Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Gargantua and Pantagruel

Gargantua and Pantagruel #1-5

François Rabelais with Peter Motteux (Translator), Thomas Urquhart (Translator)

788 pages first pub 1564 (editions) user-added

fiction classics adventurous reflective slow-paced
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A fantasy of life amongst the monks and friars of 16th-century France. Within the text, Rabelais espouses a positive view of life in which tolerance, goodness, understanding and wisdom are opposed to dogmatism, pride and cruelty. 

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