel

    by Francois Rabelais (Author)

    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...

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I must refer you to the great chronicle of Pantagruel for the knowledge of that genealogy and antiquity of race by which Gargantua is come unto us. In it you may understand more at large how the giants were born into the world, and how from them by a direct line issued Gargantua, the Father of the Pantagruels: and do not take it ill, for this time I pass by it, although the subject of such, that the oftener it were remembered, the more it would please your worshipful Senioras; according to which you have the authority of Plato in Philebo and Gorgias; and of Flaccus, who says that there are sone kinds of puproses (such as these are without doubt), which the frequentlier they be respected, still prove the more delectable. Would to God everyone had as certain knowledge of his genealogy since the ark of Noah until this age. I think may are this day emperors, kings, dukes, princes, and popes on the earth, whose extraction is from some porters, and pardonpedlars; as, on the contrary, many

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This is book 34 of 96 in Wikipedia's 100 most influential books ever written. (authoritative list)

Preceded by On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church, and followed by Calvin Institutes of the Christian Religion.

This book is in Big Fat Books. (community list)
This is book 995 of 1272 in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)

Preceded by Euphues - The Anatomy of Wit, and followed by The Arabian Nights.

This book is in Penguin Classics. (edition-based publisher list)
This book is in Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read. (authoritative list)
This is book 4 of 5 in Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School. (community list)

Preceded by Report of the Warren Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, and followed by The Poetic Edda.

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  1. Francois Rabelais (Author)

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Original Language: French
Publisher: F. Juste (Lyon)
Country: France
Publication Date: 1532-1564
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 712

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  • Project Gutenberg: Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais: Project Gutenberg has published the full text of the public domain English translation (by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux) either to read online or to download for free in a variety of eBook formats; Gutenberg also has the 5-volume illustrated version available download in those eBook formats that support images.

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