# Three Good Giants Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623.md RSS feed: https://www.spreaker.com/show/5974333/episodes/feed Official site: https://www.spreaker.com/show/three-good-giants-by-francois-rabelais-1 Author: Audiobooks Episodes: 56 ## Resource http://www.adfreebooks.com - 500+ audiobooks, all ad free As I went on, it did not take me long to discover that it was quite possible for my purpose—following, indeed, the path unconsciously taken in my boyhood—to divide Rabelais sharply into incident and philosophy. That this had not been thought of before surprised, but did not daunt me. I said to myself: I shall limit the incident strictly to his three Giants; I shall hold these, from grandfather to grandson, well together; keep all that is sound in them; cut away the impurity which is not so much of as around them; chisel them out as a sculptor might, and leave his philosophy with face to the wall. This done, I turned the scouring hose, full and strong, upon the incidents themselves, clearing out both dialectics and profanity thoroughly. I did not stop until I had left the famous trio, Grandgousier, Gargantua, and Pantagruel where I had, from the first, hoped to place them,—high and dry above the scum which had so long clogged their rare good-fellowship, and which had made men of judgment blind to the genuine worth that was in them. In this way I believed that I saw the chance to free Rabelais' Giants, so long kept in bonds,… ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/three-good-giants-6721623 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623.md ## Episodes - [Think well on't or Reflections on the great truths of the Christian religion for every day of the month - Richard Challoner](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623/think-well-on-t-or-reflections-on-the-great-truths-of-the-christian-religion-for-every-day-of-the-month-richard-challoner) — 2026-07-31T11:19:40+00:00 - [Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 03 - Various](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623/myths-and-legends-around-the-world-collection-03-various) — 2026-07-30T11:54:22+00:00 - [Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 06 - Various](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623/myths-and-legends-around-the-world-collection-06-various) — 2026-07-29T12:18:17+00:00 - [From Life to Life or How Our Preachers Die - William Marion Weekley](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623/from-life-to-life-or-how-our-preachers-die-william-marion-weekley) — 2026-07-28T12:25:04+00:00 - [Autobiography of a Thief - Hutchins Hapgood](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623/autobiography-of-a-thief-hutchins-hapgood) — 2026-07-27T13:18:50+00:00 - [Getting of Wisdom - Henry Handel Richardson](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623/getting-of-wisdom-henry-handel-richardson) — 2026-07-26T14:00:17+00:00 - [Blackie A Lost Cat - Richard Barnum](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623/blackie-a-lost-cat-richard-barnum) — 2026-07-24T09:00:21+00:00 - [Abigail Adams and Her Times - Laura E Howe Richards](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623/abigail-adams-and-her-times-laura-e-howe-richards) — 2026-07-23T09:00:25+00:00 - [Answers to Prayer from George Muller's Narratives - A E C Brooks George Muller](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623/answers-to-prayer-from-george-muller-s-narratives-a-e-c-brooks-george-muller) — 2026-07-22T09:00:22+00:00 - [Australian Legendary Tales Folk-Lore of the Noongahburrahs As Told To The Piccaninnies - K Langloh Parker](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623/australian-legendary-tales-folk-lore-of-the-noongahburrahs-as-told-to-the-piccaninnies-k-langloh-parker) — 2026-07-21T09:00:36+00:00 - [Behind a Mask or a Woman's Power - Louisa May Alcott](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623/behind-a-mask-or-a-woman-s-power-louisa-may-alcott) — 2026-07-20T09:00:23+00:00 - [Three Good Giants - Francois Rabelais](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623/three-good-giants-francois-rabelais) — 2026-07-19T22:15:13+00:00 - [Chapter XLI (41) Pantagruel touches at the Wonderful Island of Ruach, where Giant Widenostrils had found the Cocks and Hens which killed him](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623/chapter-xli-41-pantagruel-touches-at-the-wonderful-island-of-ruach-where-giant-widenostrils-had-found-the-cocks-and-hens-which-killed-him) — 2023-10-10T00:31:39+00:00 - [Chapter XIX (19) How Friar John comes to the Feast, and how King Grandgousier had recruited his Army.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623/chapter-xix-19-how-friar-john-comes-to-the-feast-and-how-king-grandgousier-had-recruited-his-army) — 2023-10-10T00:31:39+00:00 - [Chapter XIII (13) How Gargantua was made not to lose one Hour of the Day.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623/chapter-xiii-13-how-gargantua-was-made-not-to-lose-one-hour-of-the-day) — 2023-10-10T00:31:39+00:00 - [Chapter XXXVIII (38) How Pantagruel came to the Islands of Tohu and Bohu. The Strange Death of Widenostrils, the Swallower of Windmills.