A Ballade of Suicide: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Ballade of Suicide, credited to G. K. Chesterton, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of A Ballade of Suicide by G. K. Chesterton. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 20, 2012. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer. He published works on philosophy, ontology, poetry, plays, journalism, public lectures and debates, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction. Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox". Time magazine, in a review of a biography of Chesterton, observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out." For example, Chesterton wrote "Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it." (Summary by Wikipedia )

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Ballade of Suicide
• Author credits: G. K. Chesterton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 38:47

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• humor
• philosophy

Track guide

1. A Ballade of Suicide - Read by ALP — 1:55
2. A Ballade of Suicide - Ready By CMP — 2:24
3. A Ballade of Suicide - Read by DL — 2:06
4. A Ballade of Suicide - Sung by EZWA — 3:40
5. A Ballade of Suicide - Read by FS — 2:24
6. A Ballade of Suicide - Read by GC — 1:42
7. A Ballade of Suicide - Read by JCM — 2:04
8. A Ballade of Suicide - Read by JL — 1:48
9. A Ballade of Suicide - Read by JM2 — 2:04
10. A Ballade of Suicide - Read by JN — 1:32
11. A Ballade of Suicide - Read by LAH — 1:48
12. A Ballade of Suicide - Read by LLW — 2:15
13. A Ballade of Suicide - Read by MG — 2:25
14. A Ballade of Suicide - Read by MJF — 2:22
15. A Ballade of Suicide - Read by REF — 2:06
16. A Ballade of Suicide - Read by RH — 1:56
17. A Ballade of Suicide - Read by RN — 2:27
18. A Ballade of Suicide - Read by UM — 1:54

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