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4 Hawthorne Classics- Medieval and Renaissance General

Histories of Gargantua & Pantagruel

by Rabelais/cohen

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Publisher Comments:

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.

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About the Author

Franois Rabelais (c.1483 &c.1553) was a Franciscan monk turned Benedictine at the center of the sixteenth-century humanist movement.

M. A. Screech is a fellow of All Souls College and an honorary fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, as well as a fellow of the British Academy. He is a world-renowned Renaissance scholar who has published widely on Rabelais, Montaigne, and Erasmus.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780140440478
Subtitle:
The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel
Translator:
Cohen, J. M.
Author:
Screech, M. A.
Author:
Rabelais, Francois
Author:
Cohen, J. M.
Publisher:
Penguin Classics
Location:
Harmondsworth, Middlesex ;
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
Novels and novellas
Subject:
Literature
Subject:
Continental european fiction (fictional works
Copyright:
1955
Edition Description:
Mass Market
Series Volume:
46E
Publication Date:
19550630
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
French
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
720
Dimensions:
7.66x5.32x1.16 in. 1.01 lbs.
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