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	The Man Who was Thursday, A Nightmare - G.K. Chesterton LibriVox recording of The Man who was Thursday, a Nightmare, by G.K. Chesterton. Read by Zachary Brewster-Geisz. In a surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, a poet, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist taskforce at Scotland Yard. Lucian Gregory, an anarchist poet, is the only poet in Saffron Park, until he loses his temper in an argument over the purpose of poetry with Gabriel Syme, who takes the opposite view... Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobooks; chesterton Downloads: 114,409 Average rating: (4 reviews)
	Alarms and Discursions - G. K. Chesterton Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an influential English writer of the early 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy, and detective fiction. Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox." He wrote in an off-hand, whimsical prose studded with startling formulations. Chesterton wrote about 4000 essays on various subjects, and "Ararms and Discursions is one of his collections... Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text Keywords: LibriVox; audio books; Chesterton; G. K. Chesterton; essays; humor Downloads: 5,714 Average rating: (0 review)
	Charles Dickens - G. K. Chesterton LibriVox recording of "Charles Dickens" by G. K. Chesterton, read by LibriVox volunteers. G. K. Chesterton was a great admirer of Charles Dickens, and wrote a noted critique of Dickens' works expressing his opinion in his own inimitable style. (Summary by Karen Merline) For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text Keywords: LibriVox; audio books; Chesterton; G. K. Chesterton; Dickens; Charles Dickens Downloads: 7,404 Average rating: (0 review)
	The Defendant - G. K. Chesterton LibriVox recording of "The Defendant" by G. K. Chesterton, read by Ray Clare. A collection of reprinted articles on a wide-range of subject, all in the unique style of G. K. Chesterton. Using wit, paradox, and good humor he “defends” a series of seeming harmless things that need no defense, and in so doing he exposes many of the broken assumptions and dogmatic notions of secular humanism and other trends of his age and of ours... Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text Keywords: LibriVox; audio books; essays; Chesterton; G. K. Chesterton Downloads: 1,929 Average rating: (0 review)
	Eugenics and Other Evils - G. K. Chesterton LibriVox recording of Eugenics and Other Evils by G. K. Chesterton, read by Ray Clare. Most Eugenists are Euphemists. I mean merely that short words startle them, while long words soothe them. And they are utterly incapable of translating the one into the other, however obviously they mean the same thing. Say to them "The persuasive and even coercive powers of the citizen should enable him to make sure that the burden of longevity in the previous generation does not become disproportionate and i... Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text Keywords: LibriVox; audio books; essays; religion; eugenics; Chesterton; G. K. Chesterton Downloads: 5,949 Average rating: (0 review)
	George Bernard Shaw - G. K. Chesterton LibriVox recording of George Bernard Shaw by G. K. Chesterton, read by Ray Clare. Chesterton and Shaw were famous friends and enjoyed their arguments and discussions. Although rarely in agreement, they both maintained good-will towards and respect for each other. However, in his writing, Chesterton expressed himself very plainly on where they differed and why. In Heretics he writes of Shaw: “After belabouring a great many people for a great many years for being unprogressive, Mr... Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text Keywords: LibriVox; audio books; essays; Chesterton; G. K. Chesterton Downloads: 1,924 Average rating: (0 review)
	Manalive - G. K. Chesterton LibriVox recording of Manalive by G. K. Chesterton, read by Ray Clare. The flying blast struck London just where it scales the northern heights, terrace above terrace, as precipitous as Edinburgh. It was round about this place that some poet, probably drunk, looked up astonished at all those streets gone skywards, and (thinking vaguely of glaciers and roped mountaineers) gave it the name of Swiss Cottage, which it has never been able to shake off... Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text Keywords: LibriVox; audio books; Chesterton; G. K. Chesterton; mystery Downloads: 2,169 Average rating: (0 review)
	Miscellaneous Essays - G. K. Chesterton LibriVox recording of miscellaneous essays by G. K. Chesterton, read for LibriVox by students of G. K. Cleveland These nine files are miscellaneous short essays or stories from G.K. Chesterton. They were chosen for not only their brevity but also for being shining exemplars of Chesterton's wit and whimsy. A fun but powerful introduction into the mind of the man that is G.K. Chesterton. (Written by G... Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text Keywords: LibriVox; audio books; G. K, Chesterton; Chesterton; humor Downloads: 10,271 Average rating: (0 review)
