Three Good Giants

About this eBook

Author

Rabelais, François, 1490?-1553?

Title

Three Good Giants Whose Ancient Deeds are recorded in the Ancient Chronicles

Credits

Produced by Clare Graham in memory of Marc D'Hooghe

Language

English

LoC Class

PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres

Subject

Tailors -- Juvenile fiction

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 59235

Release Date

April 9, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.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.
2. 2.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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