Rebelais. Three good giants

Today's free book is Three good giants whose famous deeds are recorded in the ancient chronicles of Francois Rebelais by John Dimitry (1887) with illustrations by Gustave Dore and A. Robida. For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available at UFDC (I have not checked for other online sources).


Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1. How the First Giants came into the World

CHAPTER 2. Gargantua is Born 

CHAPTER 3. Gargantua as a Baby 

CHAPTER 4. The Royal Tailor's Bill for Gargantua's Suit 

CHAPTER 5. The Year Gargantua had Wooden Horses, and what Use he made of them

CHAPTER 6. How Gargantua was taught Latin 

CHAPTER 7. The new Master found for Gargantua 

CHAPTER 8. Gargantua goes to Paris, and the Big Mare that takes him there 

CHAPTER 9. The Parisians laugh at Gargantua. He takes his Revenge by stealing the Great Bells of Notre Dame 

CHAPTER 10. Ponocrates, the new Teacher, desires Gargantua to show him how he used to study with old Alaster Holoferues

CHAPTER 11. 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 12. Gargantua is dosed by Ponocrates, and forgets all that Holofernes had taught him 

CHAPTER 13. How Gargantua was made not to lose one Hour of the Day

CHAPTER 14. How the Awful War between the Bunmakers of Lerne and Gargantua's Country was begun 

CHAPTER 15. How old King Grandgousier received the News

CHAPTER 16. How Grandgousier tried to buy Peace with Five Cart-loads of Buns 

CHAPTER 17. How Gargantua, with a Big Tree, broke down a Castle, and passed the Ford of Vede

CHAPTER 18. How Gargantua combed Cannon-Balis out of his Hair, and how he ate Six Pilgrims in a Salad before Supper 

CHAPTER 19. How Friar John comes to the Feast, and how King Grandgousier had recruited his Army 

CHAPTER 20. Gargantua's Mare scores a Victory 

CHAPTER 21. Showing what Gargantua did after the Battle, and how Grandgousier welcomed him Home 

CHAPTER 22. Grandgousier's Death. Gargantua's Marriage. Pantagruel is Born 

CHAPTER 23. The Strange Things Pantagruel did as a Baby

CHAPTER 24. After studying at several Universities, Pantagruel goes to Paris 

CHAPTER 25. Pantagruel finds Panurge, whom he loves all his life

CHAPTER 26. Pantagruel beats the Sorbonne in Argument, and Panurge proves that an Englishman's fingers are not so nimble as a Frenchman's

CHAPTER 27. What sort of Man Panurge was, and the many Tricks he knew 

CHAPTER 28. Showing why the Leagues are so much shorter in France than in Germany 

CHAPTER 29. How the Cunning of Panurge, with the Aid of Eusthenes and Carpalim, discomfited Six Hundred and Sixty Horsemen

CHAPTER 30. How Carpalim went hunting for Fresh Meat, and how a Trophy was set up 

CHAPTER 31. The Strange Way in which Pantagruel obtained a Victory over the Thirsty People 

CHAPTER 32. The Wonderful Way in which Pantagruel disposed of the Giant Loupgarou and his Two Hundred and Ninety-Nine Giants

CHAPTER 33. How Pantagruel finally conquers the Thirsty People, and the strange business Panurge finds for King Anarchus 

CHAPTER 34. Gargantua comes back from Fairy-Land, after which Pantagruel prepares for another Trip 

CHAPTER 35. Pantagruel starts on his Travels, and lands at the Island of Pictures 

CHAPTER 36. Panurge bargains with Dindeno for a Ram, and throws his Ram overboard

CHAPTER 37. The Island of Alliances 

CHAPTER 38. How Pantagruel came to the Islands of Tohu and Bohu. The Strange Death of Widenostrils, the Swallower of Windmills

CHAPTER 39. A Great Storm, in which Panurge plays the Coward

CHAPTER 40. The Island of the Macreons and its Forest, in which the Heroes who are tempted by Demons die 

CHAPTER 41. 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 42. Pantagruel, with his Darts, kills a Monster which Cannon-Balls could not hurt. The Power of the Sign of the Cross

CHAPTER 43. Which tells of several Islands, and the Wonderful People who dwell in them