Francois Rabelais 
Gargantua and Pantagruel – The Squashed Edition [EPUB ebook] 

The Squashed edition of Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais. Abridged from the original text to read in an hour or so. Squashed editions are precise abridgements – the original ideas, in their own words, the full beam of the book, the quotable quotes and all the famous lines, but neatly honed down to the length of a readable short story. ‘Like reading the bible without all the begats’ – Prof. Jim Curtis