Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book II
Author(s): François Rabelais, John Ozell, Peter Antony Motteux
Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction
Narrators: Martin Geeson, Kalynda, Keri Ford, Bob Gonzalez, April Gonzales, Richard Carpenter
Number of Chapters: 35
Length: 06 hours and 56 minutes
Language: English
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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How Pantagruel met with a Limousin, who too affectedly did counterfeit the French language (Martin Geeson)
How Pantagruel, being at Paris, received letters from his father Gargantua, and the copy of them (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 (Martin Geeson)
How the Lords of Kissbreech and Suckfist did plead before Pantagruel without an attorney (Martin Geeson)
How Panurge gained the pardons, and married the old women, and of the suit in law which he had at Paris (Keri Ford)
How a great scholar of England would have argued against Pantagruel, and was overcome by Panurge (Bob Gonzalez)
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 (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 (Kalynda)
How Panurge, Carpalin, Eusthenes, and Epistemon, the gentlemen attendants of Pantagruel, vanquished and discomfited six hundred and threescore horsemen very cunningly (Martin Geeson)
How Pantagruel and his company were weary in eating still salt meats; and how Carpalin went a-hunting to have some venison (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 (Martin Geeson)
How Pantagruel discomfited the three hundred giants armed with free-stone, and Loupgarou their captain (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 (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 (April Gonzales)
The audiobook Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book II falls under the genres of Action & Adventure Fiction. It is written by François Rabelais, John Ozell, Peter Antony Motteux.