- 1Book I — Translated Into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty…
- 2Book II
- 3Book III
- 4Book IV
- 5Book V
- 6Introduction
- 7Francis Rabelais
- 8The Author’s Prologue to the First Book
- 9Chapter 1 — I — Of the Genealogy and Antiquity of Gargantua
- 10Chapter 1 — II — -The Antidoted Fanfreluches: Or, a Galimatia of Ex…
- 11Chapter 1 — III — How Gargantua Was Carried Eleven Months in His Mo…
- 12Chapter 1 — IV — -How Gargamelle, Being Great With Gargantua, Did E…
- 13Chapter 1 — V — The Discourse of the Drinkers
- 14Chapter 1 — VI — How Gargantua Was Born in a Strange Manner
- 15Chapter 1 — VII — After What Manner Gargantua Had His Name Given Hi…
- 16Chapter 1 — VIII — How They Apparelled Gargantua
- 17Chapter 1 — IX — The Colours and Liveries of Gargantua
- 18Chapter 1 — X — Of That Which Is Signified by the Colours White and…
- 19Chapter 1 — XI — Of the Youthful Age of Gargantua
- 20Chapter 1 — XII — Of Gargantua’s Wooden Horses
- 21Chapter 1 — XIII — How Gargantua’s Wonderful Understanding Became K…
- 22Chapter 1 — XIV — How Gargantua Was Taught Latin by a Sophister
- 23Chapter 1 — XV — How Gargantua Was Put Under Other Schoolmasters
- 24Chapter 1 — XVI — How Gargantua Was Sent to Paris, and of the Huge…
- 25Chapter 1 — XVII — How Gargantua Paid His Welcome to the Parisians,…
- 26Chapter 1 — XVIII — How Janotus de Bragmardo Was Sent to Gargantua…
- 27Chapter 1 — XIX — The Oration of Master Janotus de Bragmardo for Re…
- 28Chapter 1 — XX — How the Sophister Carried Away His Cloth, and How…
- 29Chapter 1 — XXI — The Study of Gargantua, According to the Discipli…
- 30Chapter 1 — XXII — The Games of Gargantua
- 31Chapter 1 — XXIII — How Gargantua Was Instructed by Ponocrates, and…
- 32Chapter 1 — XXIV — How Gargantua Spent His Time in Rainy Weather
- 33Chapter 1 — XXV — How There Was Great Strife and Debate Raised Betw…
- 34Chapter 1 — XXVI — How the Inhabitants of Lerne, by the Commandment…
- 35Chapter 1 — XXVII — How a Monk of Seville Saved the Close of the Ab…
- 36Chapter 1 — xxviii — How Picrochole Stormed and Took by Assault the…
- 37Chapter 1 — XXIX — The Tenour of the Letter Which Grangousier Wrote…
- 38Chapter 1 — XXX — How Ulric Gallet Was Sent Unto Picrochole
- 39Chapter 1 — XXXI — The Speech Made by Gallet to Picrochole
- 40Chapter 1 — XXXII — How Grangousier, to Buy Peace, Caused the Cakes…
- 41Chapter 1 — xxxiii — How Some Statesmen of Picrochole, by Hairbrain…
- 42Chapter 1 — XXXIV — How Gargantua Left the City of Paris to Succour…
- 43Chapter 1 — XXXV — How Gymnast Very Souply and Cunningly Killed Cap…
- 44Chapter 1 — XXXVI — How Gargantua Demolished the Castle at the Ford…
- 45Chapter 1 — xxxvii — How Gargantua, in Combing His Head, Made the G…
- 46Chapter 1 — xxxviii — How Gargantua Did Eat Up Six Pilgrims in a Salad
- 47Chapter 1 — XXXIX — How the Monk Was Feasted by Gargantua, and of t…
- 48Chapter 1 — XL — Why Monks Are the Outcasts of the World; and Where…
- 49Chapter 1 — XLI — How the Monk Made Gargantua Sleep, and of His Hou…
- 50Chapter 1 — XLII — How the Monk Encouraged His Fellow-Champions, an…
