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)
Genre(s): Essays & Short Works
Language: English
| Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play 01 | Charlotte Bronte | Ray Clare |
00:13:14 |
| Play 02 | William Morris and his School | Ray Clare |
00:14:56 |
| Play 03 | The Optimism of Byron | Ray Clare |
00:13:46 |
| Play 04 | Pope and the Art of Satire | Ray Clare |
00:16:03 |
| Play 05 | Francis | Ray Clare |
00:15:34 |
| Play 06 | Rostand | Ray Clare |
00:13:13 |
| Play 07 | Charles II | Ray Clare |
00:13:46 |
| Play 08 | Stevenson | Ray Clare |
00:12:13 |
| Play 09 | Thomas Carlyle | Ray Clare |
00:18:10 |
| Play 10 | Tolstoy and the Cult of Simplicity | Ray Clare |
00:25:52 |
| Play 11 | Savonarola | Ray Clare |
00:11:31 |
| Play 12 | The Position of Sir Walter Scott | Ray Clare |
00:23:22 |
| Play 13 | Bret Harte | Ray Clare |
00:21:18 |
| Play 14 | Alfred the Great | Ray Clare |
00:10:46 |
| Play 15 | Maeterlinck | Ray Clare |
00:08:00 |
| Play 16 | Ruskin | Ray Clare |
00:07:33 |
| Play 17 | Queen Victoria | Ray Clare |
00:12:27 |
| Play 18 | The German Emperor | Ray Clare |
00:11:10 |
| Play 19 | Tennyson | Ray Clare |
00:11:01 |
| Play 20 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Ray Clare |
00:11:53 |