Gilbert Keith Chesterton: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, credited to Maisie Ward, 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 recording of Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward. Read in English by Larry Wilson; Dick Bourgeois-Doyle; Candace Tuttle; Kathleen Moore; Buchernarr; Carol Pelster; juddmoss; KevinS This is the first and only authorized biography of G.K. Chesterton, written by his friend, Maisie Ward. Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 – 1936), was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. He wrote around 80 books, several hundred poems, some 200 short stories, 4000 essays, and several plays. Chesterton is well known for his fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and for his reasoned apologetics. He converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism in 1922. (Summary by Maria Therese, partially adapted from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
• Author credits: Maisie Ward
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 49
• Listed recording duration: 24:58:47

Catalogue topics

• shaw
• Catholic
• england
• Chesterton
• G.K. Chesterton
• convert
• Anglicanism
• belloc

Opening tracks: first 24 of 49

1. 00 - Introduction — 18:00
2. 01 - Background for Gilbert Keith Chesterton — 14:36
3. 02 - Childhood — 24:13
4. 03 - School Days, Part 1 — 30:17
5. 04 - School Days, Part 2 — 26:02
6. 05 - Art Schools and University College — 33:52
7. 06 - The Notebook — 19:04
8. 07 - Towards a Career — 37:26
9. 08 - Incipit Vita Nova — 20:20
10. 09 - To Frances — 25:14
11. 10 - A Long Engagement — 43:44
12. 11 - Who is G.K.C.?, Part 1 — 29:52
13. 12 - Who is G.K.C.?, Part 2 — 33:37
14. 13 - Married Life in London, Part 1 — 43:40
15. 14 - Married Life in London, Part 2 — 45:25
16. 15 - Clearing the Ground for Orthodoxy — 43:13
17. 16 - Orthodoxy — 29:03
18. 17 - Bernard Shaw, Part 1 — 27:47
19. 18 - Bernard Shaw, Part 2 — 30:46
20. 19 - From Battersea to Beaconsfield, Part 1 — 23:56
21. 20 - From Battersea to Beaconsfield, Part 2 — 33:46
22. 21 - A Circle of Friends — 40:59
23. 22 - The Disillusioned Liberal, Part 1 — 27:33
24. 23 - The Disillusioned Liberal, Part 2 — 29:09

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