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"MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC
DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL",
Translated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty
and Peter Antony Motteux.

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she scanned:

"The text of the first Two Books of Rabelais has been reprinted from the
first edition (1653) of Urquhart's translation. Footnotes initialled
'M.' are drawn from the Maitland Club edition (1838); other footnotes
are by the translator. Urquhart's translation of Book III. appeared
posthumously in 1693, with a new edition of Books I. and II., under
Motteux's editorship. Motteux's rendering of Books IV. and V. followed
in 1708. Occasionally (as the footnotes indicate) passages omitted by
Motteux have been restored from the 1738 copy edited by Ozell."

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"Gargantua and Pantagruel" by François Rabelais is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century. It chronicles the adventures of two giants—Gargantua and his son Pantagruel—through a series of outrageous exploits. Written in an amusing, extravagant, and satirical style, the work features erudition, vulgarity, and wordplay. The narrative follows the giants through education, wars, and an epic voyage seeking the Divine Bottle, encountering bizarre lands and creatures along the way while satirizing contemporary society and religion. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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