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Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book II

François Rabelais (1494 - 1553)
Translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart (1611 - 1660) and Peter Antony Motteux (1663 - 1718)

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)

Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction

Language: English

Keyword(s): fiction (1579), adventure (994), humor (638), satire (290), action (61), violence (6), giants (5), crude humor (1), vulgarity (1)

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	For the Reader and Author's Prologue	Martin Geeson	00:17:42
Play 01	Of the original and antiquity of the great Pantagruel	Martin Geeson	00:17:48
Play 02	Of the nativity of the most dread and redoubted Pantagruel	Kalynda	00:06:35
Play 03	Of the grief wherewith Gargantua was moved at the decease of his wife Badebec	Kalynda	00:05:00
Play 04	Of the infancy of Pantagruel	Kalynda	00:06:12
Play 05	Of the acts of the noble Pantagruel in his youthful age	Martin Geeson	00:12:21
Play 06	How Pantagruel met with a Limousin, who too affectedly did counterfeit the French language	Martin Geeson	00:10:25
Play 07	How Pantagruel came to Paris, and of the choice books of the Library of St. Victor	Martin Geeson	00:19:44
Play 08	How Pantagruel, being at Paris, received letters from his father Gargantua, and the copy of them	Martin Geeson	00:19:16
Play 09	How Pantagruel found Panurge, whom he loved all his lifetime	Martin Geeson	00:19:02
Play 10	How Pantagruel judged so equitably of a controversy, which was wonderfully obscure and difficult, that, by reason of his just decree therein, he was reputed to have a most admirable judgment	Martin Geeson	00:15:23
Play 11	How the Lords of Kissbreech and Suckfist did plead before Pantagruel without an attorney	Martin Geeson	00:14:51
Play 12	How the Lord of Suckfist pleaded before Pantagruel	Martin Geeson	00:15:08
Play 13	How Pantagruel gave judgment upon the difference of the two lords	Martin Geeson	00:09:00
Play 14	How Panurge related the manner how he escaped out of the hands of the Turks	Martin Geeson	00:20:13
Play 15	How Panurge showed a very new way to build the walls of Paris	Martin Geeson	00:17:13
Play 16	Of the qualities and conditions of Panurge	Keri Ford	00:13:07
Play 17	How Panurge gained the pardons, and married the old women, and of the suit in law which he had at Paris	Keri Ford	00:12:00
Play 18	How a great scholar of England would have argued against Pantagruel, and was overcome by Panurge	Bob Gonzalez	00:13:35
Play 19	How Panurge put to a nonplus the Englishman that argued by signs	Kalynda	00:08:56
Play 20	How Thaumast relateth the virtues and knowledge of Panurge	Kalynda	00:03:27
Play 21	How Panurge was in love with a lady of Paris	Kalynda	00:08:32
Play 22	How Panurge served a Parisian lady a trick that pleased her not very well	Kalynda	00:05:36
Play 23	How Pantagruel departed from Paris, hearing news that the Dipsodes had invaded the land of the Amaurots; and the cause wherefore the leagues are so short in France	Kalynda	00:03:38
Play 24	A letter which a messenger brought to Pantagruel from a lady of Paris, together with the exposition of a posy written in a gold ring	Kalynda	00:07:35
Play 25	How Panurge, Carpalin, Eusthenes, and Epistemon, the gentlemen attendants of Pantagruel, vanquished and discomfited six hundred and threescore horsemen very cunningly	Martin Geeson	00:07:12
Play 26	How Pantagruel and his company were weary in eating still salt meats; and how Carpalin went a-hunting to have some venison	Martin Geeson	00:10:49
Play 27	How Pantagruel set up one trophy in memorial of their valour, and Panurge another in remembrance of the hares. How Pantagruel likewise with his farts begat little men, and with his fisgs little women; and how Panurge broke a great staff over two glasses	Martin Geeson	00:10:51
Play 28	How Pantagruel got the victory very strangely over the Dipsodes and the Giants	Martin Geeson	00:15:00
Play 29	How Pantagruel discomfited the three hundred giants armed with free-stone, and Loupgarou their captain	Martin Geeson	00:16:52
Play 30	How Epistemon, who had his head cut off, was finely healed by Panurge, and of the news which he brought from the devils, and of the damned people in hell	Martin Geeson	00:21:48
Play 31	How Pantagruel entered into the city of the Amaurots, and how Panurge married King Anarchus to an old lantern-carrying hag, and made him a crier of green sauce	April Gonzales	00:06:41
Play 32	How Pantagruel with his tongue covered a whole army, and what the author saw in his mouth	Martin Geeson	00:12:49
Play 33	How Pantagruel became sick, and the manner how he was recovered	Richard Carpenter	00:05:14
Play 34	The conclusion of this present book, and the excuse of the author	Martin Geeson	00:06:41

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