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The Uses of Diversity

G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

A collection of 35 essays by G.K. Chesterton originally published in his weekly columns in "The Illustrated London News" and the "New Witness". The subjects vary greatly from lamp posts to Jane Austen's Emma, from "On Pigs as Pets" to Mormonism and Christian Science. (Summary by Maria Therese)

Genre(s): Essays & Short Works

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	On Seriousness	thestorygirl	00:12:00
Play 02	On Lamp-Posts	Elsie Selwyn	00:08:42
Play 03	The Spirits	Larry Wilson	00:08:39
Play 04	Tennyson	CoffeeLover17	00:08:35
Play 05	The Domesticity of Detectives	CoffeeLover17	00:08:53
Play 06	George Meredith	CoffeeLover17	00:06:38
Play 07	The Irishman	Elissa Graeser	00:08:41
Play 08	Ireland and the Domestic Drama	Elissa Graeser	00:08:59
Play 09	The Japanese	Larry Wilson	00:09:23
Play 10	Christian Science	Devorah Allen	00:07:45
Play 11	The Lawlessness of Lawyers	Brian James	00:10:10
Play 12	Our Latin Relations	Maria de Fátima da Silva	00:10:01
Play 13	On Pigs as Pets	Elsie Selwyn	00:07:54
Play 14	The Romance of Rostand	Ciufi Galeazzi	00:07:50
Play 15	Wishes	jenno	00:09:45
Play 16	The Futurists	Larry Wilson	00:09:16
Play 17	The Evolution of Emma	jenno	00:12:43
Play 18	The Pseudo-Scientific Books	Larry Wilson	00:09:15
Play 19	The Humour of King Herod	Maria de Fátima da Silva	00:08:39
Play 20	The Silver Goblets	jenno	00:09:33
Play 21	The Duty of the Historian	thestorygirl	00:12:14
Play 22	Questions of Divorce	Farrah	00:16:11
Play 23	Mormonism	Larry Wilson	00:09:17
Play 24	Pageants and Dress	Kathleen Moore	00:10:18
Play 25	On Stage Costume	Kathleen Moore	00:10:07
Play 26	The Yule Log and the Democrat	Kathleen Moore	00:12:16
Play 27	More Thoughts on Christmas	Larry Wilson	00:08:49
Play 28	Dickens Again	Larry Wilson	00:07:50
Play 29	Taffy	Devorah Allen	00:08:51
Play 30	''Ego et Shavius Meus''	Elsie Selwyn	00:06:15
Play 31	The Plan for a New Universe	Larry Wilson	00:11:32
Play 32	George Wyndham	Lucretia B.	00:12:27
Play 33	Four Stupidities	Greg Giordano	00:08:23
Play 34	On Historial Novels	Greg Giordano	00:08:31
Play 35	On Monsters	TriciaG	00:11:34

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