Gargantua and Pantagruel (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

Some books are good for you, and some books are fun to read, but few books are both; Rabelais novels are among these few. A cornucopia of jokes, unforgettable characters, filth, sex, philosophy, and religion, Rabelais novels create our cultural DNA while they make us laugh. When we laugh at the mythical giants Pantagruel and Gargantua and their companions we laugh at ourselves. All the while we ar...