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

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book V, 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

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book V by François Rabelais. (Translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart; Peter Antony Motteux.) Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. 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 V
• Author credits: François Rabelais
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 48
• Listed recording duration: 6:30:38

Catalogue topics

• satire
• humor
• myths
• Legends
• burlesque
• humorous
• tall tales
• wordplay

Opening tracks: first 24 of 48

1. 00 - Prologue — 17:13
2. 01 - How Pantagruel arrived at the Ringing Island, and of the noise that we heard. — 6:47
3. 02 - How the Ringing Island had been inhabited by the Siticines, who were become birds. — 5:39
4. 03 - How there is but one pope-hawk in the Ringing Island. — 5:35
5. 04 - How the birds of the Ringing Island were all passengers. — 6:15
6. 05 - Of the dumb Knight-hawks of the Ringing Island. — 5:03
7. 06 - How the birds are crammed in the Ringing Island. — 5:50
8. 07 - How Panurge related to Master Aedituus the fable of the horse and the ass. — 12:59
9. 08 - How with much ado we got a sight of the pope-hawk. — 7:36
10. 09 - How we arrived at the island of Tools. — 6:40
11. 10 - How Pantagruel arrived at the island of Sharping. — 6:00
12. 11 - How we passed through the wicket inhabited by Gripe-men-all, Archduke of the Furred Law-cats. — 10:58
13. 12 - How Gripe-men-all propounded a riddle to us. — 6:44
14. 13 - How Panurge solved Gripe-men-all's riddle. — 6:50
15. 14 - How the Furred Law-cats live on corruption. — 6:03
16. 15 - How Friar John talks of rooting out the Furred Law-cats. — 13:41
17. 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. — 16:54
18. 17 - How we went forwards, and how Panurge had like to have been killed. — 5:34
19. 18 - How our ships were stranded, and we were relieved by some people that were subject to Queen Whims (qui tenoient de la Quinte). — 10:49
20. 19 - How we arrived at the queendom of Whims or Entelechy. — 6:36
21. 20 - How the Quintessence cured the sick with a song — 8:57
22. 21 - How the Queen passed her time after dinner. — 7:39
23. 22 - How Queen Whims' officers were employed; and how the said lady retained us among her abstractors. — 8:03
24. 23 - How the Queen was served at dinner, and of her way of eating. — 5:38

Listen to this recording

Open the complete recording and player on Internet Archive. The player includes the full track list and available download formats.

Source and rights

This is a record from LibriVox's official Internet Archive collection, with a public-domain licence recorded in its metadata. LibriVox's policy includes its catalogue summaries as well as its recordings. Its public-domain assessment follows United States law; copyright status can differ elsewhere. The summary and track facts are reproduced and reformatted from that record. Dates attached to the archive upload are not treated as original book publication dates.