Gargantua and Pantagruel

Name: Gargantua and Pantagruel
Author: François Rabelais

by François Rabelais

Pages: about 1157
Category: Literature & Fiction
Language: English
Reading time: 21 h at 250 wpm

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Chapter 1.II.--The Antidoted Fanfreluches: or, a Galimatia of extravagant Conceits found in an ancient Monument
Chapter 1.IV.--How Gargamelle, being great with Gargantua, did eat a huge deal of tripes
Chapter 1.VII.--After what manner Gargantua had his name given him, and how he tippled, bibbed, and curried the can
Chapter 1.XIII.--How Gargantua’s wonderful understanding became known to his father Grangousier, by the invention of a torchecul or wipebreech
Chapter 1.XVI.--How Gargantua was sent to Paris, and of the huge great mare that he rode on; how she destroyed the oxflies of the Beauce
Chapter 1.XVII.--How Gargantua paid his welcome to the Parisians, and how he took away the great bells of Our Lady’s Church
Chapter 1.XVIII.--How Janotus de Bragmardo was sent to Gargantua to recover the great bells
Chapter 1.XIX.--The oration of Master Janotus de Bragmardo for recovery of the bells
Chapter 1.XX.--How the Sophister carried away his cloth, and how he had a suit in law against the other masters
Chapter 1.XXI.--The study of Gargantua, according to the discipline of his schoolmasters the Sophisters
Chapter 1.XXIII.--How Gargantua was instructed by Ponocrates, and in such sort disciplinated, that he lost not one hour of the day
Chapter 1.XXV.--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
Chapter 1.XXVI.--How the inhabitants of Lerne, by the commandment of Picrochole their king, assaulted the shepherds of Gargantua unexpectedly and on a sudden
Chapter 1.XXVII.--How a monk of Seville saved the close of the abbey from being ransacked by the enemy
Chapter 1.XXVIII.--How Picrochole stormed and took by assault the rock Clermond, and of Grangousier’s unwillingness and aversion from the undertaking of war
Chapter 1.XXIX.--The tenour of the letter which Grangousier wrote to his son Gargantua
Chapter 1.XXXIII.--How some statesmen of Picrochole, by hairbrained counsel, put him in extreme danger

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