Three Good Giants / Whose Ancient Deeds are recorded in the Ancient Chronicles
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- THREE GOOD GIANTS
- WHOSE FAMOUS DEEDS ARE RECORDED IN THE ANCIENT CHRONICLES
- OF
- FRANÇOIS RABELAIS
- COMPILED FROM THE FRENCH BY
- JOHN DIMITRY, A.M. Illustrated by Gustave Doré and A. Robida
- AN EXPLANATION BY WAY OF PREFACE.
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS.
- ENGRAVINGS IN THE TEXT.
- THREE GOOD GIANTS.
- CHAPTER I.
- HOW THE FIRST GIANTS CAME INTO THE WORLD.
- CHAPTER II.
- GARGANTUA IS BORN.
- CHAPTER III.
- GARGANTUA AS A BABY.
- CHAPTER IV.
- THE ROYAL TAILOR'S BILL FOR GARGANTUA'S SUIT.
- CHAPTER V.
- THE YEAR GARGANTUA HAD WOODEN HORSES, AND WHAT USE HE MADE OF THEM.
- CHAPTER VI.
- HOW GARGANTUA WAS TAUGHT LATIN.
- CHAPTER VII.
- THE NEW MASTER FOUND FOR GARGANTUA.
- CHAPTER VIII.
- GARGANTUA GOES TO PARIS, AND THE BIG MARE THAT TAKES HIM THERE.
- CHAPTER IX.
- THE PARISIANS LAUGH AT GARGANTUA.—HE TAKES HIS REVENGE BY STEALING THE GREAT BELLS OF NÔTRE-DÂME.
- CHAPTER X.
- PONOCRATES, THE NEW TEACHER, DESIRES GARGANTUA TO SHOW HIM HOW HE USED TO STUDY WITH OLD MASTER HOLOFERNES.
- CHAPTER XI.
- THE TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN GAMES OF CARDS GARGANTUA KNEW HOW TO PLAY.—WHAT IT WAS HE SAID AFTER HE HAD GONE THROUGH THE LIST, AND WHAT IT WAS PONOCRATES REMARKED.
- CHAPTER XII.
- GARGANTUA IS DOSED BY PONOCRATES, AND FORGETS ALL THAT HOLOFERNES HAD TAUGHT HIM.
- CHAPTER XIII.
- HOW GARGANTUA WAS MADE NOT TO LOSE ONE HOUR OF THE DAY.
- CHAPTER XIV.
- HOW THE AWFUL WAR BETWEEN THE BUNMAKERS OF LERNE AND GARGANTUA'S COUNTRY WAS BEGUN.
- CHAPTER XV.
- HOW OLD KING GRANDGOUSIER RECEIVED THE NEWS.
- CHAPTER XVI.
- HOW GRANDGOUSIER TRIED TO BUY PEACE WITH FIVE CART-LOADS OF BUNS.
- CHAPTER XVII.
- HOW GARGANTUA, WITH A BIG TREE, BROKE DOWN A CASTLE AND PASSED THE FORD OF VEDE.
- CHAPTER XVIII.
- HOW GARGANTUA COMBED CANNON-BALLS OUT OF HIS HAIR, AND HOW HE ATE SIX PILGRIMS IN A SALAD BEFORE SUPPER.
- CHAPTER XIX.
- HOW FRIAR JOHN COMES TO THE FEAST, AND HOW KING GRANDGOUSIER HAD RECRUITED HIS ARMY.
- CHAPTER XX.
- GARGANTUA'S MARE SCORES A VICTORY.
- CHAPTER XXI.
- SHOWING WHAT GARGANTUA DID AFTER THE BATTLE, AND HOW GRANDGOUSIER WELCOMED HIM HOME.
- CHAPTER XXII.
- GRANDGOUSIER'S DEATH.—GARGANTUA'S MARRIAGE.—PANTAGRUEL IS BORN.
- CHAPTER XXIII.
- THE STRANGE THINGS PANTAGRUEL DID AS A BABY.
- CHAPTER XXIV.
- AFTER STUDYING AT SEVERAL UNIVERSITIES PANTAGRUEL GOES TO PARIS.
- CHAPTER XXV.
- PANTAGRUEL FINDS PANURGE, WHOM HE LOVES ALL HIS LIFE.
- CHAPTER XXVI.
- PANTAGRUEL BEATS THE SORBONNE IN ARGUMENT, AND PANURGE PROVES THAT AN ENGLISHMAN'S FINGERS ARE NOT SO NIMBLE AS A FRENCHMAN'S.
- CHAPTER XXVII.
- WHAT SORT OF MAN PANURGE WAS, AND THE MANY TRICKS HE KNEW.
- CHAPTER XXVIII.
- SHOWING WHY THE LEAGUES ARE SO MUCH SHORTER IN FRANCE THAN IN GERMANY.
- CHAPTER XXIX
- HOW THE CUNNING OF PANURGE, WITH THE AID OF EUSTHENES AND CARPALIM, DISCOMFITED SIX HUNDRED AND SIXTY HORSEMEN.
- CHAPTER XXX.
- HOW CARPALIM WENT HUNTING FOR FRESH MEAT, AND HOW A TROPHY WAS SET UP.
- CHAPTER XXXI.
- THE STRANGE WAY IN WHICH PANTAGRUEL OBTAINED A VICTORY OVER THE THIRSTY PEOPLE.
- CHAPTER XXXII.
- THE WONDERFUL WAY IN WHICH PANTAGRUEL DISPOSED OF THE GIANT LOUPGAROU AND HIS TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY-NINE GIANTS.
- CHAPTER XXXIII.
- HOW PANTAGRUEL FINALLY CONQUERS THE THIRSTY PEOPLE, AND THE STRANGE BUSINESS PANURGE FINDS FOR KING ANARCHUS.
- CHAPTER XXXIV.
- GARGANTUA COMES BACK FROM FAIRY-LAND.—AFTER WHICH PANTAGRUEL PREPARES FOR ANOTHER TRIP.
- CHAPTER XXXV.
- PANTAGRUEL STARTS ON HIS TRAVELS, AND LANDS AT THE ISLAND OF PICTURES.
- CHAPTER XXXVI.
- PANURGE BARGAINS WITH DINDENO FOR A RAM, AND THROWS HIS RAM OVERBOARD.
- CHAPTER XXXVII.
- THE ISLAND OF ALLIANCES.
- CHAPTER XXXVIII.
- HOW PANTAGRUEL CAME TO THE ISLANDS OF TOHU AND BOHU.—THE STRANGE DEATH OF WIDENOSTRILS, THE SWALLOWER OF WINDMILLS.
- CHAPTER XXXIX.
- A GREAT STORM, IN WHICH PANURGE PLAYS THE COWARD.
- CHAPTER XL.
- THE ISLAND OF THE MACREONS, AND ITS FOREST IN WHICH THE HEROES WHO ARE TEMPTED BY DEMONS DIE.
- CHAPTER XLI.
- PANTAGRUEL TOUCHES AT THE WONDERFUL ISLAND OF RUACH, WHERE GIANT WIDENOSTRILS HAD FOUND THE COCKS AND HENS WHICH KILLED HIM. HOW THE PEOPLE LIVED BY WIND.
- CHAPTER XLII.
- HOW PANTAGRUEL WITH HIS DARTS KILLS A MONSTER WHICH CANNON-BALLS COULD NOT HURT.—THE POWER OF THE SIGN OF THE CROSS.
- CHAPTER XLIII.
- WHICH TELLS OF SEVERAL ISLANDS, AND THE WONDERFUL PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN THEM.
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