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Penguin Putnam Inc Great Expectations
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories Signet
Book SynopsisThe Call of the Wild is Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Harrison Ford!Out of the white wilderness, out of the Far North, Jack London, one of America’s most popular authors, drew the inspiration for his robust tales of perilous adventure and animal cunning. Swiftly paced and vividly written, the novel and five short stories included here capture the main theme of London’s work: the law of the club and the fang—man’s instinctive reversion to primitive behavior when pitted against the brute force of nature. Includes The Call of the Wild, Diable: A Dog, An Odyssey of the North, To the Man on the Trail, To Build a Fire, and Love of Life
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Penguin Publishing Group Ivanhoe
Book SynopsisDuring the Crusades, Wilifrid, a young Saxon knight, embarks on a series of adventures to prove himself worthy of the princess Rowena, fighting the Normans and the Templars?and allied with such figures as Robin Hood and Richard the Lionheart.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Far From the Madding Crowd
Book SynopsisGabriel Oaks observes Bathsheba Everdene, the young mistress of Weatherbury Farm, fall victim to bad decisions and romantic impulses, unaware of the stroke of fate that will finally bring about their union.
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Phantom of the Opera
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Penguin Putnam Inc Bleak House
Book SynopsisIn the fog of London, lawyers enrich themselves with endless litigation over a dwindling inheritance. A sterling example of Dickens''s genius for character, dramatic construction, and social satire, this novel was hailed by Edmund Wilson as a masterpiece.
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Penguin Publishing Group The Song of Roland
Book SynopsisOne of the crowning achievements of medieval literature, The Song of Roland tells the story of the battle of Roncesvals in 778 and enters into the very soul of a gallant, brutal, and tumultuous age.At the center of this heroic epic is Roland, the supreme embodiment of the chivalric ideal who leads his men into combat and fights valiantly to the death. But Roland is just one of the superbly defined figures in the panoramic drama. The poem’s vivid portrayals of Ganelon’s treason, Roland’s last stand, Charlemagne’s campaign of vengeance, and the final act of retribution are justly famous. Equally fascinating is the sophisticated use of repetition and juxtaposition that gives this work its remarkable organic unity and time-defying dimension of vision. As Robert Harrison, the translator of this acclaimed edition, explains, “The carefully balanced structure of The Song of Roland is designed like a folding mirror to reflect the battle between Good and Evil at all levels of meaning.” Quite possibly the oldest and surely the greatest chanson de geste, The Song of Roland is a sophisticated and enduring work that remains a masterpiece to this day.Translated and with an Introduction by Robert HarrisonAnd an Afterword by Guy Gavriel Kay
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Penguin Putnam Inc Middlemarch
Book SynopsisOne of the best-loved works of the nineteenth century, Middlemarch explores the complex social relationships in a town that moves and breathes with a life of its own.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Alices Adventures in Wonderland Through the
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Penguin Putnam Inc Andersens Fairy Tales Signet Classics
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Penguin Putnam Inc Little Women
Book SynopsisLouisa May Alcott shares the innocence of girlhood in this classic coming of age story about four sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. In picturesque nineteenth-century New England, tomboyish Jo, beautiful Meg, fragile Beth, and romantic Amy are responsible for keeping a home while their father is off to war. At the same time, they must come to terms with their individual personalities—and make the transition from girlhood to womanhood. It can all be quite a challenge. But the March sisters, however different, are nurtured by their wise and beloved Marmee, bound by their love for each other and the feminine strength they share. Readers of all ages have fallen instantly in love with these Little Women. Their story transcends time—making this novel endure as a classic piece of American literature that has captivated generations of readers with their charm, innocence, and wistful insights.This Signet Classics edition contains Little WomTrade Review.
