Motteux, Peter Anthony 1660-1718

Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais ( Book )
68 editions published between 1900 and 2012 in English and held by 2,764 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"M. A. Screech's translation captures Rabelais' ingenious wordplay and mastery of language. The introduction explores his individuality while comparing him to Shakespeare, and presents each book to open up the new horizons of Renaissance Europe. This edition also includes a chronology and notes."--Jacket

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ( Book )
51 editions published between 1906 and 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,801 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Don Quixote is a middle-aged gentleman from the region of La Mancha in central Spain. Obsessed with the chivalrous ideals touted in books he has read, he decides to take up his lance and sword to defend the helpless and destroy the wicked. After a first failed adventure, he sets out on a second one with a somewhat befuddled laborer named Sancho Panza, whom he has persuaded to accompany him as his faithful squire. In return for Sanchoʹs services, Don Quixote promises to make Sancho the wealthy governor of an isle. On his horse, Rocinante, a barn nag well past his prime, Don Quixote rides the roads of Spain in search of glory and grand adventure. He gives up food, shelter, and comfort, all in the name of a peasant woman, Dulcinea del Toboso, whom he envisions as a princess

The first part of the life and achievements of the renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ( Book )
18 editions published between 1941 and 1979 in English and German and held by 1,386 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Tells the adventures of an eccentric hidalgo who adopted the name of Don Quixote de la Mancha, when his brain had become so addled from reading too many romances on knighthood. Don Quixote has known most of the misfortunes that can befall a man and has yet remained of good humor and stout heart

The history of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ( Book )
154 editions published between 1700 and 2010 in English and held by 1,282 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The adventures of an idealistic country gentleman and his shrewd squire who set out, like knights of old, to search for adventure and right wrongs

The works of Rabelais by François Rabelais ( Book )
43 editions published between 1848 and 1983 in English and held by 588 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Contains only the five books of Gargantua and Pantagruel

The island princess or the generous Portuguese. Made into an opera. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal. All the musical entertainments, and the greatest part of the play new, and written by Mr. Motteux by Peter Anthony Motteux ( )
33 editions published between 1701 and 1989 in English and held by 467 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Camilla An opera. As it is perform'd at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane, by Her Majesty's servants by Peter Anthony Motteux ( )
19 editions published between 1706 and 1709 in English and held by 402 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Thomyris, Queen of Scythia. An opera As it is perform'd at the theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields. Written by Mr. Motteux by Peter Anthony Motteux ( )
41 editions published between 1707 and 2005 in English and Undetermined and held by 395 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A poem upon tea by Peter Anthony Motteux ( )
17 editions published between 1712 and 2010 in English and held by 373 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick : containing five books of the lives, heroick deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his sonne Pantagruel : together with the Pantagrueline Prognostication, the Oracle of the Divine Bacbuc, and response of the bottle : Hereunto are annexed the Navigations unto the Sounding Isle and the Isle of the Apedefts, as likewise the Philosophical cream with a Limosin Epistle all done by François Rabelais ( Book )
13 editions published between 1904 and 1948 in English and held by 330 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Gargantua and Pantagruel" is a satire ridiculing the educational and religious establishment of Rabelais' time