The Complete Works of Francois Rabelais (Centennial Book; a Wake Forest Studium Book)
"What Rabelais rubs our noses in is not dirt but the remarkable fact that man is a kind of sewer with a holy spirit hovering over it. [His work] stands, along with Montaigne, Machiavelli, Hamlet, Don Quixote and perhaps Goethe's Faust, as a signpost of the European culture to which we are all to give allegiance. . . . Frame's translation is worth having."--Anthony Burgess, "Times Literary Supplement