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of
Book SynopsisTwo of Mark Twain's great American novels—together in one volume.THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYERTake a lighthearted, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, seen through the eyes of a very special boy named Tom Sawyer. It is a dreamlike summertime world of hooky and adventure, pranks and punishment, villains and first love, filled with memorable characters. Adults and young readers alike continue to enjoy this delightful classic of the promise and dreams of youth from one of America’s most beloved authors. ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINNHe has no mother, his father is a brutal drunkard, and he sleeps in a barrel. He’s Huck Finn—liar, sometime thief, and rebel against respectability. But when Huck meets a runaway slave named Jim, his life changes forever. On their exciting flight down the Mississippi aboard a raft, the boy nobody wanted matures into a young man of courage and conviction. As Ernest Hemingway said of
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Penguin Putnam Inc Journey to the Center of the Earth
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories
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Penguin Publishing Group The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Best of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde Collection
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Penguin Putnam Inc Little men
Book SynopsisAt Plumfield, an experimental school for boys, the little scholars can do very much as they please, even slide down banisters. For this is what writer Jo Bhaer, once Jo March of Little Women, always wanted: a house “swarming with boys…in all stages of…effervescence.” At the end of Little Women, Jo inherited the Plumfield estate from her diamond-in-the-rough Aunt March. Now she and her husband, Professor Bhaer, provide their irrepressible charges with a very different sort of education—and much love. In fact, Jo confesses, she hardly knows “which I like best, writing or boys.” Here is the story of the ragged orphan Nat, spoiled Stuffy, wild Dan, and all the other lively inhabitants of Plumfield, whose adventures have captivated generations of readers.Trade Review“A natural source of stories...she is, and is to be, the poet of children.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson “The novelist of children…the Thackeray, the Trollope, of the nursery and the schoolroom.”—Henry James“The best boys—in the literary sense—that we have ever come across.”—London Spectator
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Penguin Putnam Inc Frankenstein
Book SynopsisMore than 200 years after it was first published, Mary Shelley''s Frankenstein has stood the test of time as a gothic masterpiece—a classic work of horror that blurs the line between man and monster.“If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear.”For centuries, the story of Victor Frankenstein and the monster he created has held readers spellbound. On the surface, it is a novel of tense and steadily mounting dread. On a more profound level, it illuminates the triumph and tragedy of the human condition in its portrayal of a scientist who oversteps the bounds of conscience, and of a creature tortured by the solitude of a world in which he does not belong. A novel of almost hallucinatory intensity, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein represents one of the most striking flowerings of the Romantic imagination. With an Introduction by Douglas Clegg And an Afterword by Harold Bloom
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Penguin Publishing Group MobyDick Signet Classics
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LUP - University of Michigan Press The Heavenly Twins
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Dover Publications Inc. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Dover
Book SynopsisA fictional re-creation of Joyce's early life, this novel is a powerful portrait of the coming of age of a young man of unusual intelligence, sensitivity, and character.
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Dover Publications Around the World in Eighty Days
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Dover Publications Inc. A Christmas Carol
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Dover Publications Clouds of Witness
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Thames & Hudson Ltd A Humument
