Length5h 16m
About this audiobook
This volume contains a collection of essays written by G. K. Chesterton. These essays were originally published in the 'Daily News', and cover a range of topics ranging from Gargoyles to strolls around Marble Arch. The essays contained herein include: The Surrender of a Cockney, The Nightmare, The Telegraph Poles, A Drama of Dolls, The Men and His Newspaper, The Appetite of Earth, Simmons and the Social Tie, Cheese, The Red Town, The Furrows, and many more. (Goodreads)
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length5 hrs 16 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 11, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introductory: On Gargoyles
22The Anarchist
2I
23How I found the Superman
3II
24The New House
4III
25The Wings of Stone
5The Surrender of a Cockney
26The Three Kinds of Men
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6The Nightmare
27The Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds
7The Telegraph Poles
28The Field of Blood
8A Drama of Dolls
29The Strangeness of Luxury
9The Man and His Newspaper
30The Triumph of the Donkey
10The Appetite of Earth
31The Wheel
11Simmons and the Social Tie
32Five Hundred and Fifty-five
12Cheese
33Ethandune
13The Red Town
34The Flat Freak
14The Furrows
35The Garden of the Sea
15The Philosophy of Sight-seeing
36The Sentimentalist
16A Criminal Head
37The White Horses
17The Wrath of the Roses
38The Long Bow
18The Gold of Glastonbury
39The Modern Scrooge
19The Futurists
40The High Plains
20Dukes
41The Chorus
21The Glory of Grey
42A Romance of the Marshes
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