Author: Bess Streeter Aldrich
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Author: Charles Edward Cutts Birch Appleton
Publisher:
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 714

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Author: François Pialat
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456789236
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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WONDERFUL WINDING WORDS Touring in four languages (Chinese, English, French, German) From Franois PIALAT Welcome to this phrase-book in 4 languages (Chinese, English, French and German) which let us discovers fluent words and expressions from our daily life. We are at the crossing of Asian and European civilisations which intermingle with each others. Each civilisation shows its spirit according to its experience. A flow of ideas carries away the reader, awaking his perception. Funny, baffling, picturesque, echoingA colour, a fragrance, a scent beyond the words gives them their own sensibility. The hundred words chosen by the writer during his peregrinations and recollections are enriching our knowledge on our own vocabulary and the one of our neighbours from here and abroad. We discover an unusual Anglo-Saxon world and the Far East is bringing its exotic touch. Each word may have a special resonance in the imaginary or in the reality. Short, a clever book to learn while amusing oneself, confirming the maxim: Truth in the Pyrenees, mistake beyond. After having studied in Bournemouth, England, Tbingen and Bochum, Germany, the French author discovers ethnology with the hill tribes of the Golden Triangle, Thailand. His passion for Asia leads him to study Asian languages and civilisations.

Author: Walter Besant
Publisher:
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Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Author: François Rabelais
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Languages : en
Pages : 752

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Author: François Rabelais
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Author: François Rabelais
Publisher: Aegitas
ISBN: 0369406613
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1032

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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, telling the adventures of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel. 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. Rabelais was a polyglot, and the work introduced "a great number of new and difficult words [...] into the French language". The work was stigmatised as obscene by the censors of the Collège de la Sorbonne, 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. "Pantagruelism", a form of stoicism, developed and applied throughout, is (among other things) "a certain gaiety of spirit confected in disdain for fortuitous things" (French: une certaine gaîté d'esprit confite dans le mépris des choses fortuites).

Author: François Rabelais
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 183

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"Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5" by François Rabelais is the final volume in Rabelais' satirical series. This book concludes the epic adventures of Pantagruel and his companions, as they continue their quest and confront various allegorical and absurd scenarios. In this final installment, Rabelais wraps up the various threads of the narrative, blending fantastical elements with biting satire. The illustrations in this edition enhance the reader's experience of Rabelais' imaginative and often outrageous world, capturing the humor and complexity of the text. Book 5 maintains the series' characteristic wit and satire, offering a conclusion that reflects Rabelais’ views on society, knowledge, and human nature.

Author: François Rabelais
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387011342
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 478

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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author: Francois Rabelais
Publisher: Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
ISBN: 3986779043
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 1034

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Gargantua and Pantagruel Francois Rabelais - This edition contains all 5 complete books.The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c. 1471-1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy to make us look afresh at the world. Gargantua depicts a young giant, reduced to laughable insanity by an education at the hands of paternal ignorance, old crones and syphilitic professors, who is rescued and turned into a cultured Christian knight. And in Pantagruel and its three sequels, Rabelais parodied tall tales of chivalry and satirized the law, theology and academia to portray the bookish son of Gargantua who becomes a Renaissance Socrates, divinely guided in his wisdom, and his idiotic, self-loving companion Panurge.