| Gargantua and Pantagruel Contributor(s): Rabelais, Francois (Author), Raffel, Burton (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0393308065 ISBN-13: 9780393308068 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1991 Annotation: 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 on religion and education to matter-of-fact descriptions of bodily functions and desires-is one of the great comic masterpieces of literature. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Satire |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Lexile Measure: 1340 |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.75 lbs) 636 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Rabelais's vigorous examination of the life of his times-from bizarre battles to great drinking bouts, from satire on religion and education to matter-of-fact descriptions of bodily functions and desires-is one of the great comic masterpieces of literature. |
Contributor Bio(s): Raffel, Burton: - Burton Raffel is Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Emeritus. He is the translator of many works, including Gargantua and Pantagruel (awarded the French-American Foundation Translation Prize), Père Goriot, Beowulf, and the five romances of Chrétien de Troyes. |