Gargantua

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Gargantua olives, he joked, came one per can.

From Washington Post • Oct. 9, 2019

The series is called Gargantua and dinners are served every Thursday through Saturday.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2017

Surely Don Quixote or Moby Dick or Gargantua and Pantagruel would all be classed as postmodern novels, but they were written in the 17th, 19th and 16th centuries respectively – so what’s going on there?

From Salon • Aug. 20, 2012

Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel, Cervantes's Don Quixote, Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Melville's Moby-Dick and Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time – these works spoke paradoxically directly to me in their very sense of indirection.

From The Guardian • Aug. 3, 2012

A prominent character in Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais.

From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra