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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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This is the first and only authorized biography of G.K. Chesterton, written by his friend, Maisie Ward.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 – 1936), was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. He wrote around 80 books, several hundred poems, some 200 short stories, 4000 essays, and several plays. Chesterton is well known for his fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and for his reasoned apologetics. He converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism in 1922. (Summary by Maria Therese, partially adapted from Wikipedia) (24 hr 58 min)

Chapters

Introduction

18:00

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Background for Gilbert Keith Chesterton

14:36

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Childhood

24:13

Read by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

School Days, Part 1

30:17

Read by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

School Days, Part 2

26:02

Read by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

Art Schools and University College

33:52

Read by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

The Notebook

19:04

Read by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

Towards a Career

37:26

Read by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

Incipit Vita Nova

20:20

Read by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

To Frances

25:14

Read by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

A Long Engagement

43:44

Read by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

Who is G.K.C.?, Part 1

29:52

Read by Candace Tuttle

Who is G.K.C.?, Part 2

33:37

Read by Candace Tuttle

Married Life in London, Part 1

43:40

Read by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

Married Life in London, Part 2

45:25

Read by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

Clearing the Ground for Orthodoxy

43:13

Read by Candace Tuttle

Orthodoxy

29:03

Read by Larry Wilson

Bernard Shaw, Part 1

27:47

Read by Kathleen Moore

Bernard Shaw, Part 2

30:46

Read by Kathleen Moore

From Battersea to Beaconsfield, Part 1

23:56

Read by Candace Tuttle

From Battersea to Beaconsfield, Part 2

33:46

Read by Candace Tuttle

A Circle of Friends

40:59

Read by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

The Disillusioned Liberal, Part 1

27:33

Read by Buchernarr

The Disillusioned Liberal, Part 2

29:09

Read by Buchernarr

The Eye Witness

42:03

Read by Candace Tuttle

Marconi, Part 1

37:36

Read by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

Marconi, Part 2

25:27

Read by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

The Eve of the War (1911-1915), Part 1

29:01

Read by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

The Eve of the War (1911-1915), Part 2

27:08

Read by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

The War Years, Part 1

31:39

Read by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

The War Years, Part 2

36:02

Read by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

After the Armistice

41:12

Read by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

Rome via Jerusalem, Part 1

42:58

Read by Carol Pelster

Rome via Jerusalem, Part 2

39:47

Read by Carol Pelster

Completion

37:33

Read by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

The Reluctant Editor (1925-1930), Part 1

23:43

Read by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

The Reluctant Editor (1925-1930), Part 2

26:50

Read by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

The Distributist League and Distributism

40:07

Read by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

Silver Wedding, Part 1

37:13

Read by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

Silver Wedding, Part 2

34:33

Read by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

Columbus, Part 1

33:38

Read by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

Columbus, Part 2

34:49

Read by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

The Soft Answer

38:05

Read by juddmoss

Our Lady's Tumbler

25:03

Read by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

The Living Voice

40:33

Read by Larry Wilson

Last Days

17:36

Read by KevinS

Appendix A—An Earlier Chesterton

5:49

Read by Larry Wilson

Appendix B—Prize Poem Written at St. Paul's

3:48

Read by Larry Wilson

Appendix C—The Chestertons

15:00

Read by Larry Wilson