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Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book II

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The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (in French, La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a connected series of five novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais. It is the story of two giants, a father (Gargantua) and his son (Pantagruel) and their adventures, written in an amusing, extravagant, satirical vein. There is much crudity and scatological humor as well as a large amount of violence. Long lists of vulgar insults fill several chapters. (Summary by Wikipedia) (6 hr 56 min)

Chapters

For the Reader and Author's Prologue

17:42

Read by Martin Geeson

Of the original and antiquity of the great Pantagruel

17:48

Read by Martin Geeson

Of the nativity of the most dread and redoubted Pantagruel

6:35

Read by Kalynda

Of the grief wherewith Gargantua was moved at the decease of his wife Badebec

5:00

Read by Kalynda

Of the infancy of Pantagruel

6:12

Read by Kalynda

Of the acts of the noble Pantagruel in his youthful age

12:21

Read by Martin Geeson

How Pantagruel met with a Limousin, who too affectedly did counterfeit the Fren…

10:25

Read by Martin Geeson

How Pantagruel came to Paris, and of the choice books of the Library of St. Vic…

19:44

Read by Martin Geeson

How Pantagruel, being at Paris, received letters from his father Gargantua, and…

19:16

Read by Martin Geeson

How Pantagruel found Panurge, whom he loved all his lifetime

19:02

Read by Martin Geeson

How Pantagruel judged so equitably of a controversy, which was wonderfully obsc…

15:23

Read by Martin Geeson

How the Lords of Kissbreech and Suckfist did plead before Pantagruel without an…

14:51

Read by Martin Geeson

How the Lord of Suckfist pleaded before Pantagruel

15:08

Read by Martin Geeson

How Pantagruel gave judgment upon the difference of the two lords

9:00

Read by Martin Geeson

How Panurge related the manner how he escaped out of the hands of the Turks

20:13

Read by Martin Geeson

How Panurge showed a very new way to build the walls of Paris

17:13

Read by Martin Geeson

Of the qualities and conditions of Panurge

13:07

Read by Keri Ford

How Panurge gained the pardons, and married the old women, and of the suit in l…

12:00

Read by Keri Ford

How a great scholar of England would have argued against Pantagruel, and was ov…

13:35

Read by Bob Gonzalez

How Panurge put to a nonplus the Englishman that argued by signs

8:56

Read by Kalynda

How Thaumast relateth the virtues and knowledge of Panurge

3:27

Read by Kalynda

How Panurge was in love with a lady of Paris

8:32

Read by Kalynda

How Panurge served a Parisian lady a trick that pleased her not very well

5:36

Read by Kalynda

How Pantagruel departed from Paris, hearing news that the Dipsodes had invaded …

3:38

Read by Kalynda

A letter which a messenger brought to Pantagruel from a lady of Paris, together…

7:35

Read by Kalynda

How Panurge, Carpalin, Eusthenes, and Epistemon, the gentlemen attendants of Pa…

7:12

Read by Martin Geeson

How Pantagruel and his company were weary in eating still salt meats; and how C…

10:49

Read by Martin Geeson

How Pantagruel set up one trophy in memorial of their valour, and Panurge anoth…

10:51

Read by Martin Geeson

How Pantagruel got the victory very strangely over the Dipsodes and the Giants

15:00

Read by Martin Geeson

How Pantagruel discomfited the three hundred giants armed with free-stone, and …

16:52

Read by Martin Geeson

How Epistemon, who had his head cut off, was finely healed by Panurge, and of t…

21:48

Read by Martin Geeson

How Pantagruel entered into the city of the Amaurots, and how Panurge married K…

6:41

Read by April Gonzales

How Pantagruel with his tongue covered a whole army, and what the author saw in…

12:49

Read by Martin Geeson

How Pantagruel became sick, and the manner how he was recovered

5:14

Read by Richard Carpenter

The conclusion of this present book, and the excuse of the author

6:41

Read by Martin Geeson

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specular narration. however, the whole book is not yet complete.