François Rabelais 3 hr 39 min read

The mighty giants Grangousier, Gargantua, and Pantagruel stride through a boisterous world of feasts, wars, and outrageous adventures, in a rollicking retelling of Rabelais for young readers.

This 1887 adaptation of François Rabelais, illustrated by Gustave Doré, gathers the great giant-tales for children. Robust, comic, gloriously illustrated. Read it for a spirited, cleaned-up rendering of the immortal Gargantua and Pantagruel, larger-than-life giants and their hearty escapades, brought to vivid life by the incomparable engravings of Gustave Doré.

In its time

Published in 1887, during the 1880s, lost races and dying earths.

Reading it

3 hr 39 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Gustave Doré