Book SynopsisThe final edition of the late Tom Phillips's defining masterpiece of postmodernism'. In 1966 the artist Tom Phillips discovered A Human Document (1892), an obscure Victorian romance by W.H. Mallock, and set himself the task of altering every page, by painting, collage or cut-up techniques, to create an entirely new version. Some of Mallock's original text remains intact and through the illustrated pages the character of Bill Toge, Phillips's anti-hero, and his romantic plight emerges. First published in 1973, A Humument as Phillips titled his altered book quickly established itself as a cult classic. From that point, the artist worked towards a complete revision of his original, adding new pages in successive editions. That process is now finished. This final edition presents an entirely new and complete version of A Humument. It includes a revised Introduction by the late artist, in which he reflects on the 50-year project, and 92 new illustrated pages.Trade Review'Simply astounding ... and addictive' - Stephen Fry'One of the most original, fascinating and lovely books of all time' - Brian Eno'The closest thing a book has come to being an art object' - The New York Times'Sly, humorous, erotic and endlessly fascinating' - Edward Lucie-Smith, Sunday Times'A teeming world of humour, sex, sadness and art' - London Review of Books'Turns a forgotten work into a thing of rare beauty' - Bernard Levin, Sunday Times'Intricate, philosophical, romantic ... and often funny' - Michael Kustow, Guardian'One of the freshest and most original pieces of art literary work you are likely to see' - The Spectator
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University of California Press The Complete Works of Francois Rabelais
Book SynopsisRip-roaring and rib-tickling, Francois Rabelais' irreverent story of the giant Gargantua, his giant son Pantagruel, and their companion Panurge is a classic of the written word. This translation, annotated for the nonspecialist, brings to twentieth-century English all the exuberance and invention of the original sixteenth-century French.Trade Review"What Rabelais rubs our noses in is not dirt but the remarkable fact that man is a kind of sewer with a holy spirit hovering over it. [His work] stands, along with Montaigne, Machiavelli, Hamlet, Don Quixote and perhaps Goethe's Faust, as a signpost of the European culture to which we are all to give allegiance. . . . Frame's translation is worth having." -- Anthony Burgess, * Times Literary Supplement (TLS) *Table of ContentsAbbreviations Foreword Translator's Note Introduction BOOK 1 The Very Horrific Life of the Great Gargantua, Father of Pantagruel To The Readers Author's Prologue 1. Of the genealogy and antiquity of Gargantua. 2. The antidoted Frigglefraggles, found in an ancient monument. 3. How Gargantua was carried eleven months in his mother's belly. 4. How Gargamelle, while pregnant with Gargantua, ate a great abundance of tripes. 5. The palaver of the potted. 6. How Gargantua was born in a very strange fashion. 7. How the name was given to Gargantua, and how he inhaled the piot wine. 8. How they dressed Gargantua. 9. Of the colors and livery of Gargantua. 10. Of what is signified by the colors white and blue. 11. Of the childhood of Gargantua. 12. Of Gargantua's hobbyhorses. 13. How Grandgousier recognized the marvelous mind of Gargantua by the invention of an ass-wipe. 14. How Gargantua was instructed by a sophist in Latin letters. 15. How Gargantua was put under other teachers. 16. How Gargantua was sent to Paris, and of the enormous mare that bore him, and how she killed the ox-flies of Beauce. 17. How Gargantua paid his welcome to the Parisians and how he took the great bells of Notre Dame Church. 18. How Janotus de Bragmardo was sent to recover the great bells from Gargantua. 19. The harangue of Master Janotus de Bragmardo to Gargantua to recover the bells. 20. How the sophist took home his cloth and how he had a suit against the other masters. 21. Gargantua' s mode of study according to the teaching of his sophist tutors. 22. Gargantua's games. 23. How Gargantua was taught by Ponocrates in such a regimen that he did not waste an hour of the day. 24. How Gargantua used his time when the air was rainy. 25. How there was aroused between the fouaciers of Lerne and the men of Gargantua's country a great dispute from which were built up great wars. 26. How the inhabitants of Leme, at the command of Picrochole, their king, made an unexpected attack on Gargantua's shepherds. 27. How a monk of Seuille saved the abbey close from being sacked by the enemy. 28. How Picrochole took by storm La Roche Clermauld, and the regret and difficulty that Grandgousier felt about undertaking war. 29. The tenor of the letter that Grandgousier wrote to Gargantua. 30. How Ulrich Gallet was sent to Picrochole. 31. The speech made by Ulrich Gallet to Picrochole. 32. How Grandgousier, to buy peace, had the fouaces returned. 