Fancies Versus Fads
G. K. Chesterton
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A Collection of 31 essays from G.K. Chesterton.
“I have strung these things together on a slight enough thread; but as the things themselves are slight, it is possible that the thread (and the metaphor) may manage to hang together. These notes range over very variegated topics and in many cases were made at very different times. They concern all sorts of things from lady barristers to cave-men, and from psycho-analysis to free verse. Yet they have this amount of unity in their wandering, that they all imply that it is only a more traditional spirit that is truly able to wander.” (From the Introduction) (7 hr 33 min)
Chapters
| Introduction | 7:32 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| The Romance of Rhyme | 39:23 | Read by realisticspeakers |
| Hamlet and the Psycho-Analyst | 32:07 | Read by John |
| The Meaning of Mock Turkey | 21:20 | Read by Linda Johnson |
| Shakespeare and the Legal Lady | 15:55 | Read by Campbell Schelp |
| On Being an Old Bean | 10:46 | Read by Linda Johnson |
| The Fear of the Film | 10:52 | Read by Tomas Peter |
| Wings and the Housemaid | 10:43 | Read by Phil Chenevert |
| The Slavery of Free Verse | 12:28 | Read by thestorygirl |
| Prohibition and the Press | 10:32 | Read by Ciufi Galeazzi |
| The Mercy of Mr. Arnold Bennett | 13:22 | Read by MLC13 |
| A Defense of Dramatic Unities | 10:47 | Read by MLC13 |
| The Boredom of Butterflies | 9:40 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| The Terror of a Toy | 8:43 | Read by Justin S Barrett |
| False Theory and the Theatre | 11:24 | Read by tommack |
| The Secret Society of Mankind | 12:59 | Read by Ciufi Galeazzi |
| The Sentimentalism of Divorce | 11:00 | Read by Linda Johnson |
| Street Cars and Stretching the Law | 13:00 | Read by thestorygirl |
| Why Reformers Go Wrong | 11:40 | Read by Greg Giordano |
| The Innocence of the Criminal | 12:30 | Read by tommack |
| The Prudery of the Feminists | 9:54 | Read by Brian James |
| How Mad Laws are Made | 10:59 | Read by April6090 |
| The Pagoda of Progress | 11:11 | Read by thestorygirl |
| The Myth of the 'Mayflower' | 11:36 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
| Much Too Modern History | 9:55 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
| The Evolution of Slaves | 13:32 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
| Is Darwin Dead? | 13:59 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
| Turning Inside Out | 22:58 | Read by Linda Johnson |
| Strikes and the Spirit of Wonder | 11:02 | Read by Ciufi Galeazzi |
| A Note on Old Nonsense | 11:41 | Read by April6090 |
| Milton and Merry England | 40:16 | Read by Linda Johnson |