Varied Types: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Varied Types by G. K. Chesterton: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 20 original MP3 tracks, 4:45:48 running time and a link to listen.
Varied Types, 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 Varied Types by G. K. Chesterton, read by Ray Clare Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of our day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Here he uses his wit and mastery of paradox to bring into focus a number of historical persons who in many ways typify the people who presently shape our world and who in their own right have already shaped Western civilization. These reprinted magazine articles are filled with his good natured wit and devastating ability to use reductio ad absurdum to destroy the popular myths that drive our society at full-speed into, and expose the utter nonsense that underlies, secular humanism. You will come away with yet another new collection of wonderful quotes. (Summary by Ray Clare)
Recording facts
- Recording title: Varied Types
- Author credits: G. K. Chesterton
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 20
- Listed recording duration: 4:45:48
Catalogue topics
- audio books
- essays
- Chesterton
Track guide
- 01 - Charlotte Bronte — 13:14
- 02 - William Morris and his School — 14:56
- 03 - The Optimism of Byron — 13:46
- 04 - Pope and the Art of Satire — 16:04
- 05 - Francis — 15:35
- 06 - Rostand — 13:14
- 07 - Charles II — 13:46
- 08 - Stevenson — 12:13
- 09 - Thomas Carlyle — 18:10
- 10 - Tolstoy and the Cult of Simplicity — 25:52
- 11 - Savonarola — 11:31
- 12 - The Position of Sir Walter Scott — 23:23
- 13 - Bret Harte — 21:19
- 14 - Alfred the Great — 10:46
- 15 - Maeterlinck — 8:01
- 16 - Ruskin — 7:33
- 17 - Queen Victoria — 12:28
- 18 - The German Emperor — 11:10
- 19 - Tennyson — 11:02
- 20 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning — 11:53
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