Length33h 53m
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The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais, telling the adventures of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel. The work is written in an amusing, extravagant, and satirical vein; features much erudition, vulgarity, and wordplay; and is regularly compared with the works of William Shakespeare and James Joyce. Rabelais was a polyglot, and the work introduced "a great number of new and difficult words into the French language". The work was stigmatised as obscene by the censors of the Collège de la Sorbonne, and, within a social climate of increasing religious oppression in a lead up to the French Wars of Religion, it was treated with suspicion, and contemporaries avoided mentioning it.
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GenreLiterary Classics
Length33 hrs 53 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 13, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1BOOK I.
26Chapter 1.XXII.
2Introduction.
27Chapter 1.XXIII.
3FRANCIS RABELAIS.
28Chapter 1.XXIV.
4The Author’s Prologue to the First Book.
29Chapter 1.XXV.
5Chapter 1.I.
30Chapter 1.XXVI.
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6Chapter 1.II.
31Chapter 1.XXVII.
7Chapter 1.III.
32Chapter 1.XXVIII.
8Chapter 1.IV.
33Chapter 1.XXIX.
9Chapter 1.V.
34Chapter 1.XXX.
10Chapter 1.VI.
35Chapter 1.XXXI.
11Chapter 1.VII.
36Chapter 1.XXXII.
12Chapter 1.VIII.
37Chapter 1.XXXIII.
13Chapter 1.IX.
38Chapter 1.XXXIV.
14Chapter 1.X.
39Chapter 1.XXXV.
15Chapter 1.XI.
40Chapter 1.XXXVI.
16Chapter 1.XII.
41Chapter 1.XXXVII.
17Chapter 1.XIII.
42Chapter 1.XXXVIII.
18Chapter 1.XIV.
43Chapter 1.XXXIX.
19Chapter 1.XV.
44Chapter 1.XL.
20Chapter 1.XVI.
45Chapter 1.XLI.
21Chapter 1.XVII.
46Chapter 1.XLII.
22Chapter 1.XVIII.
47Chapter 1.XLIII.
23Chapter 1.XIX.
48Chapter 1.XLIV.
24Chapter 1.XX.
49Chapter 1.XLV.
25Chapter 1.XXI.
50Chapter 1.XLVI.
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