	A Short History of England - G. K. Chesterton Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a prolific writer on many topics. His views of history were always from the standpoint of men and their interactions, and it may fairly be said he saw all of history as a battle between civilization and barbarism. So it has always been, and that remains true even today."But it is especially in the matter of the Middle Ages that the popular histories trample upon the popular traditions... Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text Keywords: LibriVox; audio books; history; England; essays; Chesterton; G. K. Chesterton Downloads: 15,151 Average rating: (0 review)
	All Things Considered - G.K. Chesterton LibriVox recording of All Things Considered by G. K. Chesterton. Read by Ray Clare Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of this day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. These reprinted magazine articles are filled with his good natured wit, his masterful use of paradox, and devastating ability to use reductio ad absurdum to destroy the popular myths that drive a society driving full-speed into secular humanism... Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text Keywords: essays; chesterton; audio books; librivox Downloads: 6,317 Average rating: (0 review)
	A Miscellany of Men - G. K. Chesterton Librivox recording of A Miscellany of Men by G. K. Chesterton. Read by Ray Clare. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was among the world's most prolific writers who incorporated relentless logic, wonderful humor, and a clear view of truth into an amazing tool for exposing the foolishness of the policies of the world around him through the device of paradox. It is always great fun, and certainly always a learning experience to read Chesterton... Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text Keywords: librivox; audiobooks; essays; Chesterton; nonfiction Downloads: 3,059 Average rating: (0 review)
	Orthodoxy - G.K. Chesterton With his typical wit and erudition Chesterton presents Christianity as the best answer to a series of interlocking riddles that live in every human heart. (Summary by Pleonic) Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text Keywords: librivox; audiobook; literature; chesterton; orthodoxy Downloads: 18,436 Average rating: (0 review)
	Tremendous Trifles - G. K. Chesterton LibriVox recording of Tremendous Trifles by G. K. Chesterton, read by Ray Clare. “None of us think enough of these things on which the eye rests. But don't let us let the eye rest. Why should the eye be so lazy? Let us exercise the eye until it learns to see startling facts that run across the landscape as plain as a painted fence. Let us be ocular athletes. Let us learn to write essays on a stray cat or a coloured cloud... Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text Keywords: LibriVox; audio books; essays; Chesterton Downloads: 1,399 Average rating: (0 review)
	A Utopia of Usurers - G. K. Chesterton LibriVox recording of Utopia of Usurers, by G. K. Chesterton, read by Ray Clare. “Now I have said again and again (and I shall continue to say again and again on all the most inappropriate occasions) that we must hit Capitalism, and hit it hard, for the plain and definite reason that it is growing stronger. Most of the excuses which serve the capitalists as masks are, of course, the excuses of hypocrites... Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text Keywords: LibriVox; audio books; essays; Chesterton Downloads: 1,053 Average rating: (0 review)
	Varied Types - G. K. Chesterton LibriVox recording of Varied Types by 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... Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text Keywords: LibriVox; audio books; essays; Chesterton Downloads: 3,674 Average rating: (0 review)
	A Chesterton calendar : compiled from the writings of̀ G. K. C.' : both in verse and prose : with a section apart for the moveable feasts - Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Keywords: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Downloads: 257 Average rating: (0 review)
	Authordoxy : being a discursive examination of Mr. G. K. Chesterton's "Orthodoxy" - Handsacre, Alan Keywords: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Downloads: 254 Average rating: (0 review)
	The little wings : poems and essays - Dayrell-Browning, Vivienne Keywords: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Downloads: 157 Average rating: (0 review)
	The Weld sermon, 1913 : preached at St. Benedict's Hindley - O'Connor, John, 1870- 31 Keywords: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Downloads: 100
	The Ballad of the White Horse - G.K. Chesterton LibriVox recording of The Ballad of the White Horse by G.K. Chesterton. Read by Joshua B. Christensen An English epic poem that follows the exploits of Alfred the Great in his defense of Christian civilization in England from the heathen nihilism of the North. Following a string of defeats at the hands of the invading Danes, a vision from heaven in the river island of Athelney fills Alfred with joy and hope... Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text Keywords: librivox; audiobooks; chesterton; poem; epic; ballad; whitehorse Downloads: 6,924 Average rating: (0 review)
