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