33. How certain counselors of Picrochole, by rash advice, placed him in the utmost peril. 34. How Gargantua left the city of Paris to succor his country, and how Gymnaste met the enemy. 35. How Gymnaste killed Captain Tripet and others of Picrochole's army. 36. How Gargantua demolished the chateau of the Ford of Vede, and how they crossed the ford. 37. How Gargantua, in combing his hair, made artillery shells fall out of it. 38. How Gargantua in a salad ate six pilgrims. 39. How the monk was feasted by Gargantua, and his fine talk at supper. 40. Why monks are shunned by everyone and why some people have bigger noses than others. 41. How the monk put Gargantua to sleep, and of his hours and breviary. 42. How the monk encourages his companions and how he hanged from a tree. 43. How Picrochole's scouting party was met by Gargantua, and how the monk killed Captain Tiravant [Forward March], and then was taken prisoner by the enemy. 44. How the monk got rid of his guards, and how Picrochole's scouting party was defeated. 45. How the monk brought the pilgrims, and the kind words that Grandgousier spoke to them. 46. How Grandgousier humanely treated his prisoner Blowhard. 47. How Grandgousier sent for his legions, and how Blowhard killed Hastycalf, then was killed by order of Picrochole. 48. How Gargantua attacked Picrochole in La Roche Clermauld, and defeated the said Picrochole's army. 49. How Picrochole in flight was surprised by ill fortune, and what Gargantua did after the battle. 50. The speech that Gargantua made to the vanquished. 51. How the Gargantuist victors were rewarded after the battle. 52. How Gargantua built for the monk the abbey of Theleme. 53. How the abbey of the Thelemites was built and endowed. 54. Inscription placed over the great gate of Theleme. 55. How the manor of the Thelemites ran. 56. How the religious of Theleme, men and women, were dressed. 57. How the Thelemites were regulated in their way oflife. 58. A prophetic riddle. BOOK 2 Pantagruel, King of the Dipsodes, Restored to His Natural State with His Frightful Deeds and Exploits Dizain by Master Hugues Salel "To the Author of this Book" Prologue of the Author 1. Of the origin and antiquity of the great Pantagruel. 2. Of the nativity of the highly redoubtable Pantagruel. 3. How Gargantua mourned for the death of his wife Badebec. 4. Of Pantagruel's childhood. 5. Of the deeds of the noble Pantagruel in his youth. 6. How Pantagruel met a Limousin who counterfeited the French language. 7. How Pantagruel came to Paris, and of the fair books of the Library of Saint-Victor. 8. How Pantagruel, while in Paris, received a letter from his father Gargantua, and a copy of the same. 9. How Pantagruel found Panurge, whom he loved all his life. 10. How Pantagruel equitably judged a marvelously difficult and obscure controversy, so justly that his judgment was pronounced most admirable. 11. How Lords Kissass and Sniffshit pleaded before Pantagruel without advocates. 12. How Lord Sniffshit pleaded before Pantagruel. 13. How Pantagruel gave his decision on the disagreement between the two lords. 14. How Panurge relates the way in which he escaped from the hands of the Turks. 15. How Panurge teaches a very new way of building the walls of Paris. 16. Of the ways and dispositions of Pan urge. 17. How Panurge got pardons and married off old women, and of the lawsuits he had in Paris. 18. How a great scholar from England wanted to debate against Pantagruel, and was vanquished by Panurge. 19. How Panurge made a monkey of the Englishman who argued by signs. 20. How Thaumaste recounts the virtues and knowledge of Panurge. 21. How Panurge was smitten by a great lady of Paris. 22. How Panurge played a trick on the Parisian lady that was not at all to her advantage. 23. How Pantagruel left Paris, hearing news that the Dipsodes were invading the land of the Amaurots, and the reason why the leagues are so short in France. 24. A letter that a messenger brought to Pantagruel from a lady of Paris, and the explanation of a phrase inscribed in a gold ring. 25. How Panurge, Carpalim, Eusthenes, Epistemon, Pantagruel's companions, very subtly defeated six hundred and sixty knights. 26. How Pantagruel and his companions were fed up with eating salt meat, and how Carpalim went hunting to get some venison. 27. How Pantagruel set up a trophy in memory of their exploits, and Pan urge another in memory of the hares. How Pantagruel of his farts engendered the little men, and of his fizzles the little women, and how Panurge broke a big stick over two glasses. 28. How Pantagruel won the victory very strangely over the Dipsodes and giants. 29. How Pantagruel defeated the three hundred giants armed with freestone and their captain Werewolf. 