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Pantagruel And Gargantua: Newly Translated And Annotated (Alma Classics Evergreens)

Name: Pantagruel And Gargantua: Newly Translated And Annotated (Alma Classics Evergreens)
SKU: 9781847497406
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By (author) Francois Rabelais, Translated by Andrew Brown

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These bawdy and boisterous tales, with their fixation on food and faeces, are not just entertaining yarns, as Francois Rabelais parodies medieval learning, lambasts the established church authority and develops his own ideal visions for the ordering of society.

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SKU: 9781847497406

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Carnival classic Comic Evergreens french literature gargantua and pantagruel giants grotesque gullivers travels humanism humanist Pantagruelism picaresque Rabelais Renaissance Satire satirical sixteenth-century literature

ISBN: 9781847497406

Book Format: Paperback / softback

Pages: 352

Dimensions: 12.8 × 2.8 × 19.8 cm

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Format Paperback / softback | 352 pages
Dimensions 12.8 × 2.8 × 19.8 cm | 400
Publication Date 20 September 2018
Publisher Alma Books Ltd
Publication City/Country United Kingdom
Language English

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Francois Rabelais

3 Published Books

The monk and French Renaissance polymath Francois Rabelais (c.1494-1553), best known for his novels Pantagruel and Gargantua, is considered one of the greatest writers of early-modern European literature.

Andrew Brown

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