Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book II: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book II, credited to François Rabelais, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book II by François Rabelais. (Translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty; Peter Antony Motteux.) 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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book II
• Author credits: François Rabelais
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 35
• Listed recording duration: 6:56:16

Catalogue topics

• satire
• humor
• fiction
• adventure
• action
• giants
• crude humor
• violence

Opening tracks: first 24 of 35

1. 00 - For the Reader and Author's Prologue — 17:42
2. 01 - Of the original and antiquity of the great Pantagruel — 17:48
3. 02 - Of the nativity of the most dread and redoubted Pantagruel — 6:35
4. 03 - Of the grief wherewith Gargantua was moved at the decease of his wife Badebec — 5:00
5. 04 - Of the infancy of Pantagruel — 6:12
6. 05 - Of the acts of the noble Pantagruel in his youthful age — 12:21
7. 06 - How Pantagruel met with a Limousin, who too affectedly did counterfeit the French language — 10:25
8. 07 - How Pantagruel came to Paris, and of the choice books of the Library of St. Victor — 19:44
9. 08 - How Pantagruel, being at Paris, received letters from his father Gargantua, and the copy of them — 19:16
10. 09 - How Pantagruel found Panurge, whom he loved all his lifetime — 19:02
11. 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 — 15:23
12. 11 - How the Lords of Kissbreech and Suckfist did plead before Pantagruel without an attorney — 14:51
13. 12 - How the Lord of Suckfist pleaded before Pantagruel — 15:08
14. 13 - How Pantagruel gave judgment upon the difference of the two lords — 9:00
15. 14 - How Panurge related the manner how he escaped out of the hands of the Turks — 20:13
16. 15 - How Panurge showed a very new way to build the walls of Paris — 17:13
17. 16 - Of the qualities and conditions of Panurge — 13:07
18. 17 - How Panurge gained the pardons, and married the old women, and of the suit in law which he had at Paris — 12:01
19. 18 - How a great scholar of England would have argued against Pantagruel, and was overcome by Panurge — 13:35
20. 19 - How Panurge put to a nonplus the Englishman that argued by signs — 8:56
21. 20 - How Thaumast relateth the virtues and knowledge of Panurge — 3:27
22. 21 - How Panurge was in love with a lady of Paris — 8:32
23. 22 - How Panurge served a Parisian lady a trick that pleased her not very well — 5:35
24. 23 - How Pantagruel departed from Paris, hearing news that the Dipsodes had invaded the land of the Amaurots\ — 3:38

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