The Appetite of Tyranny: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Appetite of Tyranny, 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 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, and perished arguing about the expense of the fire-escape. It is, nevertheless, broadly true that they both were burned because I set fire to their house. That is the story of the thing. The mere facts of the story about the present European conflagration are quite as easy to tell." (Summary by Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Appetite of Tyranny
• Author credits: G. K. Chesterton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 8
• Listed recording duration: 2:07:22

Catalogue topics

• audio books
• essays
• Chesterton
• G. K. Chesterto

Track guide

1. 01 - The Facts of the Case — 13:57
2. 02 - The War on the Word — 17:02
3. 03 - The Refusal of Reciprocity — 19:24
4. 04 - The Appetite of Tyranny — 17:03
5. 05 - The Escape of Folly — 13:49
6. 06 - Letters to an Old Garibaldian - Letter 1 — 16:11
7. 07 - Letters to an Old Garabaldian - Letter 2 — 16:41
8. 08 - Letters to an Old Garabaldian - Letter 3 — 13:18

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