Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:22:56 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/gargantua-pantagruel-3669-112816.html Parodying everyone from classic authors to his own contemporaries, the dazzling and exuberant stories of Rabelais expose human follies with mischievous and often obscene humor. Gargantua depicts a young giant who becomes a cultured Christian knight. Pantagruel portrays Gargantuaas bookish son who becomes a Renaissance Socrates, divinely guided by wisdom and by his idiotic, selfloving companion, Panurge.

Author: Rabelais, Francois  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/notes-from-underground-3669-112817.html How far would you go to escape the real world? The underground man had always felt like an outsider. He doesn't want to be like other people, working in the anthill' of society. So he decides to withdraw from the world, scrawling a series of darkly sarcastic notes about the torment he is suffering. His only comfort is the humiliation of others.

Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100