Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book II


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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) (6 hr 56 min)

Chapitres

For the Reader and Author's Prologue 17:42 Lu par Martin Geeson
Of the original and antiquity of the great Pantagruel 17:48 Lu par Martin Geeson
Of the nativity of the most dread and redoubted Pantagruel 6:35 Lu par Kalynda
Of the grief wherewith Gargantua was moved at the decease of his wife Badebec 5:00 Lu par Kalynda
Of the infancy of Pantagruel 6:12 Lu par Kalynda
Of the acts of the noble Pantagruel in his youthful age 12:21 Lu par Martin Geeson
How Pantagruel met with a Limousin, who too affectedly did counterfeit the French language 10:25 Lu par Martin Geeson
How Pantagruel came to Paris, and of the choice books of the Library of St. Victor 19:44 Lu par Martin Geeson
How Pantagruel, being at Paris, received letters from his father Gargantua, and the copy of them 19:16 Lu par Martin Geeson
How Pantagruel found Panurge, whom he loved all his lifetime 19:02 Lu par Martin Geeson
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 Lu par Martin Geeson
How the Lords of Kissbreech and Suckfist did plead before Pantagruel without an attorney 14:51 Lu par Martin Geeson
How the Lord of Suckfist pleaded before Pantagruel 15:08 Lu par Martin Geeson
How Pantagruel gave judgment upon the difference of the two lords 9:00 Lu par Martin Geeson
How Panurge related the manner how he escaped out of the hands of the Turks 20:13 Lu par Martin Geeson
How Panurge showed a very new way to build the walls of Paris 17:13 Lu par Martin Geeson
Of the qualities and conditions of Panurge 13:07 Lu par Keri Ford
How Panurge gained the pardons, and married the old women, and of the suit in law which he had at Paris 12:00 Lu par Keri Ford
How a great scholar of England would have argued against Pantagruel, and was overcome by Panurge 13:35 Lu par Bob Gonzalez
How Panurge put to a nonplus the Englishman that argued by signs 8:56 Lu par Kalynda
How Thaumast relateth the virtues and knowledge of Panurge 3:27 Lu par Kalynda
How Panurge was in love with a lady of Paris 8:32 Lu par Kalynda
How Panurge served a Parisian lady a trick that pleased her not very well 5:36 Lu par Kalynda
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 3:38 Lu par Kalynda
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 7:35 Lu par Kalynda
How Panurge, Carpalin, Eusthenes, and Epistemon, the gentlemen attendants of Pantagruel, vanquished and discomfited six hundred and threescore horsemen very cunningly 7:12 Lu par Martin Geeson
How Pantagruel and his company were weary in eating still salt meats; and how Carpalin went a-hunting to have some venison 10:49 Lu par Martin Geeson
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 10:51 Lu par Martin Geeson
How Pantagruel got the victory very strangely over the Dipsodes and the Giants 15:00 Lu par Martin Geeson
How Pantagruel discomfited the three hundred giants armed with free-stone, and Loupgarou their captain 16:52 Lu par Martin Geeson
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 21:48 Lu par Martin Geeson
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 6:41 Lu par April Gonzales
How Pantagruel with his tongue covered a whole army, and what the author saw in his mouth 12:49 Lu par Martin Geeson
How Pantagruel became sick, and the manner how he was recovered 5:14 Lu par Richard Carpenter
The conclusion of this present book, and the excuse of the author 6:41 Lu par Martin Geeson

Critiques


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specular narration. however, the whole book is not yet complete.