How long does it take to read Gargantua et Pantagruel?
Gargantua et Pantagruel by François Rabelais takes about 6 hours 59 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 59 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1929. 381 pages, about 104,775 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 39 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 59 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 28 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c. 1471-1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy to make us look afresh at the world. Gargantua depicts a young giant, reduced to laughable insanity by an education at the hands of paternal ignorance, old crones and syphilitic professors, who is rescued and turned into a cultured Christian knight.
Subjects: Giants, French Fantastic fiction, Gargantua (Legendary character), Fiction, French Fantasy fiction, Fiction, historical, general
