AdventureClassic Fantasy

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book IV

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  • 1894 first published
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Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book IV is an 1894 adventure fiction and classic fantasy novel by François Rabelais.

A free LibriVox audiobook (7 h 07 min) is available.

About Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book IV

This fourth in the five novels about the giants Pantagruel and his father Gargantua is the last novel indusputably attributed to François Rabelais. Seeking an answer to doubts arising in the previous novel, Pantagruel and his friends go to sea to find an oracle (the Holy Bottle). Their adventures provide many opportunities for satire, the most effective being against intolerance, credulity, and cowardice, with Pantagruel himself always affording a calm center of sanity and equilibrium. As the sea and the islands teem with monsters and madmen, so the style erupts: Nearly endless lists tumble out, nonsense words of 20-30 syllables challenge the tongue and baffle the mind, and recondite learning spills with hilarity onto the page. The author's imagination appears to explode with jokes, nonsense, flights of fancy, frivolities, and fun, held loosely together by a set of well-defined characters and a silly quest. (Summary by Thomas A. Copeland)
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Who wrote Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book IV?

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book IV was written by François Rabelais and first published in 1894.

What genre is Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book IV?

It is usually shelved as Adventure and Classic Fantasy.

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Yes — LibriVox volunteers recorded it; the recording runs 7 h 07 min.

What books are similar to Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book IV?

Readers who like it often enjoy Dracula, Treasure Island and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

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