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Varied Types

Gelesen von Ray Clare

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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

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William Morris and his School

14:56

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The Optimism of Byron

13:46

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Pope and the Art of Satire

16:03

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Francis

15:34

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Rostand

13:13

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Charles II

13:46

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Stevenson

12:13

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Thomas Carlyle

18:10

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Tolstoy and the Cult of Simplicity

25:52

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Savonarola

11:31

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The Position of Sir Walter Scott

23:22

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Bret Harte

21:18

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Alfred the Great

10:46

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Maeterlinck

8:00

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Ruskin

7:33

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Queen Victoria

12:27

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The German Emperor

11:10

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Tennyson

11:01

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

11:53

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