The Uses of Diversity: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Uses of Diversity by G. K. Chesterton: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 35 original MP3 tracks, 5:37:56 running time and a link to listen.
The Uses of Diversity, 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 Uses of Diversity by G. K. Chesterton. Read in English by thestorygirl; Elsie Selwyn; Larry Wilson; CoffeeLover17; Elissa Graeser; Devorah Allen; Brian James; Maria de Fátima da Silva; Ciufi Galeazzi; jenno; Farrah; Kathleen Moore; Lucretia B.; Greg Giordano; TriciaG A collection of 35 essays by G.K. Chesterton originally published in his weekly columns in "The Illustrated London News" and the "New Witness". The subjects vary greatly from lamp posts to Jane Austen's Emma, from "On Pigs as Pets" to Mormonism and Christian Science. (Summary by Maria Therese)
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Uses of Diversity
- Author credits: G. K. Chesterton
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 35
- Listed recording duration: 5:37:56
Catalogue topics
- dickens
- essays
- emma
- Chesterton
- Tennyson
- Japanese
- Ireland
- divorce
Opening tracks: first 24 of 35
- 01 - On Seriousness — 12:00
- 02 - On Lamp-Posts — 8:42
- 03 - The Spirits — 8:39
- 04 - Tennyson — 8:35
- 05 - The Domesticity of Detectives — 8:53
- 06 - George Meredith — 6:38
- 07 - The Irishman — 8:41
- 08 - Ireland and the Domestic Drama — 8:59
- 09 - The Japanese — 9:23
- 10 - Christian Science — 7:45
- 11 - The Lawlessness of Lawyers — 10:10
- 12 - Our Latin Relations — 10:01
- 13 - On Pigs as Pets — 7:54
- 14 - The Romance of Rostand — 7:50
- 15 - Wishes — 9:45
- 16 - The Futurists — 9:16
- 17 - The Evolution of Emma — 12:43
- 18 - The Pseudo-Scientific Books — 9:15
- 19 - The Humour of King Herod — 8:39
- 20 - The Silver Goblets — 9:33
- 21 - The Duty of the Historian — 12:14
- 22 - Questions of Divorce — 16:11
- 23 - Mormonism — 9:17
- 24 - Pageants and Dress — 10:18
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