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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)

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Chapters

Chapter 1
For the Reader and Author's Prologue
17:42
Chapter 2
Of the original and antiquity of the great Pantagruel
17:48
Chapter 3
Of the nativity of the most dread and redoubted Pantagruel
06:35
Chapter 4
Of the grief wherewith Gargantua was moved at the decease of his wife Badebec
05:00
Chapter 5
Of the infancy of Pantagruel
06:12
Chapter 6
Of the acts of the noble Pantagruel in his youthful age
12:21
Chapter 7
How Pantagruel met with a Limousin, who too affectedly did counterfeit the French language
10:25
Chapter 8
How Pantagruel came to Paris, and of the choice books of the Library of St. Victor
19:44
Chapter 9
How Pantagruel, being at Paris, received letters from his father Gargantua, and the copy of them
19:16
Chapter 10
How Pantagruel found Panurge, whom he loved all his lifetime
19:02
Chapter 11
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
Chapter 12
How the Lords of Kissbreech and Suckfist did plead before Pantagruel without an attorney
14:51
Chapter 13
How the Lord of Suckfist pleaded before Pantagruel
15:08
Chapter 14
How Pantagruel gave judgment upon the difference of the two lords
09:00
Chapter 15
How Panurge related the manner how he escaped out of the hands of the Turks
20:13
Chapter 16
How Panurge showed a very new way to build the walls of Paris
17:13
Chapter 17
Of the qualities and conditions of Panurge
13:07
Chapter 18
How Panurge gained the pardons, and married the old women, and of the suit in law which he had at Paris
12:00
Chapter 19
How a great scholar of England would have argued against Pantagruel, and was overcome by Panurge
13:35
Chapter 20
How Panurge put to a nonplus the Englishman that argued by signs
08:56
Chapter 21
How Thaumast relateth the virtues and knowledge of Panurge
03:27
Chapter 22
How Panurge was in love with a lady of Paris
08:32
Chapter 23
How Panurge served a Parisian lady a trick that pleased her not very well
05:36
Chapter 24
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
03:38
Chapter 25
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
07:35
Chapter 26
How Panurge, Carpalin, Eusthenes, and Epistemon, the gentlemen attendants of Pantagruel, vanquished and discomfited six hundred and threescore horsemen very cunningly
07:12
Chapter 27
How Pantagruel and his company were weary in eating still salt meats; and how Carpalin went a-hunting to have some venison
10:49
Chapter 28
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
Chapter 29
How Pantagruel got the victory very strangely over the Dipsodes and the Giants
15:00
Chapter 30
How Pantagruel discomfited the three hundred giants armed with free-stone, and Loupgarou their captain
16:52
Chapter 31
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
Chapter 32
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
06:41
Chapter 33
How Pantagruel with his tongue covered a whole army, and what the author saw in his mouth
12:49
Chapter 34
How Pantagruel became sick, and the manner how he was recovered
05:14
Chapter 35
The conclusion of this present book, and the excuse of the author
06:41

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book II

Chapters

For the Reader and Author's Prologue

Of the original and antiquity of the great Pantagruel

Of the nativity of the most dread and redoubted Pantagruel

Of the grief wherewith Gargantua was moved at the decease of his wife Badebec

Of the infancy of Pantagruel

Of the acts of the noble Pantagruel in his youthful age

How Pantagruel met with a Limousin, who too affectedly did counterfeit the French language

How Pantagruel came to Paris, and of the choice books of the Library of St. Victor

How Pantagruel, being at Paris, received letters from his father Gargantua, and the copy of them

How Pantagruel found Panurge, whom he loved all his lifetime

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

How the Lords of Kissbreech and Suckfist did plead before Pantagruel without an attorney

How the Lord of Suckfist pleaded before Pantagruel

How Pantagruel gave judgment upon the difference of the two lords

How Panurge related the manner how he escaped out of the hands of the Turks

How Panurge showed a very new way to build the walls of Paris

Of the qualities and conditions of Panurge

How Panurge gained the pardons, and married the old women, and of the suit in law which he had at Paris

How a great scholar of England would have argued against Pantagruel, and was overcome by Panurge

How Panurge put to a nonplus the Englishman that argued by signs

How Thaumast relateth the virtues and knowledge of Panurge

How Panurge was in love with a lady of Paris

How Panurge served a Parisian lady a trick that pleased her not very well

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

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

How Panurge, Carpalin, Eusthenes, and Epistemon, the gentlemen attendants of Pantagruel, vanquished and discomfited six hundred and threescore horsemen very cunningly

How Pantagruel and his company were weary in eating still salt meats; and how Carpalin went a-hunting to have some venison

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

How Pantagruel got the victory very strangely over the Dipsodes and the Giants

How Pantagruel discomfited the three hundred giants armed with free-stone, and Loupgarou their captain

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

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

How Pantagruel with his tongue covered a whole army, and what the author saw in his mouth

How Pantagruel became sick, and the manner how he was recovered

The conclusion of this present book, and the excuse of the author