On Everything: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

On Everything, credited to Hilaire Belloc, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of On Everything by Hilaire Belloc. Read in English by volunteer readers. Hillaire Belloc of French by birth, British by naturalization, was a diverse and prolific writer of the early 20th century. His writing runs the range from poetry, political writings and children’s stories. He was a close friend, and sometimes collaborator with fellow Catholic G.K. Chesterton. This book is a collection of essays and other short writings on a vast array of subjects ranging from observations on the barber, the duel, reflections on war and religion. Some are in the form of drama, dialogue and letters but always engaging with wit and satire. - Summary by Larry Wilson

Recording facts

• Recording title: On Everything
• Author credits: Hilaire Belloc
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 39
• Listed recording duration: 8:19:45

Catalogue topics

• satire
• essay
• journalism

Opening tracks: first 24 of 39

1. 01 - On Song — 12:01
2. 02 - On an Empty House — 13:34
3. 03 - The Landfall — 9:22
4. 04 - The Little Old Man — 11:05
5. 05 - The Long March — 13:32
6. 06 - On Saturnalia — 10:35
7. 07 - A Little Conversation in Herefordshire — 10:44
8. 08 - On the Rights of Property — 12:32
9. 09 - The Economist — 11:49
10. 10 - A Little Conversation in Carthage — 10:27
11. 11 - The Strange Companion — 11:01
12. 12 - The Visitor — 14:27
13. 13 - A Reconstruction of the Past — 16:08
14. 14 - The Reasonable Press — 10:31
15. 15 - Asmodeus — 14:49
16. 16 - The Death of the Comic Author — 11:41
17. 17 - On Certain Manners and Customs — 15:04
18. 18 - The Statesman — 12:53
19. 19 - The Duel — 18:16
20. 20 - On a Battle, or “Journalism,” or “Points of View” — 15:02
21. 21 - A Descendant of William Shakespeare — 11:46
22. 22 - On the Approach to Western England — 11:27
23. 23 - The Weald — 9:45
24. 24 - On London and the Houses in It — 12:16

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