TY - BOOK AU - Rabelais,François AU - Doré,Gustave AU - Motteux,Peter Anthony AU - Urquhart,Thomas,Sir TI - Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 AV - PQ PY - 2005/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Giants -- Fiction KW - Fantasy fiction, French -- Translations into English KW - Gargantua (Legendary character) -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargantua_and_Pantagruel; Release date is 2005-05-01; Produced by Sue Asscher and David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1" by François Rabelais is a novel written in the 16th century. This satirical masterpiece follows the adventures of two giants—Gargantua and his son Pantagruel—through a world of absurd battles, peculiar education, and outrageous encounters. Written with vulgar humor, wordplay, and sharp social commentary, the work was condemned as obscene by French censors. Rabelais blends erudition with extravagance, creating a comic epic that introduced countless new words to the French language and gave us the term "gargantuan." (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8166 ER -