The Honest Woodcutter
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The Honest Woodcutter, also known as Mercury and the Woodman and The Golden Axe, is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 173 in the Perry Index. It serves as a cautionary tale on the need for cultivating h
Grandville's illustration to La Fontaine's fable
A Victorian etching of Salvator Rosa's Mercury and the dishonest woodman
Gargantua and Pantagruel
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The Five Books of the Lives and Deeds of Gargantua and Pantagruel, often shortened to Gargantua and Pantagruel or the Cinq Livres, is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by François Rabe
The Honest Woodcutter
…obviously at a considerable remove from the story's application. A burlesque retelling of the fable occurs in François Rabelais's 16th-century novel Gargantua and Pantagruel. It takes up most of the author's prologue to the 4th Book and is considerably extended in his typically prolix and circuitous style. The woodcutter's…
Title-page of a c. 1532 edition of Pantagruel
Illustration of Gargantua by Gustave Doré, Chapter XXXVIII
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Illustration[of what?] by Gustave Doré, Chapter XXV
Illustration of the flying pig-monster by Gustave Doré, Chapter XLI