Language: English
Published in: 1534
Categorie(s): Fiction
Translator: Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux
Word count: 53,138 words (≈ about 4 hours)
Source: http://en.wikisource.org
Copyright: Public Domain
The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (in French, La vie de Gargantua et de 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.
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