30. How Epistemon had his chop headed off, was cleverly cured by Panurge, and how they got some news of the devils and the damned. 31. How Pantagruel entered the city of the Amaurots and how Pan urge married off King Anarche and made him a hawker of green sauce. 32. How Pantagruel with his tongue covered a whole army, and what the author saw inside his mouth. 33. How Pantagruel was sick, and the way in which he got well. 34. The conclusion of the present book, and the author's excuse. BOOK 3 The Third Book of the Heroic Deeds and Sayings of the Good Pantagruel Francois Rabelais: "To the Spirit of the Queen of Navarre" Royal Privilege (of 1545) Royal Privilege (of 1550) Prologue of the Author, Master Frans;ois Rabelais 1. How Pantagruel transported a colony of Utopians into Dipsody. 2. How Panurge was made lord of Salmagundi in Dipsody and ate his wheat in the blade. 3. How Panurge praises debtors and creditors. 4. Continuation of Panurge's speech in praise of creditors and debtors. 5. How Pantagruel detests debtors and creditors. 6. Why newlyweds were exempt from going to war. 7. How Pan urge had a flea in his ear, and left off wearing his magnificent codpiece. 8. How the codpiece is the first piece of harness among warriors. 9. How Panurge takes counsel ofPantagruel to learn whether he should marry. 10. How Pantagruel points out to Panurge that advice about marriage is a difficult thing, and of Homeric and Virgilian lots. 11. How Pantagruel points out that fortune-telling by throwing dice is unlawful. 12. How Pantagruel explores by Virgilian lots what sort of marriage Panurge's will be. 13. How Pantagruel advises Panurge to foresee by dreams the fortune or misfortune of his marriage. 14. Panurge's dream and the interpretation thereof. 15. Pan urge's excuse and exposition of the monastic cabala in the matter of salt beef. 16. How Pantagruel advises Panurge to consult with a sibyl of Panzoust. 17. How Pan urge speaks to the sibyl of Panzoust. 18. How Pantagruel and Panurge diversely interpret the verses of the sibyl of Panzoust. 19. How Pantagruel praises the counsel of mutes. 20. How Goatsnose replies to Panurge in signs. 21. How Panurge takes counsel of an old French poet named Raminagrobis. 22. How Panurge champions the order of the mendicant friars. 23. How Panurge makes a speech for returning to Raminagrobis. 24. How Panurge takes counsel of Epistemon. 25. How Panurge takes counsel of Her Trippa. 26. How Panurge takes counsel of Frere Jean des Entommeures. 27. How Frere Jean joyously advises Panurge. 28. How Frere Jean comforts Panurge about his fear of cuckoldry. 29. How Pantagruel calls a meeting of a theologian, a doctor, a jurist, and a philosopher to help Panurge's perplexity. 30. How Hippothadee, the theologian, gives advice to Panurge on the undertaking of marriage. 31. How Rondibilis, the doctor, advises Panurge. 32. How Rondibilis declares that cuckoldry is naturally one of the attributes of marriage. 33. How Rondibilis, the doctor, gives a remedy for cuckoldry. 34. How women ordinarily covet forbidden things. 35. How Trouillogan, the philosopher, treats the difficulty of marriage. 36. Continuation of the replies of Trouillogan, the ephectic and Pyrrhonian philosopher. 37. How Pantagruel persuades Panurge to take counsel of some fool. 38. How Triboullet is blazoned by Pantagruel and Panurge. 39. How Pantagruel attends the trial of Judge Bridoye, who decided lawsuits by the chance of dice. 40. How Bridoye explains the reasons why he examined the lawsuits that he decided by the chance of dice. 41. How Bridoye tells the story of the settler of lawsuits. 42. How lawsuits are born, and how they come to perfection. 43. How Pantagruel excuses Bridoye about the verdicts rendered by the chance of dice. 44. How Epistemon tells a strange story of the perplexities of human judgment. 45. How Panurge takes counsel of Triboullet. 46. How Pantagruel and Panurge diversely interpret the words of Triboullet. 4 7. How Pantagruel and Pan urge decide to visit the oracle of the Divine Bottle. 48. How Gargantua points out that it is not lawful for children to marry without the knowledge and consent of their fathers and mothers. 49. How Pantagruel made his preparations to put out to sea and of the herb named Pantagruelion. 50. How the famous Pantagruelion is to be prepared and put to use. 51. Why it is called Pantagruelion, and of the admirable virtues thereof 52. How a certain kind of Pantagruelion cannot be consumed by fire. BOOK 4 The Fourth Book of the Heroic Deeds and Sayings of the Good Pantagmel Old Prologue Liminary Epistle (of January 28, 1552) "To the Very Illustrious Prince and Most Reverend Monseigneur Odet, Cardinal de Chastillon" Prologue of the Author M. Francois Rabelais 1. How Pantagruel put out to sea to visit the oracle of the divine Bacbuc. 