Francois Rabelais

• Jul-1954
• / Fantasy
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The Squashed edition of Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais. Abridged from the original text to read in an hour or so. Squashed editions are precise abridgements - the original ideas, in their own words, the full beam of the book, the...

• Mar-1955
• / General Fiction
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This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technolog...

• May-2003
• / General Fiction
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. ...

• May-2004
• / Literary
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François Rabelais holds a unique place in the history of world literature, and no more so than for his extraordinary satirical entertainment Gargantua and Pantagruel. Here the first of these volumes is presented in a new and lively translation. Pant...

• Feb-2006
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A fantasy of life amongst the monks and friars of 16th-century France which remains a satirical and comic classic. Rabelais espouses a positive view of life in which tolerance, goodness, understanding and wisdom are opposed to dogmatism, pride and cr...

• Feb-2006
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A fantasy of life amongst the monks and friars of 16th-century France which remains a satirical and comic classic. Rabelais espouses a positive view of life in which tolerance, goodness, understanding and wisdom are opposed to dogmatism, pride and cr...

• Nov-2011
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François Rabelais (c. 1494 - 1553) was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor and humanist. He was a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, and bawdy jokes and songs. This mammoth, oversized volume contains his best-known work, Gargantua and P...

• Jul-2012
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Had Rabelais never written his strange and marvellous romance, no one would ever have imagined the possibility of its production. It stands outside Other things -- a mixture of mad mirth and gravity, of folly and reason, of childishness and grandeur,...

• Jul-2012
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• The book is an edited and illustrated version of the original one and includes 18 or more unique illustrations which are relevant to its content.• Franois Rabelais (1494-1553) was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor and humanist...

• Jul-2012
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• The book is an edited and illustrated version of the original one and includes 18 or more unique illustrations which are relevant to its content.• Franois Rabelais (1494-1553) was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor and humanist...

• Jul-2012
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•Franois Rabelais (1494-1553) was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor and humanist. Gargantua and Pantagruel tells the story of two giants - a father, Gargantua, and his son, Pantagruel - and their adventures, written in an amusing, extravaga...

• Jul-2012
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• Aug-2012
• / General Fiction
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Franois Rabelais (1494-1553) was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor and humanist. Gargantua and Pantagruel tells the story of two giants - a father, Gargantua, and his son, Pantagruel - and their adventures, written in an amusing, extravagant,...

• Apr-2013
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• May-2013
• / Fantasy
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The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel is a connected series of five novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais. It is the story of two giants, a father, Gargantua, and his son Pantagruel and their adventures, written in an amusing, ex...

• Feb-2014
• / General Fiction
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Cette édition classique a été convertie par eBooksLib.com.Jadis composée par M. Alcofribas, abstracteur de Quinte Essence....

• May-2014
• / General Fiction
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This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

• Jul-2015
• / Fantasy
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Had Rabelais never written his strange and marvellous romance, no one would ever have imagined the possibility of its production. It stands outside other things -- a mixture of mad mirth and gravity, of folly and reason, of childishness and grandeur,...

• Jul-2015
• / Fantasy
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Good people, most illustrious drinkers, and you, thrice precious gouty gentlemen, did you ever see Diogenes, and cynic philosopher? If you have seen him, you then had your eyes in your head, or I am very much out of my understanding and logical sense...

• Dec-2015
• / General Fiction
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Rabelais then returned to the story of Pantagruel himself in the last three books. In The Third Book of Pantagruel (in French, Le tiers-livre de Pantagruel; the original title is Le tiers livre des faicts et dicts héroïques du bon Pantagruel), the ...

• Nov-2017
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• Dec-2018
• / General Fiction
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With his birth itself a monumental exploit in itself, it is clear that the giant Pantagruel is destined to great things, and the novel that bears his name chronicles his the remarkable life of the exuberant youth: from his voracious reading habits to...

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

• / Literary
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...