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623/chapter-xxxviii-38-how-pantagruel-came-to-the-islands-of-tohu-and-bohu-the-strange-death-of-widenostrils-the-swallower-of-windmills) — 2023-10-10T00:31:39+00:00 - [Chapter XXIII (23) The Strange Things Pantagruel did as a Baby.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623/chapter-xxiii-23-the-strange-things-pantagruel-did-as-a-baby) — 2023-10-10T00:31:39+00:00 - [Chapter XXIV (24) After studying at several Universities, Pantagruel goes to Paris.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623/chapter-xxiv-24-after-studying-at-several-universities-pantagruel-goes-to-paris) — 2023-10-10T00:31:39+00:00 - [Chapter XXII (22) Grandgousier's Death. Gargantua's Marriage. Pantagruel is Born.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623/chapter-xxii-22-grandgousier-s-death-gargantua-s-marriage-pantagruel-is-born) — 2023-10-10T00:31:39+00:00 - [Chapter XXX (30) How Carpalim went hunting for Fresh Meat, and how a Trophy was set up.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623/chapter-xxx-30-how-carpalim-went-hunting-for-fresh-meat-and-how-a-trophy-was-set-up) — 2023-10-10T00:31:39+00:00 - [Chapter XXVII (27) What sort of Man Panurge was, and the many Tricks he knew.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623/chapter-xxvii-27-what-sort-of-man-panurge-was-and-the-many-tricks-he-knew) — 2023-10-10T00:31:39+00:00 - [Chapter XXXII (32) The Wonderful Way in which Pantagruel disposed of the Giant Loupgarou and his Two Hundred and Ninety-Nine Giants.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623/chapter-xxxii-32-the-wonderful-way-in-which-pantagruel-disposed-of-the-giant-loupgarou-and-his-two-hundred-and-ninety-nine-giants) — 2023-10-10T00:31:39+00:00 - [Chapter XXXV (35) Pantagruel starts on his Travels, and lands at the Island of Pictures.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623/chapter-xxxv-35-pantagruel-starts-on-his-travels-and-lands-at-the-island-of-pictures) — 2023-10-10T00:31:39+00:00 - [Chapter XXXI (31) The Strange Way in which Pantagruel obtained a Victory over the Thirsty People.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623/chapter-xxxi-31-the-strange-way-in-which-pantagruel-obtained-a-victory-over-the-thirsty-people) — 2023-10-10T00:31:39+00:00 - [Chapter XXXVII (37) The Island of Alliances.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623/chapter-xxxvii-37-the-island-of-alliances) — 2023-10-10T00:31:39+00:00 - [Chapter XXXIX (39) A Great Storm, in which Panurge plays the Coward.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623/chapter-xxxix-39-a-great-storm-in-which-panurge-plays-the-coward) — 2023-10-10T00:31:39+00:00 - [Chapter XXXIII (33) How Pantagruel finally conquers the Thirsty People, and the strange business Panurge finds for King Anarchus.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623/chapter-xxxiii-33-how-pantagruel-finally-conquers-the-thirsty-people-and-the-strange-business-panurge-finds-for-king-anarchus) — 2023-10-10T00:31:39+00:00 - [Chapter XL (40) The Island of the Macreons and its Forest, in which the Heroes who are tempted by Demons die.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623/chapter-xl-40-the-island-of-the-macreons-and-its-forest-in-which-the-heroes-who-are-tempted-by-demons-die) — 2023-10-10T00:31:39+00:00 - [Chapter XLIII (43) Which tells of several Islands, and the Wonderful People who dwell in them.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623/chapter-xliii-43-which-tells-of-several-islands-and-the-wonderful-people-who-dwell-in-them) — 2023-10-10T00:31:39+00:00 - [Chapter XXXIV (34) Gargantua comes back from Fairy-land, after which Pantagruel prepares for another Trip.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623/chapter-xxxiv-34-gargantua-comes-back-from-fairy-land-after-which-pantagruel-prepares-for-another-trip) — 2023-10-10T00:31:39+00:00 - [Chapter XIV (14) How the Awful War between the Bunmakers of Lerne and Gargantua's Country was begun.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623/chapter-xiv-14-how-the-awful-war-between-the-bunmakers-of-lerne-and-gargantua-s-country-was-begun) — 2023-10-10T00:31:39+00:00 - [Chapter XLII (42) Pantagruel, with his Darts, kills a Monster which Cannon-Balls could not hurt. The Power of the Sign of the Cross.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623/chapter-xlii-42-pantagruel-with-his-darts-kills-a-monster-which-cannon-balls-could-not-hurt-the-power-of-the-sign-of-the-cross) — 2023-10-10T00:31:39+00:00 - [Chapter XXIX (29) How the Cunning of Panurge, with the Aid of Eusthenes and Carpalim, discomfited Six Hundred and Sixty Horsemen.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623/chapter-xxix-29-how-the-cunning-of-panurge-with-the-aid-of-eusthenes-and-carpalim-discomfited-six-hundred-and-sixty-horsemen) — 2023-10-10T00:31:39+00:00 - [Chapter XXXVI (36) Panurge bargains with Dindeno for a Ram, and throws his Ram overboard.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/three-good-giants-6721623/chapter-xxxvi-36-panurge-bargains-with-dindeno-for-a-ram-and-throws-his-ram-overboard) — 2023-10-10T00:31:39+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. A page view does not automatically enqueue transcription.