1989, 31st printing from original (1952). Quarter-bound in brown leatherette over cloth boards, gilt spine, Smyth-sewn. Part of the Great Books of the Western World series by Encyclopaedia Britannica, edited with guidance from the University of Chicago.
Translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Motteux, this volume contains two of François Rabelais’s most widely read works, Gargantua and Pantagruel. A central figure of sixteenth-century French literature, Rabelais was a humanist and satirist whose influence extended well beyond his own time. First published between 1531 and 1564, these works helped shape literary satire and imaginative prose, contributing to later traditions of political and religious critique.
