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"Gargantua and Pantagruel" (AKA "The Life of Gargantua and Pantagruel") is a series of five novels written by François Rabelais in the sixteenth century. It tells the story of the adventures of two giants in a satirical prose laced with irony and sarcasm.
No one is safe. Rabelais criticized the Catholic Church, the political establishment, the common people, and philosophers among others. The series is considered a classic of Renaissance literature. It gave the French language hundreds of new words and has been analyzed for its satirical structure by many critics. Although the style is not one modern readers are familiar with, it is part of the classic canon of French literature.
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GenreHumor, Literary Classics, General Fiction
Length33 hrs 15 mins
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Publish dateApr 7, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1BOOK ONE
2Francis Rabelais
3The Author's Prologue To The First Book
4Chapter 1. Of The Genealogy And Antiquity Of Gargantua
5Chapter 2. The Antidoted Fanfreluches: Or, A Galimatia Of Extravagant Conceits Found In An Ancient Monument
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6Chapter 3. How Gargantua Was Carried Eleven Months In His Mother's Belly
7Chapter 4. How Gargamelle, Being Great With Gargantua, Did Eat A Huge Deal Of Tripes
8Chapter 5. The Discourse Of The Drinkers
9Chapter 6. How Gargantua Was Born In A Strange Manner
10Chapter 7. After What Manner Gargantua Had His Name Given Him, And How He Tippled, Bibbed, And Curried The Can
11Chapter 8. How They Apparelled Gargantua
12Chapter 9. The Colours And Liveries Of Gargantua
13Chapter 10. Of That Which Is Signified By The Colours White And Blue
14Chapter 11. Of The Youthful Age Of Gargantua
15Chapter 12. Of Gargantua's Wooden Horses
16Chapter 13. How Gargantua's Wonderful Understanding Became Known To His Father Grangousier, By The Invention Of A Torchecul Or Wipebreech
17Chapter 14. How Gargantua Was Taught Latin By A Sophister
18Chapter 15. How Gargantua Was Put Under Other Schoolmasters
19Chapter 16. How Gargantua Was Sent To Paris, And Of The Huge Great Mare That He Rode On; How She Destroyed The Oxflies Of The Beauce
20Chapter 17. How Gargantua Paid His Welcome To The Parisians, And How He Took Away The Great Bells Of Our Lady's Church
21Chapter 18. How Janotus De Bragmardo Was Sent To Gargantua To Recover The Great Bells
22Chapter 19. The Oration Of Master Janotus De Bragmardo For Recovery Of The Bells
23Chapter 20. How The Sophister Carried Away His Cloth, And How He Had A Suit In Law Against The Other Masters
24Chapter 21. The Study Of Gargantua, According To The Discipline Of His Schoolmasters The Sophisters
25Chapter 22. The Games Of Gargantua
26Chapter 23. How Gargantua Was Instructed By Ponocrates, And In Such Sort Disciplinated, That He Lost Not One Hour Of The Day
27Chapter 24. How Gargantua Spent His Time In Rainy Weather
28Chapter 25. How There Was Great Strife And Debate Raised Betwixt The Cake-Bakers Of Lerne, And Those Of Gargantua's Country, Whereupon Were Waged Great Wars
29Chapter 26. How The Inhabitants Of Lerne, By The Commandment Of Picrochole Their King, Assaulted The Shepherds Of Gargantua Unexpectedly And On A Sudden
30Chapter 27. How A Monk Of Seville Saved The Close Of The Abbey From Being Ransacked By The Enemy
31Chapter 28. How Picrochole Stormed And Took By Assault The Rock Clermond, And Of Grangousier's Unwillingness And Aversion From The Undertaking Of War
32Chapter 29. The Tenour Of The Letter Which Grangousier Wrote To His Son Gargantua
33Chapter 30. How Ulric Gallet Was Sent Unto Picrochole
34Chapter 31. The Speech Made By Gallet To Picrochole
35Chapter 32. How Grangousier, To Buy Peace, Caused The Cakes To Be Restored
36Chapter 33. How Some Statesmen Of Picrochole, By Hairbrained Counsel, Put Him In Extreme Danger
37Chapter 34. How Gargantua Left The City Of Paris To Succour His Country, And How Gymnast Encountered With The Enemy
38Chapter 35. How Gymnast Very Souply And Cunningly Killed Captain Tripet And Others Of Picrochole's Men
39Chapter 36. How Gargantua Demolished The Castle At The Ford Of Vede, And How They Passed The Ford
40Chapter 37. How Gargantua, In Combing His Head, Made The Great Cannon-Balls Fall Out Of His Hair
41Chapter 38. How Gargantua Did Eat Up Six Pilgrims In A Salad
42Chapter 39. How The Monk Was Feasted By Gargantua, And Of The Jovial Discourse They Had At Supper
43Chapter 40. Why Monks Are The Outcasts Of The World; And Wherefore Some Have Bigger Noses Than Others
44Chapter 41. How The Monk Made Gargantua Sleep, And Of His Hours And Breviaries
45Chapter 42. How The Monk Encouraged His Fellow-Champions, And How He Hanged Upon A Tree
46Chapter 43. How The Scouts And Fore-Party Of Picrochole Were Met With By Gargantua, And How The Monk Slew Captain Drawforth (Tirevant.), And Then Was Taken Prisoner By His Enemies
47Chapter 44. How The Monk Rid Himself Of His Keepers, And How Picrochole's Forlorn Hope Was Defeated
48Chapter 45. How The Monk Carried Along With Him The Pilgrims, And Of The Good Words That Grangousier Gave Them
49Chapter 46. How Grangousier Did Very Kindly Entertain Touchfaucet His Prisoner
50Chapter 47. How Grangousier Sent For His Legions, And How Touchfaucet Slew Rashcalf, And Was Afterwards Executed By The Command Of Picrochole
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