Title: Gargantua and Pantagruel Author: M. A. Rabelais, Francois; Screech ISBN: 9780140445503 Publisher: Penguin Classics Published: 2006 Binding: Paperback Language: English Edition: New Ed Number of Pages: 1104 Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: 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 humor. Gargantua depicts a young giant who becomes a cultured Christian knight. Pantagruel portrays Gargantua's bookish son who becomes a Renaissance Socrates, divinely guided by wisdom and by his idiotic, self-loving companion, Panurge.
