The Defendant: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Defendant by G. K. Chesterton: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 18 original MP3 tracks, 3:16:15 running time and a link to listen.
The Defendant, 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 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. (Summary by Ray Clare)
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Defendant
- Author credits: G. K. Chesterton
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 18
- Listed recording duration: 3:16:15
Catalogue topics
- audio books
- essays
- Chesterton
- G. K. Chesterton
Track guide
- Ch 01 - In Defence of a New Edition — 6:59
- Ch 02 - Introduction — 9:44
- Ch 03 - A Defence of Penny Dreadfuls — 14:40
- Ch 04 - A Defence of Rash Vows — 13:24
- Ch 05 - A Defence of Skeletons — 11:00
- Ch 06 - A Defence of Publicity — 11:43
- Ch 07 - A Defence of Nonsense — 12:34
- Ch 08 - A Defence of Planets — 11:01
- Ch 09 - A Defence of China Shepherdesses — 10:24
- Ch 10 - A Defence of Useful Information — 13:20
- Ch 11 - A Defence of Heraldry — 8:54
- Ch 12 - A Defence of Ugly Things — 9:49
- Ch 13 - A Defence of Farce — 11:37
- Ch 14 - A Defence of Humility — 11:55
- Ch 15 - A Defence of Slang — 10:12
- Ch 16 - A Defence of Baby-Worship — 8:07
- Ch 17 - A Defence of Detective Stories — 9:07
- Ch 18 - A Defence of Patriotism — 11:50
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