The Everlasting Man: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Everlasting Man, credited to G. K. Chesterton, 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 The Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton. Read in English by InTheDesert This book needs a preliminary note that its scope be not misunderstood. The view suggested is historical rather than theological, and does not deal directly with a religious change which has been the chief event of my own life; and about which I am already writing a more purely controversial volume. It is impossible, I hope, for any Catholic to write any book on any subject, above all this subject, without showing that he is a Catholic; but this study is not specially concerned with the differences between a Catholic and a Protestant. Much of it is devoted to many sorts of Pagans rather than any sort of Christians; and its thesis is that those who say that Christ stands side by side with similar myths, and his religion side by side with similar religions, are only repeating a very stale formula contradicted by a very striking fact. To suggest this I have not needed to go much beyond matters known to us all; I make no claim to learning; and have to depend for some things, as has rather become the fashion, on those who are more learned. As I have more than once differed from Mr. H. G. Wells in his view of history, it is the more right that I should here congratulate him on the courage and constructive imagination which carried through his vast and varied and intensely interesting work; but still more on having asserted the reasonable right of the amateur to do what he can with the facts which the specialists provide. (Prefatory Note)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Everlasting Man
• Author credits: G. K. Chesterton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 10:13:30

Catalogue topics

• philosophy
• history
• Christianity
• Catholicism
• Greek
• Jesus Christ
• apologetics
• monotheism

Track guide

1. 00 - Introduction: The Plan of this Book — 27:30
2. 01 - The Man in the Cave — 39:04
3. 02 - Professors and Prehistoric Men — 38:44
4. 03 - The Antiquity of Civilisation — 1:03:13
5. 04 - God in Comparative Religion — 44:28
6. 05 - Man and Mythologies — 37:41
7. 06 - Demons and Philosphers — 52:12
8. 07 - The War of the Gods and Demons — 33:50
9. 08 - The End of the World — 35:14
10. 09 - The God in the Cave — 40:12
11. 10 - The Strangest Story in the World — 34:32
12. 11 - The Riddles of the Gospel — 28:12
13. 12 - The Witness of the Heretics — 41:25
14. 13 - The Escape from Paganism — 41:14
15. 14 - The Five Deaths of the Faith — 27:39
16. 15 - Conclusion: The Summary of the Book — 22:30
17. 16 - Appendices — 5:50

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