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Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book V

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): Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, Published before 1800

Language: English

Keyword(s): literature (1956), humor (641), satire (292), Legends (156), myths (129), humorous (12), tall tales (12), burlesque (4), wordplay (4), adventurous (2) ... [Show full list]

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	Prologue	Christine Rottger	00:17:13
Play 01	How Pantagruel arrived at the Ringing Island, and of the noise that we heard.	phineas2000	00:06:47
Play 02	How the Ringing Island had been inhabited by the Siticines, who were become birds.	phineas2000	00:05:39
Play 03	How there is but one pope-hawk in the Ringing Island.	phineas2000	00:05:35
Play 04	How the birds of the Ringing Island were all passengers.	Rosana Plaza	00:06:15
Play 05	Of the dumb Knight-hawks of the Ringing Island.	Rosana Plaza	00:05:03
Play 06	How the birds are crammed in the Ringing Island.	Rosana Plaza	00:05:50
Play 07	How Panurge related to Master Aedituus the fable of the horse and the ass.	Rosana Plaza	00:12:59
Play 08	How with much ado we got a sight of the pope-hawk.	Rosana Plaza	00:07:36
Play 09	How we arrived at the island of Tools.	phineas2000	00:06:40
Play 10	How Pantagruel arrived at the island of Sharping.	phineas2000	00:06:00
Play 11	How we passed through the wicket inhabited by Gripe-men-all, Archduke of the Furred Law-cats.	phineas2000	00:10:58
Play 12	How Gripe-men-all propounded a riddle to us.	phineas2000	00:06:44
Play 13	How Panurge solved Gripe-men-all's riddle.	phineas2000	00:06:50
Play 14	How the Furred Law-cats live on corruption.	phineas2000	00:06:03
Play 15	How Friar John talks of rooting out the Furred Law-cats.	phineas2000	00:13:41
Play 16	How Pantagruel came to the island of the Apedefers, or Ignoramuses, with long claws and crooked paws, and of terrible adventures and monsters there.	Ariphron	00:16:54
Play 17	How we went forwards, and how Panurge had like to have been killed.	phineas2000	00:05:34
Play 18	How our ships were stranded, and we were relieved by some people that were subject to Queen Whims (qui tenoient de la Quinte).	phineas2000	00:10:49
Play 19	How we arrived at the queendom of Whims or Entelechy.	phineas2000	00:06:36
Play 20	How the Quintessence cured the sick with a song	phineas2000	00:08:57
Play 21	How the Queen passed her time after dinner.	phineas2000	00:07:39
Play 22	How Queen Whims' officers were employed; and how the said lady retained us among her abstractors.	phineas2000	00:08:03
Play 23	How the Queen was served at dinner, and of her way of eating.	phineas2000	00:05:38
Play 24	How there was a ball in the manner of a tournament, at which Queen Whims was present.	phineas2000	00:06:35
Play 25	How the thirty-two persons at the ball fought.	phineas2000	00:14:50
Play 26	How we came to the island of Odes, where the ways go up and down.	phineas2000	00:06:28
Play 27	How we came to the island of Sandals; and of the order of Semiquaver Friars.	phineas2000	00:15:53
Play 28	How Panurge asked a Semiquaver Friar many questions, and was only answered in monosyllables.	phineas2000	00:13:50
Play 29	How Epistemon disliked the institution of Lent.	phineas2000	00:08:02
Play 30	How we came to the land of Satin.	phineas2000	00:12:54
Play 31	How in the land of Satin we saw Hearsay, who kept a school of vouching.	phineas2000	00:08:10
Play 32	How we came in sight of Lantern-land.	phineas2000	00:01:54
Play 33	How we landed at the port of the Lychnobii, and came to Lantern-land.	phineas2000	00:06:11
Play 34	How we arrived at the Oracle of the Bottle.	phineas2000	00:06:54
Play 35	How we went underground to come to the Temple of the Holy Bottle, and how Chinon is the oldest city in the world.	phineas2000	00:03:50
Play 36	How we went down the tetradic steps, and of Panurge's fear	phineas2000	00:07:44
Play 37	How the temple gates in a wonderful manner opened of themselves.	phineas2000	00:04:59
Play 38	Of the Temple's admirable pavement.	phineas2000	00:03:33
Play 39	How we saw Bacchus's army drawn up in battalia in mosaic work.	phineas2000	00:07:00
Play 40	How the battle in which the good Bacchus overthrew the Indians was represented in mosaic work.	phineas2000	00:06:05
Play 41	How the temple was illuminated with a wonderful lamp.	phineas2000	00:05:14
Play 42	How the Priestess Bacbuc showed us a fantastic fountain in the temple, and how the fountain-water had the taste of wine, according to the imagination of those who drank of it.	DJRickyV	00:24:24
Play 43	How the Priestess Bacbuc equipped Panurge in order to have the word of the Bottle.	DJRickyV	00:06:34
Play 44	How Bacbuc, the high-priestess, brought Panurge before the Holy Bottle.	Stacey Malcolm	00:03:45
Play 45	How Bacbuc explained the word of the Goddess-Bottle.	Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi	00:05:11
Play 46	How Panurge and the rest rhymed with poetic fury.	Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi	00:05:24
Play 47	How we took our leave of Bacbuc, and left the Oracle of the Holy Bottle.	Ehsan Ahmed Mehedi	00:05:11

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