On Anything
Hilaire Belloc
Read by Ray Clare
Long before I knew that the speech of men was misused by them and that they lied in the hearing of the gods perpetually, in those early days through which all men have passed, during which one believes what one is told, an old and crusty woman of great wealth, to whom I was describing what I intended to do with life (which in those days seemed to me of infinite duration), said to me, "You are building castles in Spain." I was too much in awe of this woman not on account of the wealth, but on account of the crust to go further into the matter, but it seemed to me a very foolish thing to say, for I had never been to Spain, and I had nothing wherewith to build a castle and indeed such a project had never passed through my head. -- Hilaire Belloc (7 hr 17 min)
Chapters
On Building Castles in Spain | 10:20 | Read by Ray Clare |
On Clay | 9:50 | Read by Ray Clare |
On No Book | 6:25 | Read by Ray Clare |
On Irony | 8:53 | Read by Ray Clare |
On the Simplicity of Words | 11:09 | Read by Ray Clare |
On Secluded Places | 11:20 | Read by Ray Clare |
On People in Books | 13:41 | Read by Ray Clare |
On the Effect of Time | 14:31 | Read by Ray Clare |
On a Poet | 14:00 | Read by Ray Clare |
On a Prophet | 10:11 | Read by Ray Clare |
On Believing | 10:29 | Read by Ray Clare |
On the Air of the Dordogne | 9:23 | Read by Ray Clare |
On the Sites of the Revolution | 9:27 | Read by Ray Clare |
On a Secret Letter | 13:27 | Read by Ray Clare |
On the Shadows | 9:45 | Read by Ray Clare |
On the Canvasser | 11:12 | Read by Ray Clare |
On the Abstracted Man | 11:11 | Read by Ray Clare |
On the Method of History | 13:06 | Read by Ray Clare |
On History in Travel | 10:59 | Read by Ray Clare |
On the Traveller | 11:26 | Read by Ray Clare |
On Milton | 11:22 | Read by Ray Clare |
On Hans Christian Anderson | 8:35 | Read by Ray Clare |
On the Christmas of 1808 | 7:49 | Read by Ray Clare |
On Communications | 12:25 | Read by Ray Clare |
On Astarte | 11:18 | Read by Ray Clare |
On the Hungry Student | 12:59 | Read by Ray Clare |
On the Brigand of Radicofani | 19:36 | Read by Ray Clare |
On the Honest Man and the Devil | 11:42 | Read by Ray Clare |
On Compiegne | 10:46 | Read by Ray Clare |
On the Candour of Maturity | 12:29 | Read by Ray Clare |
On the Fog | 13:23 | Read by Ray Clare |
On the Spaniard | 11:49 | Read by Ray Clare |
On the Fortress | 11:06 | Read by Ray Clare |
On the Hunter | 14:42 | Read by Ray Clare |
On Our Inheritance | 10:26 | Read by Ray Clare |
On the New Road | 11:52 | Read by Ray Clare |
On Two Towns | 12:44 | Read by Ray Clare |
On the Judgment of Robspierre | 12:09 | Read by Ray Clare |