Gargantua and Pantagruel
François Rabelais
Translator Peter Anthony Motteux, Thomas Urquhart
Publisher: e-artnow
Summary
Gargantua and Pantagruel is a pentalogy of novels which tells of the adventures of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel. The book is written in an amusing, extravagant, and satirical vein, and features much crudity, scatological humor, and violence.