2. How on the island of Medamothi Pantagruel bought several beautiful things. 3. How Pantagruel received a letter from his father Gargantua and of a strange way of getting news very promptly from distant foreign countries. 4. How Pantagruel writes to his father Gargantua and sends him several rare and beautiful things. 5. How Pantagruel encountered a ship with travelers returning from Lanternland. 6. How, with the dispute pacified, Panurge bargains with Dindenault for one of his sheep. 7. Continuation of the bargaining between Pan urge and Dindenault. 8. How Panurge had the merchant and the sheep drowned at sea. 9. How Pantagruel reached the island of Ennasin, and of the strange relationships of the country. 10. How Pantagruel went ashore on the island of Cheli, which was rul.!;d by King Saint Panigon. 11. Why monks like to be in the kitchen. 12. How Pantagruel passed Procuration, and of the strange way of life among the Shysteroos. 13. How, after the example of Master Franois Villon, the lord of Basche praises his people. 14. Continuation of the Shysteroos drubbed in the house of Basche. 15. How by Shysteroos are renewed the ancient wedding customs. 16. How Fn!re Jean makes trial of the nature of the Shysteroos. 17. How Pantagruel passed the islands of Tohu and Bohu, and of the strange death ofBringuenarilles, the windmill-swallower. 18. How Pantagruel came safely through a mighty tempest at sea. 19. How Panurge and Frere Jean behaved during the tempest. 20. How quartermasters abandon ship at the height of the tempest. 21. Continuation of the tempest, and brief discourse on wills made at sea. 22. End of the tempest. 23. How, with the tempest over, Panurge plays the jolly good fellow. 24. How by Frere Jean Panurge is declared to have been scared without reason during the storm. 25. How after the tempest Pantagruel went ashore on the islands of the Macraeons. 26. How the good Macrobe tells Pantagruel about the abode and departure of heroes. 27. How Pantagruel discourses on the departure of certain heroic souls, and of the horrific prodigies that accompanied the demise of the late lord of Langey. 28. How Pantagruel relates a piteous story concerning the decease of heroes. 29. How Pantagruel passed the island of Coverup, which was ruled by Fastilent. 30. How Fastilent is anatomized and described by Xenomanes. 31. Anatomy of Fastilent as regards the outward parts. 32. Continuation of Fastilent's physical features. 33. How Pantagruel sighted a monstrous physeter near the Wild Island. 34. How Pantagruel slew the monstrous physeter. 35. How Pantagruel goes ashore on the Wild Island, ancient abode of the Chitterlings. 36. How an ambush is laid against Pantagruel by the wild Chitterlings. 37. How Pantagruel sent for Captains Gobblechitterling and Chopsausage, with a noteworthy discourse on the proper names of places and persons. 38. How Chitterlings are not to be despised among humans. 39. How Frere Jean joins forces with the cooks to combat the Chitterlings. 40. How Frere Jean is set up in the sow and the valiant cooks are enclosed in it. 41. How Pantagruel snapped the Chitterlings over his knee. 42. How Pantagruel parleys with Niphleseth, queen of the Chitterlings. 43. How Pantagruel went ashore on the island of Ruach. 44. How little rains beat down great winds. 45. How Pantagruel went ashore on the island of the Popefigs. 46. How the little devil was fooled by a farmer from Popefigland. 47. How the devil was fooled by an old woman of Popefigland. 48. How Pantagruel went ashore on the island of the Papimaniacs. 49. How Grosbeak, bishop of the Papimaniacs, showed us the uranopete Decretals. 50. How by Grosbeak we were shown the archetype of a pope. 51. Small talk during dinner in praise of the Decretals. 52. Continuation of the miracles occasioned by the Decretals. 53. How by virtue of the Decretals gold is subtly drawn from France into Rome. 54. How Grosbeak gave Pantagruel some good-Christian pears. 55. How on the high seas Pantagruel heard some unfrozen words. 56. How among the frozen words Pantagruel found some lusty jests. 57. How Pantagruel went ashore at the abode of Messere Gaster, first master of arts in the world. 58. How in the court of the ingenious master, Pantagruel detested the Engastrimyths and the Gastrolaters. 59. Of the ridiculous statue called Manduce, and how and what the Gastrolaters sacrificed to their ventripotent god. 60. How, on the interlarded fast-days, the Gastrolaters sacrifice to their god. 61. How Gaster invented the methods of getting and preserving grain. 62. How Gaster invented an art and means not to be wounded or touched by cannon shots. 