The Song Against Songs: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Song Against Songs, 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 volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Song Against Songs by G. K. Chesterton. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 16, 2011. Chesterton was a large man, standing 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) and weighing around 21 stone (130 kg; 290 lb). His girth gave rise to a famous anecdote. During World War I a lady in London asked why he was not 'out at the Front'; he replied, 'If you go round to the side, you will see that I am.' On another occasion he remarked to his friend George Bernard Shaw: "To look at you, anyone would think a famine had struck England". Shaw retorted, "To look at you, anyone would think you have caused it". P. G. Wodehouse once described a very loud crash as "a sound like Chesterton falling onto a sheet of tin." (Summary from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Song Against Songs
• Author credits: G.K. Chesterton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 9
• Listed recording duration: 17:19

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• adventure
• humor
• music
• philosophy
• satire

Track guide

1. The Song Against Songs - Read by BG — 1:46
2. The Song Against Songs - Read by GHS — 1:52
3. The Song Against Songs - Read by KGB — 1:37
4. The Song Against Songs - Read by LAH — 1:38
5. The Song Against Songs - Read by LLW — 2:01
6. The Song Against Songs - Read by MG — 2:21
7. The Song Against Songs - Read by REF — 1:51
8. The Song Against Songs - Read by RG — 1:58
9. The Song Against Songs - Read by RN — 2:19

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