Gargantua and Pantagruel
1564 · 1104 pages
Two giants eat, drink, and study their way across Renaissance France while a monk and a scoundrel debate marriage. Rabelais packed in so much filth and learning that his name became an adjective.
★ 7.4
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The Conquest of New Spain
1568 · 412 pages
Fifty years on, writing in Guatemala, one of Cortés's foot soldiers set down the conquest of Mexico as the ranks saw it. He never got over his first sight of Tenochtitlan.
★ 7.3