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 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