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"The dazzling and exuberant comic 'Chronicles' of Rabelais (c. 1483-1552) are a feast of wisdom and laughter. Realism intertwines with carnivalesque fantasy, Renaissance learning with obscene humour to make readers look at the world afresh. Pantagruel, a tale of comic chivalry, satirizes lawyers, theologians and academic buffoons, while Gargantua mocks rash generals, idiotic monarchs and uncouth professors. It champions freedom and laughs at a dirty...
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Collection Folio volume 3200
Harbrace paperbound library volume HPL 39
Collection Folio junior volume 453
Collection Folio volume 3200
Harbrace paperbound library volume HPL 39
Collection Folio junior volume 453
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An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little man from a small planet who describes his adventures in the universe seeking the secret of what is really important in life.
4) Pantagruel
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Series
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Editions Gallimard
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
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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, extravagant, satirical vein.
13) A malediction
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Publisher
Snuggly Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Histoires et contes fantastiques, here translated by Brian Stableford as A Malediction, was the first volume of prose by Erckmann-Chatrian, the pseudonym of Émilie Erckmann (1822-1899) and Alexandre Chatrian (1826-1890), who wrote in collaboration. Ranging from the Romantic melodrama of the title novelette, which has never before appeared in English, to the horrific fantastic of "Red Wine and White Wine," the current collection features imaginative...
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University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
An anthology of thrillers and chillers from 19th Century France. In Theophile Gautier's The Dead in Love, a man develops an obsessive passion for a woman who has returned from the grave, while Honore de Balzac's The Red Inn is on a crime which is committed by one person in thought and another in deed.
18) Rabelais
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Twayne's world authors series. France volume TWAS 11
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
[1967]
Language
English
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