{"product_id":"the-histories-of-gargantua-and-pantagruel-the-franklin-library-1","title":"The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel (The Franklin Library)","description":"714 pp. Brown cloth binding with gilt decoration and gilt edges. Decorative endpapers. \"The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (French: La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais,[a] telling the adventures of two giants, Gargantua (\/ɡɑːrˈɡæntjuə\/ gar-GAN-tew-ə, French: [ɡaʁɡɑ̃tɥa]) and his son Pantagruel (\/pænˈtæɡruɛl, -əl, ˌpæntəˈɡruːəl\/ pan-TAG-roo-el, -⁠əl, PAN-tə-GROO-əl, French: [pɑ̃taɡʁyɛl]). The work is written in an amusing, extravagant, and satirical vein, features much erudition, vulgarity, and wordplay, and is regularly compared with the works of William Shakespeare and James Joyce.[1][2][3] Rabelais was a polyglot, and the work introduced \"a great number of new and difficult words [...] into the French language\".[4] The work was stigmatised as obscene by the censors of the Collège de la Sorbonne,[5] and, within a social climate of increasing religious oppression in a lead up to the French Wars of Religion, it was treated with suspicion, and contemporaries avoided mentioning it.[6] \"Pantagruelism\", a form of stoicism, developed and applied throughout, is (among other things) \"a certain gaiety of spirit confected in disdain for fortuitous things\"[7] (French: une certaine gaîté d'esprit confite dans le mépris des choses fortuites).\"--Wikipedia","brand":"The Franklin Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39326799986758,"sku":"2312603","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2312603.jpg?v=1621520556","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/the-histories-of-gargantua-and-pantagruel-the-franklin-library-1","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}