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"Most noble and illustrious drinkers..." Thus begins Gargantua and Pantagruel, a grotesque and carnivalesque collection of exuberant, fantastical stories that takes us from the ancient world through to the European Renaissance. At the heart of these tall tales are the giant Gargantua and his equally seismic son, Pantagruel. Containing magical adventures, maniacal punning, slapstick humor, erudite allusions, and just about any bodily function one can think of, here is quite possibly the zaniest, most risqué book ever written.
Featuring the original translation by Urquhart and Motteaux - celebrated for its fluidity and playfulness.
Bill Homewood gives a virtuosic and delightfully exuberant reading of this extraordinary text - "a narrator so perfectly matched to his material that you can't help but smile." [The Times (London)]
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Laurence Sterne’s most famous novel is a biting satire of literary conventions and contemporary 18th-century values. Renowned for its parody of established narrative techniques, Tristram Shandyis commonly regarded as the forerunner of avant-garde fiction. Tristram’s characteristic digressions on a whole range of unlikely subjects (including battle strategy and noses!) are endlessly surprising and make this one of Britain’s greatest comic achievements.
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Like discovering Frank Zappa in 250 years
- De Darwin8u en 01-02-14
De: Laurence Sterne
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The Anatomy of Melancholy
- De: Robert Burton
- Narrado por: Peter Wickham
- Duración: 56 h y 49 m
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First published in 1621, and hardly ever out of print since, it is a huge, varied, idiosyncratic, entertaining and learned survey of the experience of melancholy, seen from just about every possible angle that could be imagined. The Anatomy of Melancholy, presented here with all the original quotations in English, is, at last, available on audiobook in its entirety.
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Nam Et Doctis Hisce Erroribus Versatus Sum
- De Darwin8u en 05-26-20
De: Robert Burton
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The Decameron
- De: Giovanni Boccaccio
- Narrado por: Simon Russell Beale, Gunnar Cauthery, Alison Pettitt, y otros
- Duración: 28 h y 5 m
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The Decameron is one of the greatest literary works of the Middle Ages. Ten young people have fled the terrible effects of the Black Death in Florence and, in an idyllic setting, tell a series of brilliant stories, by turns humorous, bawdy, tragic and provocative. This celebration of physical and sexual vitality is Boccaccio's answer to the sublime other-worldliness of Dante's Divine Comedy.
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Not Up to the Usual Naxos Standard
- De John en 11-15-17
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Tom Jones
- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- De: Henry Fielding
- Narrado por: Bill Homewood
- Duración: 37 h y 52 m
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Tom Jones, a foundling, is brought up by the kindly Mr. Allworthy as if he were his own son. Forced to leave the house as a young man after tales of his disgraceful behavior reach his benefactor's ears, he sets out in utter despair, not only because of his banishment but because he has now lost all hope of gaining the hand of the beautiful Sophia. But she too is forced to flee her parental home to escape an undesirable marriage and their stories and adventures intertwine.
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terrific story BUT
- De tom en 01-28-14
De: Henry Fielding
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Le Morte d'Arthur
- The Death of Arthur
- De: Sir Thomas Malory
- Narrado por: Bill Homewood
- Duración: 38 h y 4 m
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Of all the legends of Western civilization, perhaps the glorious adventures of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table are the best known. The Quest for the Holy Grail, and the undying illicit love between Sir Launcelot and Queen Guenevere, have provided inspiration for storytellers and poets down the ages, and sparked so many films and books of our own time.
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Brilliant and powerful
- De Tad Davis en 05-19-21
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The History of England Volume 2
- King Henry III to King Richard III
- De: David Hume
- Narrado por: Mark Elstob
- Duración: 22 h y 26 m
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The second volume of David Hume's classic survey of English history covers nearly 300 years (1200-1485) from the long reign of Henry III to the dramatic end of Richard III on Bosworth Field—he was the last Plantagenet, and the last king of England to die in battle. In telling this all-action tale, Hume delves deeply into contemporary records and presents a considered, even sympathetic view, showing that many factors, not just personalities, resulted in dramatic consequences for the nation.
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Perceval
- The Story of the Grail
- De: Chrétien de Troyes
- Narrado por: Mike Rogers
- Duración: 16 h y 40 m
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Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval is the single most important Arthurian romance. It contains the very first mention of the mysterious grail, later to become the Holy Grail and the focal point of the spiritual quest of the knights of Arthur's court. Chrétien left the poem unfinished, but the extraordinary and intriguing theme of the Grail was too good to leave, and other poets continued and eventually completed it.
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Interesting story
- De Chris M. en 06-10-22
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Father Goriot
- De: Honoré de Balzac
- Narrado por: Bill Homewood
- Duración: 12 h
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Impoverished young aristocrat Eugene de Rastignac is determined to climb the social ladder and impress himself on Parisian high society. While staying at the Maison Vauquer, a boarding house in Paris's rue Neuve-Sainte-Genevieve, he encounters Jean-Joachim Goriot, a retired vermicelli maker who has spent his entire fortune supporting his two daughters. The boarders strike up a friendship and Goriot learns of Rastignac's feelings for his daughter Delphine. He begins to see Rastignac as the ideal son-in-law, and the perfect substitute for Delphine's domineering husband. But Rastignac has other opportunities too....
