Varied Types
G. K. Chesterton
Lu par 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)
(4 hr 45 min)
Chapitres
| Charlotte Bronte | 13:14 | Lu par Ray Clare |
| William Morris and his School | 14:56 | Lu par Ray Clare |
| The Optimism of Byron | 13:46 | Lu par Ray Clare |
| Pope and the Art of Satire | 16:03 | Lu par Ray Clare |
| Francis | 15:34 | Lu par Ray Clare |
| Rostand | 13:13 | Lu par Ray Clare |
| Charles II | 13:46 | Lu par Ray Clare |
| Stevenson | 12:13 | Lu par Ray Clare |
| Thomas Carlyle | 18:10 | Lu par Ray Clare |
| Tolstoy and the Cult of Simplicity | 25:52 | Lu par Ray Clare |
| Savonarola | 11:31 | Lu par Ray Clare |
| The Position of Sir Walter Scott | 23:22 | Lu par Ray Clare |
| Bret Harte | 21:18 | Lu par Ray Clare |
| Alfred the Great | 10:46 | Lu par Ray Clare |
| Maeterlinck | 8:00 | Lu par Ray Clare |
| Ruskin | 7:33 | Lu par Ray Clare |
| Queen Victoria | 12:27 | Lu par Ray Clare |
| The German Emperor | 11:10 | Lu par Ray Clare |
| Tennyson | 11:01 | Lu par Ray Clare |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 11:53 | Lu par Ray Clare |