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Varied Types
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)
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Total running time: 4:45:48
Read by Ray Clare
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- 01 – Charlotte Bronte – 00:13:14
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[ogg vorbis - 7.3MB] - 02 – William Morris and his School – 00:14:56
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[ogg vorbis - 8.3MB] - 03 – The Optimism of Byron – 00:13:46
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[ogg vorbis - 7.5MB] - 04 – Pope and the Art of Satire – 00:16:03
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[ogg vorbis - 8.9MB] - 05 – Francis – 00:15:34
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[ogg vorbis - 8.4MB] - 06 – Rostand – 00:13:13
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[ogg vorbis - 7.1MB] - 07 – Charles II – 00:13:46
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[ogg vorbis - 7.3MB] - 08 – Stevenson – 00:12:13
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[ogg vorbis - 6.5MB] - 09 – Thomas Carlyle – 00:18:10
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[ogg vorbis - 9.6MB] - 10 – Tolstoy and the Cult of Simplicity – 00:25:52
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[ogg vorbis - 14.1MB] - 11 – Savonarola – 00:11:31
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[ogg vorbis - 6.2MB] - 12 – The Position of Sir Walter Scott – 00:23:22
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[ogg vorbis - 12.6MB] - 13 – Bret Harte – 00:21:18
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[ogg vorbis - 11.3MB] - 14 – Alfred the Great – 00:10:46
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[ogg vorbis - 5.7MB] - 15 – Maeterlinck – 00:08:00
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[ogg vorbis - 4.3MB] - 16 – Ruskin – 00:07:33
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[ogg vorbis - 4.1MB] - 17 – Queen Victoria – 00:12:27
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[ogg vorbis - 6.8MB] - 18 – The German Emperor – 00:11:10
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[ogg vorbis - 6.0MB] - 19 – Tennyson – 00:11:01
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[ogg vorbis - 5.9MB] - 20 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning – 00:11:53
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Cataloged on May 17, 2008













