Rabelais Rousers (2024) More Imaginary Pets of Famous People (2024) Illustrating Brer Rabbit (2024) The Art of Peter Newell (2024) Imaginary Pets of Famous People (2023) A Nestlings Press Miscellany (2023) The Nestlings Press Devil's Dictionary (2023) The Caption and Tenniel (2023) Jack McLaren in Black and White (2023) Heresy at Lear's End (2022) The Sambourne Touch (2022) Humans and Other Animals (2022) It's Been Downhill Since the Dinosaurs (2022) Rhymes with... (2022) Ade Package (2021) Ade Package (2021) From Ferdinand to Mr. Popper (2020) Stopping for Words on a Snowy Egret (2020) Peake Performance (2020) How to Get to Heaven and Back (2020) Nestlings Press Book of Fairy Tales in Verse The Many Worlds of Walter Trier A Fourth Round of Aesop ASAP Treasures in the Antic Still More Aesop, ASAP How You Can Tell You’ve Moved Next Door to Satan More Aesop Here We Come A-Wassailing Other Men’s Business Thirty Thousand Pigs Eight Ways to Kill Off Classic Literature Aesop ASAP

Rabelais Rousers

PLEASE NOTE THAT WE MAIL ONLY TO CANADIAN ADDRESSES.


Rabelais Rousers
(2024, 160 pages with dozens in colour or sepia, $19.99, 6 inches wide by 8.75 inches high)

Reading François Rabelais's sixteenth-century masterpiece Gargantua and Pantagruel is like riding on a roller-coaster. The five volumes begin with the birth of Gargantua, an enormous child who becomes a colossal giant (hence the word "gargantuan"), and proceed to introduce his similarly gigantic son Pantagruel. This is a bawdy, imaginative, rude and exhilarating exercise - and a real challenge to illustrate. In the 1880s, French artist Albert Robida took on that challenge in two huge volumes and created some breathtakingly wonderful images, the best of which are crammed into this book, with snippets from Rabelais to make sense of it all (or nonsense, as the case may be). It's a lot of fun, from the nymphs and satyrs to the giant wooden pig modelled on the Trojan horse.

You can order this book through PayPal ($19.99 plus tax plus shipping).

 
 





Nestlings Press Home Page
Home | | ©2012-24 Nestlings Press