The Works of Francois Rabelais
Translated by Thomas Urquhard & Peter Motteua, wonderful illustrations by Frank Pape, 1950, Abbey Library, 729 pages, hardcover.
Good condition, no dust jacket, pages clean slight tanning with age, binding intact, lower binding edge of cover stained.
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.
Translated by Thomas Urquhard & Peter Motteua, wonderful illustrations by Frank Pape, 1950, Abbey Library, 729 pages, hardcover.
Good condition, no dust jacket, pages clean slight tanning with age, binding intact, lower binding edge of cover stained.
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.
Translated by Thomas Urquhard & Peter Motteua, wonderful illustrations by Frank Pape, 1950, Abbey Library, 729 pages, hardcover.
Good condition, no dust jacket, pages clean slight tanning with age, binding intact, lower binding edge of cover stained.
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.