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The Life of Gargantua and of 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...
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Great books of the Western World volume 29
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Humorous antics of Don and his fat buddy, Sancho Panza.
38) Newton, Huygens
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(1952) 1990
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Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; Treatise on light