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Astounding performance
- De Laurence Grey en 04-05-21
De: Honoré de Balzac
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The Life of Samuel Johnson
- De: James Boswell
- Narrado por: David Timson
- Duración: 51 h y 2 m
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Charming, vibrant, witty and edifying, The Life of Samuel Johnson is a work of great obsession and boundless reverence. The literary critic Samuel Johnson was 54 when he first encountered Boswell; the friendship that developed spawned one of the greatest biographies in the history of world literature. The book is full of humorous anecdote and rich characterization, and paints a vivid picture of 18th-century London, peopled by prominent personalities of the time.
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Wonderful!
- De Tad Davis en 02-02-18
De: James Boswell
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Gargantua & Pantagruel (Classic Serial)
- De: Francois Rabelais, Lavinia Murray (dramatisation)
- Narrado por: David Troughton, full cast
- Duración: 1 h y 53 m
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Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais. Dramatised by Lavinia Murray. Episode 1: Gargantua. The bawdy, exuburant adventures of medieval giants. A dizzying blend of fantasy, comedy, philosophy and scatological humour. The world's a messy place. The first episode depicts the young life of the giant Gargantua, who is reduced to laughable insanity by an education at the hands of paternal ignorance, old crones and syphilitic professors. Episode 2: - Pantagruel. Concluding the bawdy and scatological adventures of Medieval giants.
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- De Itamar Netzer en 12-18-17
De: Francois Rabelais, y otros
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Decameron
- A BBC Radio Drama Adaptation of the Renaissance Classic
- De: Giovanni Boccaccio
- Narrado por: Terry Jones, John Finnemore, Samuel Barnett, y otros
- Duración: 2 h y 22 m
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Composed in the early 1350s, in the wake of the Black Death, The Decameron comprises 100 short stories from all over the world, reset by Boccaccio among the flourishing merchant classes of Renaissance Italy. Their universal themes—love, sex, religion, fate, morality—resonate with us to this day, and their witty, satirical, bawdy voice sounds utterly modern. Monty Python star and medieval historian Terry Jones presents ten BBC Radio dramatisations of tales from Giovanni Boccaccio's humane and comic masterpiece
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Parzival
- De: Wolfram von Eschenbach
- Narrado por: Leighton Pugh
- Duración: 18 h y 13 m
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The greatest of all the medieval romances about the Holy Grail, Parzival was written in the early 13th century. The narrative describes the quest of the Arthurian knight Parzival for the Holy Grail. His journey is filled with incident, from tournaments and sieges to chivalrous deeds and displays of true love.
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Before Hearing the Story, Read the Introduction
- De John en 07-17-21
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The Man Without Qualities
- De: Robert Musil
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 60 h y 30 m
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In 1913, the Viennese aristocracy is gathering to celebrate the 17th jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef, even as the Austro-Hungarian Empire is collapsing and the rest of Vienna is showing signs of rebellion. At the centre of this social labyrinth is Ulrich: a veteran, a seducer and a scientist, yet also a man 'without qualities' and therefore a brilliant and detached observer of his changing world.
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An unmatched intellectual epic
- De Delano en 06-23-22
De: Robert Musil
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Twilight of the Idols, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
- How to Philosophise with a Hammer
- De: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrado por: Michael Lunts
- Duración: 4 h y 22 m
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Though Twilight of the Idols (written in a week in 1888 and subtitled How to Philosophise with a Hammer) came near the end of Nietzsche’s creative life, he actually recommended it as a starting point for the study of his work. This was because from the beginning he viewed it as an introduction to his wide-ranging views.
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Overall great
- De Noah Bradley en 10-18-23
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
- De: Laurence Sterne
- Narrado por: John Keating
- Duración: 21 h y 58 m
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Laurence Sterne's beloved comic novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, is the "biography" of Tristram Shandy - a wonderfully humorous and eccentric narrator who guides the listener from his conception to his birth and on to his life as an adult. The twists and turns of Tristram's life expose him to such memorable characters as Uncle Toby, Corporal Trim, Parson Yorick, Dr. Slop, and the Widow Wadman - whose own stories enrich the central narrative of Tristram's life.
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Thick but rewarding
- De DRew en 07-06-17
De: Laurence Sterne
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Gargantua und Pantagruel
- De: François Rabelais
- Narrado por: Helmut Krauss
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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Der 1493 in der Touraine geborene François Rabelais ist nicht leicht einzuordnen: Er war Mönch, Arzt, humanistischer Gelehrter, unbeschwerter Lebenskünstler und Schriftsteller. Mit seinem Romanzyklus um die Riesen Gargantua, den Vater, und Pantagruel, den Sohn, hat Rabelais ein Werk geschaffen, das die Grenzen des Sag- und Schreibbaren auslotete: Es ist tiefsinnig und obszön, satirisch und sprachlich virtuos und dabei geprägt von einer zutiefst humanen Gesinnung. Der Schauspieler Helmut Krauss gibt Rabelais' Meisterwerk mit all seinen sprachlichen Finessen einzigartig wieder.
