Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Maisie Ward
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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 | Read by Larry Wilson |
Background for Gilbert Keith Chesterton | 14:36 | Read by Larry Wilson |
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 |