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