	A Chesterton calendar - Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Keywords: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Downloads: 215
	Chesterton, and other essays - Scott, William Thompson, 1866- Keywords: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Downloads: 265 Average rating: (0 review)
	G. K. Chesterton : a critical study - West, Julius, 1891-1918 Keywords: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Downloads: 786 Average rating: (0 review)
	Gilbert Keith Chesterton - Braybrooke, Patrick, 1894- The metadata below describe the original scanning. Follow the "All Files: HTTP" link in the "View the book" box to the left to find XML files that contain more metadata about the original images and the derived formats (OCR results, PDF etc.). See also the What is the directory structure for the texts? FAQ for information about file content and naming conventions. Keywords: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Downloads: 2
	Gilbert K. Chesterton, a criticism The metadata below describe the original scanning. Follow the "All Files: HTTP" link in the "View the book" box to the left to find XML files that contain more metadata about the original images and the derived formats (OCR results, PDF etc.). See also the What is the directory structure for the texts? FAQ for information about file content and naming conventions. Keywords: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Downloads: 2
	G.K. Chesterton, a critical study - West, Julius The metadata below describe the original scanning. Follow the "All Files: HTTP" link in the "View the book" box to the left to find XML files that contain more metadata about the original images and the derived formats (OCR results, PDF etc.). See also the What is the directory structure for the texts? FAQ for information about file content and naming conventions. Keywords: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Downloads: 4
	A vision of life, poems - Figgis, Darrell, 1882-1925 The metadata below describe the original scanning. Follow the "All Files: HTTP" link in the "View the book" box to the left to find XML files that contain more metadata about the original images and the derived formats (OCR results, PDF etc.). See also the What is the directory structure for the texts? FAQ for information about file content and naming conventions. Keywords: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Downloads: 1
	Chesterton day by day : selections from the writings in prose and verse of G. K. Chesterton, with an extract for every day of the year and for each of the moveable feasts - Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Second Edition Keywords: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Downloads: 340 Average rating: (0 review)
	An Englishman looks at the world: being a series of unrestrained remarks upon contemporary matters - Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946 Keywords: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Downloads: 350 Average rating: (0 review)
	Gilbert Keith Chesterton - Braybrooke, Patrick, 1894- Publisher's red cloth over boards Keywords: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Downloads: 58
	Gilbert Keith Chesterton. With an introd. by Arthur F. Thorn - Braybrooke, Patrick, 1894- 26 Keywords: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Downloads: 62
	Gilbert Keith Chesterton - Braybrooke, Patrick, 1894- Keywords: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Downloads: 257 Average rating: (0 review)
	G. K. Chesterton, a criticism - Chesterton, Cecil, 1879-1918 Keywords: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Downloads: 252
	G. K. Chesterton, a critical study - West, Julius, 1891-1918 Bibliography (to July, 1915): p. 185-[191] Keywords: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Downloads: 132
	G.K. Chesterton, a critical study - West, Julius, 1891-1918 26 Keywords: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Downloads: 204
	The little wings : poems and essays - Dayrell-Browning, Vivienne 31 Keywords: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Downloads: 175
	The Napoleon of Notting Hill - G. K. Chesterton LibriVox recording of "The Napoleon of Notting Hill" by G. K. Chesterton, read by Ray Clare. While the novel is humorous (one instance has the King sitting on top of an omnibus and speaking to it as to a horse: "Forward, my beauty, my Arab," he said, patting the omnibus encouragingly, "fleetest of all thy bounding tribe"), it is also an adventure story: Chesterton is not afraid to let blood be drawn in his battles, fought with sword and halberd in the London streets, and Wayne thinks up a few in... Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text Keywords: LibriVox; audio books; G. K. Chesterton; novel Downloads: 2,825 Average rating: (0 review)
