Gargantua and Pantagruel - Limited edition - Folio Society edition

Gargantua and Pantagruel - Limited edition

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Gargantua and Pantagruel - Limited edition
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Gargantua and Pantagruel - Limited edition

François Rabelais
Edition year 2019
Binding Leather
Illustrator Gustave Doré
Translator Professor M. A. Screech
Volumes 2
Limited edition Yes
Weight 10 Kg
Pages 1000 (total)
Dimensions 14¼ × 10¼ in

Edition details

Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais.(2v.). Illustrated by Gustave Doré. Introduced by Stephen Greenblatt. Translated by Professor M. A. Screech. Essay by Milan Kundera. Quarter-bound in goatskin leather with cloth sides blocked in gold foil on front and spine. 61 full-page engraved illustrations. 658 smaller engraved illustrations. Numerous ornamented initials throughout. Handmade cloth-bound slipcase printed in gold with designs by Doré. Gilded top edges. Ribbon markers. 1000 pages in total. 14¼×10¼in. 500 copies (£495)

About the book

François Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel is a exuberant Renaissance comic epic about a family of giants whose adventures encompass education, war, travel, feasting, philosophy and absurdity. Famous for its enormous appetite for language as well as food and drink, the work mixes learned parody with bawdy humour and fantasy. Rabelais uses exaggeration and satire to challenge scholasticism, religious hypocrisy, authoritarianism and conventional ideas about knowledge.

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