# Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book V

An audiobook by François Rabelais, read by LibriVox volunteers (6 h 31 min, 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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## Chapters

0. Prologue (17:13): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_00_rabelais_64kb.mp3
1. How Pantagruel arrived at the Ringing Island, and of the noise that we heard. (6:47): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_01_rabelais_64kb.mp3
2. How the Ringing Island had been inhabited by the Siticines, who were become birds. (5:39): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_02_rabelais_64kb.mp3
3. How there is but one pope-hawk in the Ringing Island. (5:35): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_03_rabelais_64kb.mp3
4. How the birds of the Ringing Island were all passengers. (6:15): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_04_rabelais_64kb.mp3
5. Of the dumb Knight-hawks of the Ringing Island. (5:03): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_05_rabelais_64kb.mp3
6. How the birds are crammed in the Ringing Island. (5:50): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_06_rabelais_64kb.mp3
7. How Panurge related to Master Aedituus the fable of the horse and the ass. (12:59): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_07_rabelais_64kb.mp3
8. How with much ado we got a sight of the pope-hawk. (7:36): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_08_rabelais_64kb.mp3
9. How we arrived at the island of Tools. (6:40): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_09_rabelais_64kb.mp3
10. How Pantagruel arrived at the island of Sharping. (6:00): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_10_rabelais_64kb.mp3
11. How we passed through the wicket inhabited by Gripe-men-all, Archduke of the Furred Law-cats. (10:58): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_11_rabelais_64kb.mp3
12. How Gripe-men-all propounded a riddle to us. (6:44): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_12_rabelais_64kb.mp3
13. How Panurge solved Gripe-men-all's riddle. (6:50): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_13_rabelais_64kb.mp3
14. How the Furred Law-cats live on corruption. (6:03): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_14_rabelais_64kb.mp3
15. How Friar John talks of rooting out the Furred Law-cats. (13:41): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_15_rabelais_64kb.mp3
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): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_16_rabelais_64kb.mp3
17. How we went forwards, and how Panurge had like to have been killed. (5:34): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_17_rabelais_64kb.mp3
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): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_18_rabelais_64kb.mp3
19. How we arrived at the queendom of Whims or Entelechy. (6:36): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_19_rabelais_64kb.mp3
20. How the Quintessence cured the sick with a song (8:57): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_20_rabelais_64kb.mp3
21. How the Queen passed her time after dinner. (7:39): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_21_rabelais_64kb.mp3
22. How Queen Whims' officers were employed; and how the said lady retained us among her abstractors. (8:03): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_22_rabelais_64kb.mp3
23. How the Queen was served at dinner, and of her way of eating. (5:38): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_23_rabelais_64kb.mp3
24. How there was a ball in the manner of a tournament, at which Queen Whims was present. (6:35): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_24_rabelais_64kb.mp3
25. How the thirty-two persons at the ball fought. (14:50): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_25_rabelais_64kb.mp3
26. How we came to the island of Odes, where the ways go up and down. (6:28): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_26_rabelais_64kb.mp3
27. How we came to the island of Sandals; and of the order of Semiquaver Friars. (15:53): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_27_rabelais_64kb.mp3
28. How Panurge asked a Semiquaver Friar many questions, and was only answered in monosyllables. (13:50): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_28_rabelais_64kb.mp3
29. How Epistemon disliked the institution of Lent. (8:02): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_29_rabelais_64kb.mp3
30. How we came to the land of Satin. (12:54): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_30_rabelais_64kb.mp3
31. How in the land of Satin we saw Hearsay, who kept a school of vouching. (8:10): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_31_rabelais_64kb.mp3
32. How we came in sight of Lantern-land. (1:54): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_32_rabelais_64kb.mp3
33. How we landed at the port of the Lychnobii, and came to Lantern-land. (6:11): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_33_rabelais_64kb.mp3
34. How we arrived at the Oracle of the Bottle. (6:54): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_34_rabelais_64kb.mp3
35. How we went underground to come to the Temple of the Holy Bottle, and how Chinon is the oldest city in the world. (3:50): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_35_rabelais_64kb.mp3
36. How we went down the tetradic steps, and of Panurge's fear (7:44): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_36_rabelais_64kb.mp3
37. How the temple gates in a wonderful manner opened of themselves. (4:59): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_37_rabelais_64kb.mp3
38. Of the Temple's admirable pavement. (3:33): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_38_rabelais_64kb.mp3
39. How we saw Bacchus's army drawn up in battalia in mosaic work. (7:00): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_39_rabelais_64kb.mp3
40. How the battle in which the good Bacchus overthrew the Indians was represented in mosaic work. (6:05): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_40_rabelais_64kb.mp3
41. How the temple was illuminated with a wonderful lamp. (5:14): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_41_rabelais_64kb.mp3
42. How the Priestess Bacbuc showed us a fantastic fountain in the temple, and how the fountain-water had the taste of wine, according to the imagination of those who drank of it. (24:24): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_42_rabelais_64kb.mp3
43. How the Priestess Bacbuc equipped Panurge in order to have the word of the Bottle. (6:34): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_43_rabelais_64kb.mp3
44. How Bacbuc, the high-priestess, brought Panurge before the Holy Bottle. (3:45): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_44_rabelais_64kb.mp3
45. How Bacbuc explained the word of the Goddess-Bottle. (5:11): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_45_rabelais_64kb.mp3
46. How Panurge and the rest rhymed with poetic fury. (5:24): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_46_rabelais_64kb.mp3
47. How we took our leave of Bacbuc, and left the Oracle of the Holy Bottle. (5:11): https://archive.org/download/gargantuaandpantagruelbookv_2508_librivox/gargantuabookv_47_rabelais_64kb.mp3