- 51Chapter 1 — XLIII — How the Scouts and Fore-Party of Picrochole Wer…
- 52Chapter 1 — XLIV — How the Monk Rid Himself of His Keepers, and How…
- 53Chapter 1 — XLV — How the Monk Carried Along With Him the Pilgrims,…
- 54Chapter 1 — XLVI — How Grangousier Did Very Kindly Entertain Touchf…
- 55Chapter 1 — XLVII — How Grangousier Sent for His Legions, and How T…
- 56Chapter 1 — xlviii — How Gargantua Set Upon Picrochole Within the R…
- 57Chapter 1 — XLIX — How Picrochole in His Flight Fell Into Great Mis…
- 58Chapter 1 — L — Gargantua’s Speech to the Vanquished
- 59Chapter 1 — LI — How the Victorious Gargantuists Were Recompensed A…
- 60Chapter 1 — LII — How Gargantua Caused to Be Built for the Monk the…
- 61Chapter 1 — LIII — How the Abbey of the Thelemites Was Built and En…
- 62Chapter 1 — LIV — The Inscription Set Upon the Great Gate of Theleme
- 63Chapter 1 — LV — What Manner of Dwelling the Thelemites Had
- 64Chapter 1 — LVI — How the Men and Women of the Religious Order of T…
- 65Chapter 1 — LVII — How the Thelemites Were Governed, and of Their M…
- 66Chapter 1 — LVIII — A Prophetical Riddle
- 67The Second Book
- 68The Author’s Prologue
- 69The Second Book
- 70Chapter 2 — II — Of the Nativity of the Most Dread and Redoubted Pa…
- 71Chapter 2 — III — Of the Grief Wherewith Gargantua Was Moved at the…
- 72Chapter 2 — IV — Of the Infancy of Pantagruel
- 73Chapter 2 — V — Of the Acts of the Noble Pantagruel in His Youthful…
- 74Chapter 2 — VI — How Pantagruel Met With a Limousin, Who Too Affect…
- 75Chapter 2 — VII — How Pantagruel Came to Paris, and of the Choice B…
- 76Chapter 2 — VIII — How Pantagruel, Being at Paris, Received Letters…
- 77Chapter 2 — IX — How Pantagruel Found Panurge, Whom He Loved All Hi…
- 78Chapter 2 — X — How Pantagruel Judged So Equitably of a Controversy…
- 79Chapter 2 — XI — How the Lords of Kissbreech and Suckfist Did Plead…
- 80Chapter 2 — XII — How the Lord of Suckfist Pleaded Before Pantagruel
- 81Chapter 2 — XIII — How Pantagruel Gave Judgment Upon the Difference…
- 82Chapter 2 — XIV — How Panurge Related the Manner How He Escaped Out…
- 83Chapter 2 — XV — How Panurge Showed a Very New Way to Build the Wal…
- 84Chapter 2 — XVI — Of the Qualities and Conditions of Panurge
- 85Chapter 2 — XVII — How Panurge Gained the Pardons, and Married the…
- 86Chapter 2 — XVIII — How a Great Scholar of England Would Have Argue…
- 87Chapter 2 — XIX — How Panurge Put to a Nonplus the Englishman That…
- 88Chapter 2 — XX — How Thaumast Relateth the Virtues and Knowledge of…
- 89Chapter 2 — XXI — How Panurge Was in Love With a Lady of Paris
- 90Chapter 2 — XXII — How Panurge Served a Parisian Lady a Trick That…
- 91Chapter 2 — XXIII — How Pantagruel Departed From Paris…
- 92Chapter 2 — XXIV — A Letter Which a Messenger Brought to Pantagruel…
- 93Chapter 2 — XXV — How Panurge, Carpalin, Eusthenes, and Epistemon,…
- 94Chapter 2 — XXVI — How Pantagruel and His Company Were Weary in Eat…
- 95Chapter 2 — xxviii — How Pantagruel Got the Victory Very Strangely…
- 96Chapter 2 — XXIX — How Pantagruel Discomfited the Three Hundred Gia…
