First published in four volumes between 1532 and 1552, Rabelais\' comic masterpiece chronicles the adventures of a giant, Gargantua, and his son, Pantagruel.
This edition features the classic translation by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Pierre le Motteux..
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.
Using his ribald humor, Rabelais addresses timeless issues of education, politics, and philosophy.
But beneath their bawdy, often scatological wit, the tales bear a deeper significance as the author\'s defense of daring and groundbreaking ideas.
This series of exaggerated fables was condemned upon its initial publication by the censors of the College de la Sorbonne.
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.
First published in four volumes between 1532 and 1552, Rabelais\' comic masterpiece chronicles the adventures of a giant, Gargantua, and his son, Pantagruel
