Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete (Illustrated and Annotated)

The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel is a pentalogy of novels composed in the 16th century by Francois Rabelais, which tells of the adventures of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel. The text is written in an amusing, extravagant, and satirical vein, and features much crudity, scatological humor, and violence (lists of explicit or vulgar insults fill several chapters). The censors of the Collège de la Sorbonne stigmatized it as obscene, and in a social climate of increasing rel...