- 97Chapter 2 — XXX — How Epistemon, Who Had His Head Cut Off, Was Fine…
- 98Chapter 2 — XXXI — How Pantagruel Entered Into the City of the Amau…
- 99Chapter 2 — XXXII — How Pantagruel With His Tongue Covered a Whole…
- 100Chapter 2 — xxxiii — How Pantagruel Became Sick, and the Manner How…
- 101Chapter 2 — XXXIV — The Conclusion of This Present Book, and the Ex…
- 102The Third Book
- 103The Author’s Prologue
- 104The Third Book
- 105Chapter 3 — II — How Panurge Was Made Laird of Salmigondin in Dipso…
- 106Chapter 3 — III — How Panurge Praiseth the Debtors and Borrowers
- 107Chapter 3 — IV — Panurge Continueth His Discourse in the Praise of…
- 108Chapter 3 — V — How Pantagruel Altogether Abhorreth the Debtors and…
- 109Chapter 3 — VI — Why New Married Men Were Privileged From Going to…
- 110Chapter 3 — VII — How Panurge Had a Flea in His Ear, and Forbore to…
- 111Chapter 3 — VIII — Why the Codpiece Is Held to Be the Chief Piece o…
- 112Chapter 3 — IX — How Panurge Asketh Counsel of Pantagruel Whether H…
- 113Chapter 3 — X — How Pantagruel Representeth Unto Panurge the Diffic…
- 114Chapter 3 — XI — How Pantagruel Showeth the Trial of One’s Fortune…
- 115Chapter 3 — XII — How Pantagruel Doth Explore by the Virgilian Lott…
- 116Chapter 3 — XIII — How Pantagruel Adviseth Panurge to Try the Futur…
- 117Chapter 3 — XIV — Panurge’s Dream, With the Interpretation Thereof
- 118Chapter 3 — XV — Panurge’s Excuse and Exposition of the Monastic My…
- 119Chapter 3 — XVI — How Pantagruel Adviseth Panurge to Consult With t…
- 120Chapter 3 — XVII — How Panurge Spoke to the Sibyl of Panzoust
- 121Chapter 3 — XVIII — How Pantagruel and Panurge Did Diversely Expoun…
- 122Chapter 3 — XIX — How Pantagruel Praiseth the Counsel of Dumb Men
- 123Chapter 3 — XX — How Goatsnose by Signs Maketh Answer to Panurge
- 124Chapter 3 — XXI — How Panurge Consulteth With an Old French Poet, N…
- 125Chapter 3 — XXII — How Panurge Patrocinates and Defendeth the Order…
- 126Chapter 3 — XXIII — How Panurge Maketh the Motion of a Return to Ra…
- 127Chapter 3 — XXIV — How Panurge Consulteth With Epistemon
- 128Chapter 3 — XXV — How Panurge Consulteth With Herr Trippa
- 129Chapter 3 — XXVI — How Panurge Consulteth With Friar John of the Fu…
- 130Chapter 3 — XXVII — How Friar John Merrily and Sportingly Counselle…
- 131Chapter 3 — xxviii — How Friar John Comforteth Panurge in the Doubt…
- 132Chapter 3 — XXIX — How Pantagruel Convocated Together a Theologian,…
- 133Chapter 3 — XXX — How the Theologue, Hippothadee, Giveth Counsel to…
- 134Chapter 3 — XXXI — How the Physician Rondibilis Counselleth Panurge
- 135Chapter 3 — XXXII — How Rondibilis Declareth Cuckoldry to Be Natura…
- 136Chapter 3 — xxxiii — Rondibilis the Physician’s Cure of Cuckoldry
- 137Chapter 3 — XXXIV — How Women Ordinarily Have the Greatest Longing…
- 138Chapter 3 — XXXV — How the Philosopher Trouillogan Handleth the Dif…
- 139Chapter 3 — XXXVI — A Continuation of the Answer of the Ephectic an…
- 140Chapter 3 — xxxvii — How Pantagruel Persuaded Panurge to Take Couns…
- 141Chapter 3 — xxxviii — How Triboulet Is Set Forth and Blazed by Pant…