	The New Jerusalem - G. K. Chesterton LibriVox recording of "The New Jerusalem" by G. K. Chesterton, read by Ray Clare The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of anyone involved in the production of this book, and are not the views of LibriVox. "On the road to Cairo one may see twenty groups exactly like that of the Holy Family in the pictures of the Flight into Egypt; with only one difference. The man is riding on the ass." "The real mistake of the Muslims is something much more modern in its application than any particula... Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text Keywords: LibriVox; audio books; essays; Jerusalem; Palestine; Chesterton Downloads: 2,176 Average rating: (1 review)
	Poems / by Theodore Maynard ; with an introduction by G.K. Chesterton - Maynard, Theodore, 1890-1956 26 32 Keywords: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Downloads: 149
	Shylock reasons with Mr. Chesterton and other poems - Wolfe, Humbert, 1885-1940 26 31 Keywords: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Downloads: 168
	The Superstition of Divorce - Chesterton, G. K. LibriVox recording of The Superstition of Divorce by G. K. Chesterton, read by Ray Clare. This short book was written in 1920, and in it Chesterton, with his usual wit and incisive logic, presents a series of articles defending marriage and indicating the weaknesses in divorce. He did this 16 year before the first Christian denomination in the world allowed it's members to divorce. Till then Christendom was unanimous in standing against it... Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text Keywords: LibriVox; audio books; essays; Chesterton; religion Downloads: 1,455 Average rating: (0 review)
	Trent's last case - Bentley, E. C. (Edmund Clerihew), 1875-1956 Keywords: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Downloads: 138 Average rating: (0 review)
	The venture : an annual of art and literature - Housman, Laurence, 1865-1959 31 Keywords: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 Downloads: 217
	The Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens - G. K. Chesterton LibriVox recording of The Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by G. K. Chesterton, read by Ray Clare. “These papers were originally published as prefaces to the separate books of Dickens in one of the most extensive of those cheap libraries of the classics which are one of the real improvements of recent times. Thus they were harmless, being diluted by, or rather drowned in Dickens... Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text Keywords: LibriVox; audio books; Chesterton; G. K. Chesterton; essays; Dickens; Charles Dickens; literary criticism Downloads: 1,226 Average rating: (0 review)
	Heretics - G. K. Chesterton LibriVox recording of "Heretics" by G. K. Chesterton, read by Ray Clare. The Author Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere "rollicking journalist," he was actually a prolific and gifted writer in virtually every area of literature. A man of strong opinions and enormously talented at defending them, his exuberant personality nevertheless allowed him to maintain warm friendships with people--such as George Bernard Shaw and... Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text Keywords: LibriVox; audio books; essays; apologetics; Christianity; religion; Chesterton; G. K. Chesterton Downloads: 16,663 Average rating: (0 review)
	The man who was thursday - Gilbert Keith Chesterton Buy this book Amazon.com Barnes&Noble.com - $8.95 Books-A-Million Borders BookSense.com Google Product Search Borrow this book Find this book in a library Perhaps best known to the general public as creator of the "Father Brown" detective stories, G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was especially renowned for his wit, rhetorical brilliance and talent for ingenious and revealing paradox. Those qualities are richly brilliant in the present volume, a hilarious, fast-paced tale about a club of anarchists i... Keywords: Gilbert Keith Chesterton; Kingsley Amis; The man who was thursday Downloads: 31
	The Appetite of Tyranny - G. K. Chesterton LibriVox recording of "The Appetite of Tyranny" by G. K. Chesterton, read by Ray Clare. “Unless we are all mad, there is at the back of the most bewildering business a story: and if we are all mad, there is no such thing as madness. If I set a house on fire, it is quite true that I may illuminate many other people's weaknesses as well as my own. It may be that the master of the house was burned because he was drunk; it may be that the mistress of the house was burned because she was stingy, an... Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text Keywords: LibriVox; audio books; essays; Chesterton; G. K. Chesterto Downloads: 1,783 Average rating: (0 review)
	Authordoxy, being a discursive examination of Mr. G. K. Chesterton's "Orthodoxy." - White, Albert C Keywords: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936; Rationalism Downloads: 168
	English humorists of to-day - Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir, 1871-1949 G.K. Chesterton -- The advantages of having one leg / G. K. Chesterton Keywords: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936; Humorists, English Downloads: 178
	Labyrinth Library 09: The Man Who was Thursday - Chris Gladis A review of "The Man Who was Thursday" by G.K. Chesterton Keywords: book review; fiction; fantasy; classics; G.K. Chesterton Downloads: 29