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 (638), satire (290), Legends (155), 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