Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book II

LibriVox recording of Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book II by François Rabelais. (Translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty; Peter Antony Motteux.) 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 sever