- 142Chapter 3 — XXXIX — How Pantagruel Was Present at the Trial of Judg…
- 143Chapter 3 — XL — How Bridlegoose Giveth Reasons Why He Looked Upon…
- 144Chapter 3 — XLI — How Bridlegoose Relateth the History of the Recon…
- 145Chapter 3 — XLII — How Suits at Law Are Bred at First, and How They…
- 146Chapter 3 — XLIII — How Pantagruel Excuseth Bridlegoose in the Matt…
- 147Chapter 3 — XLIV — How Pantagruel Relateth a Strange History of the…
- 148Chapter 3 — XLV — How Panurge Taketh Advice of Triboulet
- 149Chapter 3 — XLVI — How Pantagruel and Panurge Diversely Interpret t…
- 150Chapter 3 — XLVII — How Pantagruel and Panurge Resolved to Make a V…
- 151Chapter 3 — xlviii — How Gargantua Showeth That the Children Ought…
- 152Chapter 3 — XLIX — How Pantagruel Did Put Himself in a Readiness to…
- 153Chapter 3 — L — How the Famous Pantagruelion Ought to Be Prepared a…
- 154Chapter 3 — LI — Why It Is Called Pantagruelion, and of the Admirab…
- 155Chapter 3 — LII — How a Certain Kind of Pantagruelion Is of That Na…
- 156The Fourth Book
- 157The Author’s Epistle Dedicatory
- 158The Author’s Prologue
- 159The Fourth Book
- 160Chapter 4 — II — How Pantagruel Bought Many Rarities in the Island…
- 161Chapter 4 — III — How Pantagruel Received a Letter From His Father…
- 162Chapter 4 — IV — How Pantagruel Writ to His Father Gargantua, and S…
- 163Chapter 4 — V — How Pantagruel Met a Ship With Passengers Returning…
- 164Chapter 4 — VI — How, the Fray Being Over, Panurge Cheapened One of…
- 165Chapter 4 — VII — Which If You Read You’ll Find How Panurge Bargain…
- 166Chapter 4 — VIII — How Panurge Caused Dingdong and His Sheep to Be…
- 167Chapter 4 — IX — How Pantagruel Arrived at the Island of Ennasin, a…
- 168Chapter 4 — X — How Pantagruel Went Ashore at the Island of Chely,…
- 169Chapter 4 — XI — Why Monks Love to Be in Kitchens
- 170Chapter 4 — XII — How Pantagruel Passed by the Land of Pettifogging…
- 171Chapter 4 — XIII — How, Like Master Francis Villon, the Lord of Bas…
- 172Chapter 4 — XIV — A Further Account of Catchpoles Who Were Drubbed…
- 173Chapter 4 — XV — How the Ancient Custom at Nuptials Is Renewed by t…
- 174Chapter 4 — XVI — How Friar John Made Trial of the Nature of the Ca…
- 175Chapter 4 — XVII — How Pantagruel Came to the Islands of Tohu and B…
- 176Chapter 4 — XVIII — How Pantagruel Met With a Great Storm at Sea
- 177Chapter 4 — XIX — What Countenances Panurge and Friar John Kept Dur…
- 178Chapter 4 — XX — How the Pilots Were Forsaking Their Ships in the G…
- 179Chapter 4 — XXI — A Continuation of the Storm, With a Short Discour…
- 180Chapter 4 — XXII — An End of the Storm
- 181Chapter 4 — XXIII — How Panurge Played the Good Fellow When the Sto…
- 182Chapter 4 — XXIV — How Panurge Was Said to Have Been Afraid Without…
- 183Chapter 4 — XXV — How, After the Storm, Pantagruel Went on Shore in…
- 184Chapter 4 — XXVI — How the Good Macrobius Gave Us an Account of the…
- 185Chapter 4 — XXVII — Pantagruel’s Discourse of the Decease of Heroic…
- 186Chapter 4 — xxviii — How Pantagruel Related a Very Sad Story of the…
