Varied Types
G. K. Chesterton
Read by Ray Clare
Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of our day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Here he uses his wit and mastery of paradox to bring into focus a number of historical persons who in many ways typify the people who presently shape our world and who in their own right have already shaped Western civilization. These reprinted magazine articles are filled with his good-natured wit and devastating ability to use reductio ad absurdum to destroy the popular myths that drive our society at full-speed into, and expose the utter nonsense that underlies, secular humanism. You will come away with yet another new collection of wonderful quotes.
(Summary by Ray Clare)
(4 hr 45 min)
Chapters
Charlotte Bronte | 13:14 | Read by Ray Clare |
William Morris and his School | 14:56 | Read by Ray Clare |
The Optimism of Byron | 13:46 | Read by Ray Clare |
Pope and the Art of Satire | 16:03 | Read by Ray Clare |
Francis | 15:34 | Read by Ray Clare |
Rostand | 13:13 | Read by Ray Clare |
Charles II | 13:46 | Read by Ray Clare |
Stevenson | 12:13 | Read by Ray Clare |
Thomas Carlyle | 18:10 | Read by Ray Clare |
Tolstoy and the Cult of Simplicity | 25:52 | Read by Ray Clare |
Savonarola | 11:31 | Read by Ray Clare |
The Position of Sir Walter Scott | 23:22 | Read by Ray Clare |
Bret Harte | 21:18 | Read by Ray Clare |
Alfred the Great | 10:46 | Read by Ray Clare |
Maeterlinck | 8:00 | Read by Ray Clare |
Ruskin | 7:33 | Read by Ray Clare |
Queen Victoria | 12:27 | Read by Ray Clare |
The German Emperor | 11:10 | Read by Ray Clare |
Tennyson | 11:01 | Read by Ray Clare |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 11:53 | Read by Ray Clare |