Gargantua and Pantagruel

Title: Gargantua and Pantagruel
Author: M. A. Rabelais, Francois; Screech
Fiction: 1689066
ISBN: 9780140445503
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 2006
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: New Ed
Number of Pages: 1104
Section: Fiction | Classics
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.