Where No Fear Was: A Book About Fear


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Surely all of us know fear, and know the different types of fear we can experience. In this book, Arthur Christopher Benson walks us through these different types, going through a range of different topics, among others childhood fears many of us will remember, to the fears plaguing us in other periods of our lives, the origins of different fears, and essays on what a number of notable authors (of fiction) had to say about the subject. It should be noted that this book is not a scientific study, though written by an eminent scholar. Instead, all of Arthur Christopher Benson's remarkable talents as a story teller are shaping these chapters. - Summary by Carolin (4 hr 53 min)

Chapters

The Shadow 16:13 Read by Colleen McMahon
Shapes of Fear 7:09 Read by Nappateez
The Darkest Doubt 5:00 Read by Nappateez
Vulnerability 12:00 Read by Mark LoSacco
The Use of Fear 11:15 Read by Mark LoSacco
Fears of Childhood 16:28 Read by Colleen McMahon
Fears of Boyhood 18:01 Read by Gab1
Fears of Youth 12:32 Read by realisticspeakers
Fears of Middle Age 12:10 Read by Karl Thornton
Fears of Age 19:42 Read by Karl Thornton
Dr. Johnson 15:56 Read by Joseph Tabler
Tennyson, Ruskin, Carlyle 23:54 Read by Colleen McMahon
Charlotte Bronte 22:37 Read by realisticspeakers
John Sterling 6:43 Read by happilyblue
Instinctive Fear 16:51 Read by Kenzie Tartaglione
Fear of Life 19:59 Read by Gab1
Simplicity 9:49 Read by Kenzie Tartaglione
Affection 10:29 Read by Sean Lally
Sin 14:55 Read by T. P. Zahm
Serenity 22:02 Read by livhardy