Man Who Was Thursday, A Nightmare (Version 3, Dramatic Reading)-G. K. Chesterton

Orthodoxy (Version 2) by G. K. Chesterton.Orthodoxy is a book that has become a classic of Christian apologetics. In the book's preface Chesterton states the purpose is to "attempt an explanation, not of whether the Christian faith can be believed, but of how he personally has come to believe it." In it, Chesterton presents an original view of the Christian religion. He sees it as the answer to natural human needs, the "answer to a riddle" in his own words, and not simply as an arbitrary truth received from somewhere outside the boundaries of human experience.Featured on William Blake.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Man Who Was Thursday, A Nightmare (Version 3, Dramatic Reading) by G. K. Chesterton.This is undoubtedly the best of Chesterton's novels, a thriller which follows Gabriel Syme as he tries to find a way to bring the Supreme Anarchist Council to justice.Featured on William Blake.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Heretics by G. K. Chesterton.The Author Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere "rollicking journalist," he was actually a prolific and gifted writer in virtually every area of literature. A man of strong opinions and enormously talented at defending them, his exuberant personality nevertheless allowed him to maintain warm friendships with people--such as George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells--with whom he vehemently disagreed. Chesterton had no difficulty standing up for what he believed. He was one of the few journalists to oppose the Boer War. His 1922 "Eugenics and Other Evils" attacked what was at that time the most progressive of all ideas, the idea that the human race could and should breed a superior version of itself. In the Nazi experience, history demonstrated the wisdom of his once "reactionary" views.Featured on William Blake.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

St. Francis of Assisi (Version 2) by G. K. Chesterton.Saint Francis of Assisi grew up in a wealthy family and his early life was characterized by splendor, riches and a lavish lifestyle. During an illness, he supposedly had a vision, after which he became disillusioned with his lifestyle and began giving everything away to beggars. His conversion was gradual, but after a pilgrimage to Rome, he supposedly hid in a cave to avoid his father's anger and then began to live a life of poverty and contrition. He is forever associated with simplicity and nature.Featured on William Blake.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Short History of England by G. K. Chesterton.Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a prolific writer on many topics. His views of history were always from the standpoint of men and their interactions, and it may fairly be said he saw all of history as a battle between civilization and barbarism. So it has always been, and that remains true even today. "But it is especially in the matter of the Middle Ages that the popular histories trample upon the popular traditions. In this respect there is an almost comic contrast between the general information provided about England in the last two or three centuries, in which its present industrial system was being built up, and the general information given about the preceding centuries, which we call broadly medieval."Featured on William Blake.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Appetite of Tyranny by G. K. Chesterton.“Unless we are all mad, there is at the back of the most bewildering business a story: and if we are all mad, there is no such thing as madness. If I set a house on fire, it is quite true that I may illuminate many other people's weaknesses as well as my own. It may be that the master of the house was burned because he was drunk; it may be that the mistress of the house was burned because she was stingy, and perished arguing about the expense of the fire-escape. It is, nevertheless, broadly true that they both were burned because I set fire to their house. That is the story of the thing. The mere facts of the story about the present European conflagration are quite as easy to tell."Featured on William Blake.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Tales of the Long Bow by G. K. Chesterton.In short, they are all tall stories; and though tall stories may also be true stories, there is something in the very phrase appropriate to such a topsy-turvydom; for the logician will presumably class a tall story with a corpulent epigram or a long-legged essay.Featured on William Blake.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Lord Kitchener by G. K. Chesterton.“The paradox of all this part of his life lies in this--that, destined as he was to be the greatest enemy of Mahomedanism, he was quite exceptionally a friend of Mahomedans.”Featured on William Blake.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) by William Blake."Innocence" and "Experience" are definitions of consciousness that rethink Milton's existential-mythic states of "Paradise" and "Fall". Blake categorizes our modes of perception that became standard in Romanticism: childhood is a state of innocence rather than original sin, but not immune to the fallen world (experience). The first part of this volume mainly shows happy, innocent perception in pastoral harmony, whereas the second part also deals with darker themes.Featured on William Blake.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Robert Browning (Version 2) by G. K. Chesterton.This mystery of the unconscious man, far deeper than any mystery of the conscious one, existing as it does in all men, existed peculiarly in Browning, because he was a very ordinary and spontaneous man. The same thing exists to some extent in all history and all affairs. Anything that is deliberate, twisted, created as a trap and a mystery, must be discovered at last; everything that is done naturally remains mysterious. ... [T]here is between making a map of a labyrinth and making a map of a mist.Featured on William Blake.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.