Gargantua and Pantagruel

Parodying everyone from classic authors to his own contemporaries, the dazzling and exuberant stories of Rabelais expose human follies with mischievous and often obscene humor. Gargantua depicts a young giant who becomes a cultured Christian knight. Pantagruel portrays Gargantua’s bookish son who becomes a Renaissance Socrates, divinely guided by wisdom and by his idiotic, self-loving companion, Panurge.

• Rabelais and His World
• Praise of Folly (Penguin Classics)
• Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish
• Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics)
• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin Classics)
• An Anthology of Russian Literature from Earliest Writings to Modern Fiction: Introduction to a Culture
• Castle Rackrent and Ennui (Penguin Classics)
• The Castle
• Utopia (Penguin Classics)
• The Idiot (Penguin Classics)