What's Wrong With the World: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

What's Wrong With the World, 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 What's Wrong With the World, by GK Chesterton. Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) has been called the "prince of paradox". Time magazine observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out." His prolific and diverse output included journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy and detective fiction. The title of Chesteron's 1910 collection of essays was inspired by an essay title given to him two years earlier by The Times newspaper, which had asked a number of authors to write on the topic: "What's wrong with the world?". Chesterton's answer at that time was the shortest of those submitted - he simply wrote: "Dear Sirs, I am. Sincerely yours, G.K. Chesterton". In this collection he gives a fuller treatment of the question, treating it with his characteristic conservative wit. (Summary by Wikipedia and Carl Manchester)

Recording facts

• Recording title: What's Wrong With the World
• Author credits: G.K. Chesterton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 48
• Listed recording duration: 7:04:33

Catalogue topics

• non-fiction
• essays
• short works

Opening tracks: first 24 of 48

1. 00 - Dedication — 3:03
2. 01 - The Medical Mistake — 7:44
3. 02 - Wanted: An Unpractical Man — 10:29
4. 03 - The New Hypocrite — 13:07
5. 04 - The Fear of the Past — 19:22
6. 05 - The Unfinished Temple — 12:07
7. 06 - The Enemies of Property — 9:51
8. 07 - The Free Family — 8:06
9. 08 - The Wildness of Domesticity — 8:54
10. 09 - The History of Hudge and Gudge — 11:04
11. 10 - Oppression by Optimism — 6:36
12. 11 - The Homelessness of Jones — 9:22
13. 12 - The Charm of Jingoism — 8:22
14. 13 - Wisdom and the Weather — 14:13
15. 14 - The Common Vision — 7:11
16. 15 - The Insane Necessity — 14:38
17. 16 - The Unmilitary Suffragette — 6:50
18. 17 - The Universal Stick — 13:56
19. 18 - The Emancipation of Domesticity — 10:07
20. 19 - The Romance of Thrift — 11:36
21. 20 - The Coldness of Chloe — 8:35
22. 21 - The Pedant and the Savage — 6:25
23. 22 - The Modern Surrender of Woman — 8:04
24. 23 - The Brand of the Fleur de Lis — 6:43

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