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
Chapters
1 Prologue 17 min 2 How Pantagruel arrived at the Ringing Island, and of the noise that we heard 7 min 3 How the Ringing Island had been inhabited by the Siticines, who were become birds 6 min 4 How there is but one pope-hawk in the Ringing Island 6 min 5 How the birds of the Ringing Island were all passengers 6 min 6 Of the dumb Knight-hawks of the Ringing Island 5 min 7 How the birds are crammed in the Ringing Island 6 min 8 How Panurge related to Master Aedituus the fable of the horse and the ass 13 min 9 How with much ado we got a sight of the pope-hawk 8 min 10 How we arrived at the island of Tools 7 min 11 How Pantagruel arrived at the island of Sharping 6 min 12 How we passed through the wicket inhabited by Gripe-men-all, Archduke of the Furred Law-cats 11 min 13 How Gripe-men-all propounded a riddle to us 7 min 14 How Panurge solved Gripe-men-all's riddle 7 min 15 How the Furred Law-cats live on corruption 6 min 16 How Friar John talks of rooting out the Furred Law-cats 14 min 17 How Pantagruel came to the island of the Apedefers, or Ignoramuses, with long claws and crooked paws, and of terrible adventures and monsters there 17 min 18 How we went forwards, and how Panurge had like to have been killed 6 min 19 How our ships were stranded, and we were relieved by some people that were subject to Queen Whims (qui tenoient de la Quinte) 11 min 20 How we arrived at the queendom of Whims or Entelechy 7 min 21 How the Quintessence cured the sick with a song 9 min 22 How the Queen passed her time after dinner 8 min 23 How Queen Whims' officers were employed; and how the said lady retained us among her abstractors 8 min 24 How the Queen was served at dinner, and of her way of eating 6 min 25 How there was a ball in the manner of a tournament, at which Queen Whims was present 7 min 26 How the thirty-two persons at the ball fought 15 min 27 How we came to the island of Odes, where the ways go up and down 6 min 28 How we came to the island of Sandals; and of the order of Semiquaver Friars 16 min 29 How Panurge asked a Semiquaver Friar many questions, and was only answered in monosyllables 14 min 30 How Epistemon disliked the institution of Lent 8 min 31 How we came to the land of Satin 13 min 32 How in the land of Satin we saw Hearsay, who kept a school of vouching 8 min 33 How we came in sight of Lantern-land 2 min 34 How we landed at the port of the Lychnobii, and came to Lantern-land 6 min 35 How we arrived at the Oracle of the Bottle 7 min 36 How we went underground to come to the Temple of the Holy Bottle, and how Chinon is the oldest city in the world 4 min 37 How we went down the tetradic steps, and of Panurge's fear 8 min 38 How the temple gates in a wonderful manner opened of themselves 5 min 39 Of the Temple's admirable pavement 4 min 40 How we saw Bacchus's army drawn up in battalia in mosaic work 7 min 41 How the battle in which the good Bacchus overthrew the Indians was represented in mosaic work 6 min 42 How the temple was illuminated with a wonderful lamp 5 min 43 How the Priestess Bacbuc showed us a fantastic fountain in the temple, and how the fountain-water had the taste of wine, according to the imagination of those who drank of it 24 min 44 How the Priestess Bacbuc equipped Panurge in order to have the word of the Bottle 7 min 45 How Bacbuc, the high-priestess, brought Panurge before the Holy Bottle 4 min 46 How Bacbuc explained the word of the Goddess-Bottle 5 min 47 How Panurge and the rest rhymed with poetic fury 5 min 48 How we took our leave of Bacbuc, and left the Oracle of the Holy Bottle 5 min