63. How Pantagruel took a nap near the island of Chaneph, and of the problems proposed when he waked. 64. How no answer was given by Pantagruel to the problems proposed. 65. How Pantagruel enjoys his time with his household. 66. How, near the island of Ganabin, at Pantagruel's commandment the muses were saluted. 67. How Panurge beshat himself in panic fear and thought the great cat Rodilardus was a devilkin. Brief Declaration BOOK 5 The Fifth and Last Book of the Heroic Deeds and Sayings of the Good Pantagruel Prologue by M. Francois Rabelais 1. How Pantagruel arrived on the Ringing Island, and of the noise we heard. 2. How the Ringing Island was inhabited by Siticines, who had turned into birds. 3. How on the Ringing Island there is only one Popehawk. 4. How the birds of the Ringing Island are all birds of passage. 5. How the Gourmander birds are mute on the Ringing Island. 6. How the birds of the Ringing Island are fed. 7. How Pan urge tells Aeditus the fable of the charger and the donkey. 8. How Popehawk was shown us with great difficulty. 9. How we went ashore on the island of Ironware. 10. How Pantagruel arrived on Sharpers' Island. 11. How we passed the Wicket, abode of Clutchpuss, archduke of the Furred Cats. 12. How a riddle is propounded by Clutchpuss. 13. How Panurge explains Clutchpuss's riddle. 14. How the Furred Cats live on corruption. 15. How Frere Jean des Entommeures determines to sack the Furred Cats. 16. How we passed Beyond, and how Panurge nearly got killed there. 17. How we ran aground, and how we were helped by some travelers from dependencies of the Quint. 18. How we reached the kingdom of Quint Essence, named Entelechy. 19. How the Quint Essence cured the sick by songs. 20. How the queen spent her time after dinner. 21. How the officers of the Quint operate diversely, and how the queen kept us on in the estate of Abstractors. 22. How the queen was served at supper, and how she ate. 23. How, in the presence of the Quint, was performed a joyous ball in the form of a tourney. 24. How the thirty-two persons in the ball fight. 25. How we went ashore on the island of Odes, where the roads go places. 26. How we stopped on the island of Clogs, and of the order of the Semiquaver [Minimal] Friars. 27. How Panurge, questioning a Semiquaver Friar, got no answer from him except in monosyllables. 28. How Epistemon dislikes the institution of Lent. 676 29. How we visited the land of Satin. 30. How in the land of Satin we saw Hearsay running a school for witnesses. 31. How we came in sight ofLanternland. 32. How we disembarked at the port of the Lichnobians and entered Lanternland. 33. How we reached the oracle of the Bottle. 34. How we went underground to enter the temple of the Bottle, and how Chinon is the first city in the world. 35. How we went down the tetradic steps, and of Panurge's fear. 36. How the doors of the temple opened of themselves. 37. How the temple was paved with an admirable mosaic. 38. How in the temple's mosaic work was represented the battle that Bacchus won against the Indians. 39. How in the mosaic was pictured the clash and assault of good old Bacchus against the Indians. 40. How the temple was lighted by a marvelous lamp. 41. How the pontiff Bacbuc showed us a fantastic fountain inside the temple. 42. How the water of the fountain gave a taste of wines to suit the imagination of those who drank it. 43. How Bacbuc accoutered Pan urge to get the word of the Bottle. 44. How the pontiff Bacbuc presented Pan urge before the said Bottle. 45. How Bacbuc interprets the word of the Bottle. 46. How Panurge and the others rhyme in poetic frenzy. 47. How, after taking leave ofBacbuc, they leave the oracle of the Bottle. A16. How Pantagruel arrives on the island of the Apedeftes, with their long fingers and crooked hands, and of the terrible adventures and monsters he found there. A32. How the lady lanterns were served at supper. 6 Miscellaneous Writings 1. To Guillaume Bude. March 4, 1521. Letter in Latin, with much Greek. 2. To Andre Tiraqueau. 1524. Epistle in Greek verse. 3. To Jean Bouchet. September 6, 1524. Epistle in French verse. 4. TiraqueaufManardi. July 9, 1532. Dedicatory Epistle for Volume II of the Medical Letters of Manardi. 5. To Geoffroy d'Estissac. July I5, I532. Dedicatory Epistle for R's edition of the Aphorisms of Hippocrates and some writings by Galen. 6. To Amaury Bouchard. September 4, I532. Dedicatory Epistle for R's edition of the Latin 'Will of Cuspidius. 7. To Bernard Salignac. November 30, I532. Missiye letter to Erasmus. 8. Pantagrueline Prognostication. Late I532. 9. Almanac for I533· Late I532. 10. 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Transworld Publishers Ltd The Wall
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