The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (in French, La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a connected series of five novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais. It is the story of two giants, a father (Gargantua) and his son (Pantagruel) and their adventures, written in an amusing, extravagant, satirical vein. There is much crudity and scatological humor as well as a large amount of violence. Long lists of vulgar insults fill several chapters. (Summary by Wikipedia)
For the Reader and Author's PrologueOf the original and antiquity of the great PantagruelOf the nativity of the most dread and redoubted PantagruelOf the grief wherewith Gargantua was moved at the decease of his wife BadebecOf the infancy of PantagruelOf the acts of the noble Pantagruel in his youthful ageHow Pantagruel met with a Limousin, who too affectedly did counterfeit the French languageHow Pantagruel came to Paris, and of the choice books of the Library of St. VictorHow Pantagruel, being at Paris, received letters from his father Gargantua, and the copy of themHow Pantagruel found Panurge, whom he loved all his lifetimeHow Pantagruel judged so equitably of a controversy, which was wonderfully obscure and difficult, that, by reason of his just decree therein, he was reputed to have a most admirable judgmentHow the Lords of Kissbreech and Suckfist did plead before Pantagruel without an attorneyHow the Lord of Suckfist pleaded before PantagruelHow Pantagruel gave judgment upon the difference of the two lordsHow Panurge related the manner how he escaped out of the hands of the TurksHow Panurge showed a very new way to build the walls of ParisOf the qualities and conditions of PanurgeHow Panurge gained the pardons, and married the old women, and of the suit in law which he had at ParisHow a great scholar of England would have argued against Pantagruel, and was overcome by PanurgeHow Panurge put to a nonplus the Englishman that argued by signsHow Thaumast relateth the virtues and knowledge of PanurgeHow Panurge was in love with a lady of ParisHow Panurge served a Parisian lady a trick that pleased her not very wellHow Pantagruel departed from Paris, hearing news that the Dipsodes had invaded the land of the Amaurots; and the cause wherefore the leagues are so short in FranceA letter which a messenger brought to Pantagruel from a lady of Paris, together with the exposition of a posy written in a gold ringHow Panurge, Carpalin, Eusthenes, and Epistemon, the gentlemen attendants of Pantagruel, vanquished and discomfited six hundred and threescore horsemen very cunninglyHow Pantagruel and his company were weary in eating still salt meats; and how Carpalin went a-hunting to have some venisonHow Pantagruel set up one trophy in memorial of their valour, and Panurge another in remembrance of the hares. How Pantagruel likewise with his farts begat little men, and with his fisgs little women; and how Panurge broke a great staff over two glassesHow Pantagruel got the victory very strangely over the Dipsodes and the GiantsHow Pantagruel discomfited the three hundred giants armed with free-stone, and Loupgarou their captainHow Epistemon, who had his head cut off, was finely healed by Panurge, and of the news which he brought from the devils, and of the damned people in hellHow Pantagruel entered into the city of the Amaurots, and how Panurge married King Anarchus to an old lantern-carrying hag, and made him a crier of green sauceHow Pantagruel with his tongue covered a whole army, and what the author saw in his mouthHow Pantagruel became sick, and the manner how he was recoveredThe conclusion of this present book, and the excuse of the author
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