François Rabelais's "Gargantua and Pantagruel" is a pentalogy of satirical novels concerning the adventures of two giant characters. This work is a foundational text of French Renaissance literature, notable for its humor, wordplay, and social commentary.
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François Rabelais — Gargantua and Pantagruel in Satire
Held in the Satire chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Anonymous (Egypt) — The Satire of the Trades (The Instruction of Kheti) (c. 1900 BCE)
- Aristophanes — The Birds (c. 414 BCE)
- Aristophanes — The Clouds (c. 423 BCE)
- Lucian of Samosata — A True History (Verae Historiae) (c. 175 CE)
- Horace — Satires, Epistles, and the Art of Poetry (c. 35 BCE)
- Desiderius Erasmus — The Praise of Folly (1511)
- Thomas More — Utopia (1516)
- Jonathan Swift — Gulliver's Travels (1726)
- Voltaire — Candide, or Optimism (1759)
- Mark Twain — A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)
- Ambrose Bierce — The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
- Oscar Wilde — The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)