Tremendous Trifles: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Tremendous Trifles, 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

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LibriVox recording of Tremendous Trifles by G. K. Chesterton, read by Ray Clare. “None of us think enough of these things on which the eye rests. But don't let us let the eye rest. Why should the eye be so lazy? Let us exercise the eye until it learns to see startling facts that run across the landscape as plain as a painted fence. Let us be ocular athletes. Let us learn to write essays on a stray cat or a coloured cloud. I have attempted some such thing in what follows; but anyone else may do it better, if anyone else will only try.” (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Tremendous Trifles
• Author credits: G. K. Chesterton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 39
• Listed recording duration: 6:15:16

Catalogue topics

• audio books
• essays
• Chesterton

Opening tracks: first 24 of 39

1. 01 - Preface & Chapter 01 — 10:43
2. 02 - Chapter 02 - A Piece of Chalk — 9:50
3. 03 - Chapter 03 - The Secret of a Train — 9:24
4. 04 - Chapter 04 - The Perfect Game — 8:41
5. 05 - Chapter 05 - The Extraordinary Cabman — 8:40
6. 06 - Chapter 06 - An Accident — 9:25
7. 07 - Chapter 07 - The Advantage of Having One Leg — 9:35
8. 08 - Chapter 08 - The End of the World — 9:03
9. 09 - Chapter 09 - In the Place de la Bastille — 8:41
10. 10 - Chapter 10 - On Lying in Bed — 8:31
11. 11 - Chapter 11 - The Twelve Men — 8:49
12. 12 - Chapter 12 - The Wind and the Trees — 8:57
13. 13 - Chapter 13 - The Dickensian — 8:15
14. 14 - Chapter 14 - In Topsy-Turvy Land — 9:16
15. 15 - Chapter 15 - What I Found in My Pocket — 8:34
16. 16 - Chapter 16 - The Dragon's Grandmother — 10:22
17. 17 - Chapter 17 - The Red Angel — 9:21
18. 18 - Chapter 18 - The Tower — 8:38
19. 19 - Chapter 19 - How I Met the President — 10:37
20. 20 - Chapter 20 - The Giant — 10:49
21. 21 - Chapter 21 - The Great Man — 8:28
22. 22 - Chapter 22 - The Orthodox Barber — 9:35
23. 23 - Chapter 23 - The Toy Theatre — 10:44
24. 24 - Chapter 24 - The Tragedy of Twopence — 9:12

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