Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Rabelais’ life and works
* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts
* All of the novels, with individual contents tables
* Translated by Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux
* Features Gustave Doré’s celebrated illustrations for the Gargantua and Pantagruel series
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Special criticism section, with essays evaluating Rabelais’ contribution to literature
* Features a bonus biography – discover Rabelais’ intriguing life
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres
CONTENTS:
The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel
Pantagruel (1532)
Gargantua (1534)
The Third Book of Pantagruel (1546)
The Fourth Book of Pantagruel (1552)
The Fifth Book of Pantagruel (1564)
The Criticism
On Mr. Pope and Some Other Famous Poets by Voltaire
Rabelais by William Ernest Henley
Rabelais by Robert Hebert Quick
Rabelais by William Cleaver Wilkinson
To Maitre Francoys Rabelais by Andrew Lang
Rabelais by John Cowper Powys
The Biography
François Rabelais (1911) by George Saintsbury