- 187Chapter 4 — XXIX — How Pantagruel Sailed by the Sneaking Island, Wh…
- 188Chapter 4 — XXX — How Shrovetide Is Anatomized and Described by Xen…
- 189Chapter 4 — XXXI — Shrovetide’s Outward Parts Anatomized
- 190Chapter 4 — XXXII — A Continuation of Shrovetide’s Countenance
- 191Chapter 4 — xxxiii — How Pantagruel Discovered a Monstrous Physeter…
- 192Chapter 4 — XXXIV — How the Monstrous Physeter Was Slain by Pantagruel
- 193Chapter 4 — XXXV — How Pantagruel Went on Shore in the Wild Island,…
- 194Chapter 4 — XXXVI — How the Wild Chitterlings Laid an Ambuscado for…
- 195Chapter 4 — xxxvii — How Pantagruel Sent for Colonel Maul-chitterli…
- 196Chapter 4 — xxxviii — How Chitterlings Are Not to Be Slighted by Men
- 197Chapter 4 — XXXIX — How Friar John Joined With the Cooks to Fight t…
- 198Chapter 4 — XL — How Friar John Fitted Up the Sow; and of the Valia…
- 199Chapter 4 — XLI — How Pantagruel Broke the Chitterlings at the Knees
- 200Chapter 4 — XLII — How Pantagruel Held a Treaty With Niphleseth, Qu…
- 201Chapter 4 — XLIII — How Pantagruel Went Into the Island of Ruach
- 202Chapter 4 — XLIV — How Small Rain Lays a High Wind
- 203Chapter 4 — XLV — How Pantagruel Went Ashore in the Island of Pope-…
- 204Chapter 4 — XLVI — How a Junior Devil Was Fooled by a Husbandman of…
- 205Chapter 4 — XLVII — How the Devil Was Deceived by an Old Woman of P…
- 206Chapter 4 — xlviii — How Pantagruel Went Ashore at the Island of Pa…
- 207Chapter 4 — XLIX — How Homenas, Bishop of Papimany, Showed Us the U…
- 208Chapter 4 — L — How Homenas Showed Us the Archetype, or Representat…
- 209Chapter 4 — LI — Table-talk in Praise of the Decretals
- 210Chapter 4 — LII — A Continuation of the Miracles Caused by the Decr…
- 211Chapter 4 — LIII — How by the Virtue of the Decretals, Gold Is Subt…
- 212Chapter 4 — LIV — How Homenas Gave Pantagruel Some bon-Christian Pears
- 213Chapter 4 — LV — How Pantagruel, Being at Sea, Heard Various Unfroz…
- 214Chapter 4 — LVI — How Among the Frozen Words Pantagruel Found Some…
- 215Chapter 4 — LVII — How Pantagruel Went Ashore at the Dwelling of Ga…
- 216Chapter 4 — LVIII — How, at the Court of the Master of Ingenuity, P…
- 217Chapter 4 — LIX — Of the Ridiculous Statue Manduce; and How and Wha…
- 218Chapter 4 — LX — What the Gastrolaters Sacrificed to Their God on I…
- 219Chapter 4 — LXI — How Gaster Invented Means to Get and Preserve Corn
- 220Chapter 4 — LXII — How Gaster Invented an Art to Avoid Being Hurt o…
- 221Chapter 4 — LXIII — How Pantagruel Fell Asleep Near the Island of C…
- 222Chapter 4 — LXIV — How Pantagruel Gave No Answer to the Problems
- 223Chapter 4 — LXV — How Pantagruel Passed the Time With His Servants
- 224Chapter 4 — LXVI — How, by Pantagruel’s Order, the Muses Were Salut…
- 225Chapter 4 — LXVII — How Panurge Berayed Himself for Fear; and of th…
- 226The Fifth Book
- 227The Fifth Book
- 228Chapter 5 — II — How the Ringing Island Had Been Inhabited by the S…
- 229Chapter 5 — III — How There Is but One Pope-Hawk in the Ringing Island
- 230Chapter 5 — IV — How the Birds of the Ringing Island Were All Passe…
