Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book II

by François Rabelais

35 chapters6h 56mEnglish1894

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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)

Chapters (34)

1Of the original and antiquity of the great Pantagruel

1068

2Of the nativity of the most dread and redoubted Pantagruel

395

3Of the grief wherewith Gargantua was moved at the decease of his wife Badebec

300

4Of the infancy of Pantagruel

372

5Of the acts of the noble Pantagruel in his youthful age

741

6How Pantagruel met with a Limousin, who too affectedly did counterfeit the French language

625

7How Pantagruel came to Paris, and of the choice books of the Library of St. Victor

1184

8How Pantagruel, being at Paris, received letters from his father Gargantua, and the copy of them

1156

9How Pantagruel found Panurge, whom he loved all his lifetime

1142

10How 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

923

11How the Lords of Kissbreech and Suckfist did plead before Pantagruel without an attorney

891

12How the Lord of Suckfist pleaded before Pantagruel

908

13How Pantagruel gave judgment upon the difference of the two lords

540

14How Panurge related the manner how he escaped out of the hands of the Turks

1213

15How Panurge showed a very new way to build the walls of Paris

1033

16Of the qualities and conditions of Panurge

787

17How Panurge gained the pardons, and married the old women, and of the suit in law which he had at Paris

720

18How a great scholar of England would have argued against Pantagruel, and was overcome by Panurge

815

19How Panurge put to a nonplus the Englishman that argued by signs

536

20How Thaumast relateth the virtues and knowledge of Panurge

207

21How Panurge was in love with a lady of Paris

512

22How Panurge served a Parisian lady a trick that pleased her not very well

336

23How 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

218

24A letter which a messenger brought to Pantagruel from a lady of Paris, together with the exposition of a posy written in a gold ring

455

25How Panurge, Carpalin, Eusthenes, and Epistemon, the gentlemen attendants of Pantagruel, vanquished and discomfited six hundred and threescore horsemen very cunningly

432

26How Pantagruel and his company were weary in eating still salt meats; and how Carpalin went a-hunting to have some venison

649

27How 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

651

28How Pantagruel got the victory very strangely over the Dipsodes and the Giants

900

29How Pantagruel discomfited the three hundred giants armed with free-stone, and Loupgarou their captain

1012

30How 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

1308

31How 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

401

32How Pantagruel with his tongue covered a whole army, and what the author saw in his mouth

769

33How Pantagruel became sick, and the manner how he was recovered

314

34The conclusion of this present book, and the excuse of the author

401

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book II

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