On Anything


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