Life And Writings Of Rabelais Gargantua Pantagruel

Author : Alan Dean Foster
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 150409350X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kingdoms of Light written by Alan Dean Foster and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six unlikely heroes must save a magical realm from dark sorcery in this delightful fantasy from New York Times–bestselling author Alan Dean Foster. Wizard Susname Enyndd was the Gowdlands’ kingdom’s most powerful protector. Then the sinister Khaxan Mundurucu and a band of goblin-warlocks from the Totumakk Horde conjured up a curse that reduced the wizard to ash and leeched all the color from the land. But with Enyndd’s death came a spell that enchanted his six familiar pets—the terrier Oskar, the songbird Taj, the boa Samm, and the cats Cezer, Cocoa, and Mamakitty—transforming them into human beings capable of wielding magic. Now, the six companions must embark on a quest into a rainbow to find the one thing that can lift the evil curse: the White Light. As they travel through myriad colorful kingdoms while avoiding deadly enemies, each must learn how to control their magical powers—and try to get the hang of being human. But at the end of the rainbow, the heroes discover an unsettling truth about their quest—and about the magic that can bring about the end of everything . . . “[An] action-packed fantasy, one that might have come straight from the vaults of Disney.” —Publishers Weekly “Humor and wit enliven this quest-tale.” —Library Journal

Author : François Rabelais
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 142504431X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gargantua and Pantagruel written by François Rabelais and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consisting of five books, this masterpiece is Rabelais' magnum opus. It chronicles different events in the life of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel. Using his learned wit and biting satire as a facade, Rabelais discusses several serious issues. The apparent humour and brilliant use of language offers pure reading pleasure. Entertaining and profound!

Author : François Rabelais
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393308068
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gargantua and Pantagruel written by François Rabelais and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1990 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 young giant before he turns into a splendid prince. Sequels lead into more complex and daring laughter and high mythology, often at the expense of Panurge - the mad, word-spinning companion of Pantagruel (who becomes a giant in wisdom, a Renaissance Socrates)." "M. A. Screech's translation captures Rabelais' ingenious wordplay and mastery of language. The introduction explores his individuality while comparing him to Shakespeare, and presents each book to open up the new horizons of Renaissance Europe. This edition also includes a chronology and notes."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Francois Rabelais
Publisher : Alma Books
ISBN 13 : 0714549452
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pantagruel and Gargantua written by Francois Rabelais and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his birth itself a monumental exploit in itself, it is clear that the giant Pantagruel is destined to great things, and the novel that bears his name chronicles his the remarkable life of the exuberant youth: from his voracious reading habits to his escapades with the knave Panurge and his prowess in battle. The second work in this volume deals with the history of his father Gargantua, whose biography is equally if not more outlandish and larger than life.But these bawdy and boisterous tales, with their fixation on food and faeces, are not just entertaining yarns, as Francois Rabelais, one of the foremost humanists of the sixteenth century, parodies medieval learning, lambasts the established church authority and develops his own ideal visions for the ordering of society.

Author : François Rabelais
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.EK/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Gargantua and the Heroic Deeds of Pantagruel written by François Rabelais and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : François Rabelais
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520064010
Total Pages : 1162 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Works of Francois Rabelais written by François Rabelais and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the complete works of French writer Francois Rabelais.

Author : François Rabelais
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781017118773
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Gargantua and the Heroic Deeds of Pantagruel written by François Rabelais and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : François Rabelais
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520064011
Total Pages : 1116 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Works of Francois Rabelais written by François Rabelais and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 1116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the complete works of French writer Francois Rabelais.

Author : François Rabelais
Publisher : Hesperus Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gargantua written by François Rabelais and published by Hesperus Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a companion volume to Pantagruel, this new edition of Gargantua continues Rabelais’ acclaimed fantasy of a mythical family of giants. Gargantua introduces Pantagruel’s father—another wondrous giant. As he tells Gargantua’s life story from his birth and education to his later life, Rabelais uses the events of the giant’s life to parody medieval and classical learning, mock traditional ecclesiastical authority, and proffer his own thoughts on humanism and society. Marked with the same warm humor, obsession with food, and scatological wit of Pantagruel, Gargantua is a further striking burlesque on Rabelais’ contemporaries and a glorious outpouring of Renaissance plenitude.

Author : Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253203410
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rabelais and His World written by Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. One of the essential texts of a theorist who is rapidly becoming a major reference in contemporary thought, Rabelais and His World is essential reading for anyone interested in problems of language and text and in cultural interpretation.