- 231Chapter 5 — V — Of the Dumb Knight-hawks of the Ringing Island
- 232Chapter 5 — VI — How the Birds Are Crammed in the Ringing Island
- 233Chapter 5 — VII — How Panurge Related to Master Aedituus the Fable…
- 234Chapter 5 — VIII — How With Much Ado We Got a Sight of the Pope-Hawk
- 235Chapter 5 — IX — How We Arrived at the Island of Tools
- 236Chapter 5 — X — How Pantagruel Arrived at the Island of Sharping
- 237Chapter 5 — XI — How We Passed Through the Wicket Inhabited by Grip…
- 238Chapter 5 — XII — How Gripe-men-all Propounded a Riddle to Us
- 239Chapter 5 — XIII — How Panurge Solved Gripe-men-all’s Riddle
- 240Chapter 5 — XIV — How the Furred Law-cats Live on Corruption
- 241Chapter 5 — XV — How Friar John Talks of Rooting Out the Furred Law…
- 242Chapter 5 — XVI — How Pantagruel Came to the Island of the Apedefer…
- 243Chapter 5 — XVII — How We Went Forwards, and How Panurge Had Like t…
- 244Chapter 5 — XVIII — How Our Ships Were Stranded, and We Were Reliev…
- 245Chapter 5 — XIX — How We Arrived at the Queendom of Whims or Entelechy
- 246Chapter 5 — XX — How the Quintessence Cured the Sick With a Song
- 247Chapter 5 — XXI — How the Queen Passed Her Time After Dinner
- 248Chapter 5 — XXII — How Queen Whims’ Officers Were Employed; and How…
- 249Chapter 5 — XXIII — How the Queen Was Served at Dinner, and of Her…
- 250Chapter 5 — XXIV — How There Was a Ball in the Manner of a Tourname…
- 251Chapter 5 — XXV — How the Thirty-Two Persons at the Ball Fought
- 252Chapter 5 — XXVI — How We Came to the Island of Odes, Where the Way…
- 253Chapter 5 — XXVII — How We Came to the Island of Sandals; and of th…
- 254Chapter 5 — xxviii — How Panurge Asked a Semiquaver Friar Many Ques…
- 255Chapter 5 — XXIX — How Epistemon Disliked the Institution of Lent
- 256Chapter 5 — XXX — How We Came to the Land of Satin
- 257Chapter 5 — XXXI — How in the Land of Satin We Saw Hearsay, Who Kep…
- 258Chapter 5 — XXXII — How We Came in Sight of Lantern-land
- 259Chapter 5 — xxxiii — How We Landed at the Port of the Lychnobii, an…
- 260Chapter 5 — XXXIV — How We Arrived at the Oracle of the Bottle
- 261Chapter 5 — XXXV — How We Went Underground to Come to the Temple of…
- 262Chapter 5 — XXXVI — How We Went Down the Tetradic Steps, and of Pan…
- 263Chapter 5 — xxxvii — How the Temple Gates in a Wonderful Manner Ope…
- 264Chapter 5 — xxxviii — Of the Temple’s Admirable Pavement
- 265Chapter 5 — XXXIX — How We Saw Bacchus’s Army Drawn Up in Battalia…
- 266Chapter 5 — XL — How the Battle in Which the Good Bacchus Overthrew…
- 267Chapter 5 — XLI — How the Temple Was Illuminated With a Wonderful Lamp
- 268Chapter 5 — XLII — How the Priestess Bacbuc Showed Us a Fantastic F…
- 269Chapter 5 — XLIII — How the Priestess Bacbuc Equipped Panurge in Or…
- 270Chapter 5 — XLIV — How Bacbuc, the High-Priestess, Brought Panurge…
- 271Chapter 5 — XLV — How Bacbuc Explained the Word of the Goddess-Bottle
- 272Chapter 5 — XLVI — How Panurge and the Rest Rhymed With Poetic Fury
- 273Chapter 5 — XLVII — How We Took Our Leave of Bacbuc, and Left the O…
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