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The Canterbury Tales
- De: Geoffrey Chaucer
- Narrado por: Charlton Griffin
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If you want to understand the daily life and psychology of the late Middle Ages, Ronald Ecker’s classic translation of The Canterbury Tales provides one of the very best means of doing so. Within its audio is to be found a broad range of society - high and low, male and female, rich and poor - who express their innermost beliefs and extravagant fantasies in a series of stories they tell as they make their way to Canterbury Cathedral.
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The book was better
- De Lana Whited en 08-28-20
De: Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Golden Ass
- De: Apuleius, E. J. Kenney - translator
- Narrado por: David Timson
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In this ancient picaresque adventure, Lucius, an insatiably curious young man, finds himself transformed into a donkey after his fascination with black magic and witchcraft goes awry. While trapped in his new body, he becomes the property of thieves, farmers, cooks, soldiers and priests, and observes the hypocrisy and ineptitude of Imperial Roman society.
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Not Wiser…But Very Well Informed
- De John en 10-03-17
De: Apuleius, y otros
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- Mathew Baldwin
- 05-28-23
Well performed, a must read
A masterpiece perfectly read. Rabelais is the 16th century Pynchon for me. I highly recommend. The narration is perfect.
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- Patrick Zircher
- 03-04-24
Tall tales and satire from the 16th Century
Written from 1532 to 1564, Gargantua and Pantagruel consists of 5 books is commonly gathered in one very large volume--as it is here. This is one of the earliest European works. Rabelais' name became an adjective for earthy, gross, vulgar, hedonistic humor. Indeed, I heard more varying descriptions of genitals, sex, arseholes, sh!t, p!ss, & farts than any book I've read. Yet it's witty; and skewers politics, religion, & war. Gargantua & Pantagruel themselves are giant, Paul Bunyanesqe figures.
Bill Homewood brings it all vividly to life.
As I was reading Gargantua and Pantagruel, I was taking notes. The language is amazing. A million ideas for period fantasy-- I bought a physical copy of the book as well and think it belongs on a fantasy writer's shelf along with Tolkien, Howard, Dunsany, Dumas, and Leiber.
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- D. Kirby
- 02-03-18
Relentless, but repays diligence
What made the experience of listening to Gargantua and Pantagruel the most enjoyable?
by all means, google image Gustav Dore's illustrations to go with this title
What was one of the most memorable moments of Gargantua and Pantagruel?
the ode to drinking is worth the price of the whole audiobook, assuming you are a lover of the devils brew
What about Bill Homewood’s performance did you like?
Hard to imagine another audible reader doing justice to Rabelais
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- Andrei
- 05-20-23
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That is all that I can say about this very very funny masterpiece. Must read.
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- Jonathan
- 06-01-23
Best narrator ever
It's the classic in all its glory. I've finished 250+ books on Audible and this is the best narration I've heard, bar none.
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- Josh
- 05-17-24
Incredible performance.
The reader really made the humor of the work come through. I can’t imagine this book being read in another way.
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- amazon
- 02-13-20
The king of all the narrators
Oof. Done! Finished my Gargantua & Pantagruel novel. Definitely wouldn’t have made it as a regular book. So much detail, obscure references and endless word play. Parts could be very funny though especially Panurge’s consistent and hilarious though not unreasonable cowardliness. On the last chapter Pantagruel and his friends search and find the the temple of the bottle in which a great book is read by swallowing it’s chapters. Extremely imaginative and a source influence, no doubt, of a great many subsequent great novels. The narrator is the king of all narrators, as far as I’m concerned. Not only giving the the rich langue it’s due but also bringing to life the numberless zany characters that dwell in this remarkable book. One last note, it’s odd that it’s called G&P since Gargantua isn’t in most of the novel but rather his son Pantagruel and and his buddies. I try to imagine this a movie and I simply cannot but I suppose every road movie and novel owes a debt of gratitude.
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- MargaRose
- 01-26-21
Panurge, too merry or to marry, that's a question.
Francois Rabelais - a sublime satirist, salacious master of innuendo & double entendre, and an astute, detailed, unabashed observer of human conduct.
Gargantua & Pantagruel - an immensely surreal, tremendously madcap, enormously outlandish upending of normative behavior by relentless, topsy-turvy, X-rated silliness, interspersed with scientific observation and biting philosophical commentary.
Urquhart and Motteaux translation - jovial, exuberant, luxurious use of English language.
Bill Homewood's reading - an exquisite, stellar, thoroughly delicious performance.
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