The Flying Inn: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Flying Inn, 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 Flying Inn, by G. K. Chesterton. Read by volunteer readers. The Flying Inn is a novel first published in 1914 by G.K. Chesterton. It is set in a future England where a bizarre form of "Progressive" Islam has triumphed and largely dominates the political and social life of the country. Because of this, alcohol sales are effectively prohibited. The plot centers around the adventures of Humphrey Pump and Captain Patrick Dalroy, who roam the country in their cart with a barrel of rum in an attempt to evade Prohibition, exploiting loopholes in the law to temporarily prevent the police taking action against them. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Flying Inn
• Author credits: G. K. Chesterton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 9:46:38

Catalogue topics

• satire
• humor
• fiction
• prohibition

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 01 - A Sermon on Inns — 20:14
2. 02 - The End of Olive Island — 20:35
3. 03 - The Sign of the 'Old Ship' — 16:03
4. 04 - The Inn Finds Wings — 17:16
5. 05 - The Astonishment of the Agent — 27:37
6. 06 - The Hole in Heaven — 21:38
7. 07 - The Society of Simple Souls — 20:07
8. 08 - Vox Populi Vox Dei — 19:32
9. 09 - The Higher Cristicism and Mr. Hibbs — 26:32
10. 10 - The Character of Quoodle — 25:38
11. 11 - Vegetarianism in the Drawing Room — 26:38
12. 12 - Vegetarianism in the Forest — 25:00
13. 13 - The Battle of the Tunnel — 31:57
14. 14 - The Creature that Man Forgets — 18:07
15. 15 - The Songs of the Car Club — 23:21
16. 16 - The Seven Moods of Dorian — 26:14
17. 17 - The Poet in Parliament — 31:13
18. 18 - The Republic of Peaceways — 27:21
19. 19 - The Hospitality of the Captain — 23:25
20. 20 - The Turk and the Futurists — 23:16
21. 21 - The Road to Roundabout — 27:14
22. 22 - The Chemistry of Mr. Crooke — 28:46
23. 23 - The March on Ivywood — 16:29
24. 24 - The Enigmas of Lady Joan — 33:29

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