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)
Chapitres
| Introduction | 18:00 | Lu par Larry Wilson |
| Background for Gilbert Keith Chesterton | 14:36 | Lu par Larry Wilson |
| Childhood | 24:13 | Lu par Dick Bourgeois-Doyle |
| School Days, Part 1 | 30:17 | Lu par Dick Bourgeois-Doyle |
| School Days, Part 2 | 26:02 | Lu par Dick Bourgeois-Doyle |
| Art Schools and University College | 33:52 | Lu par Dick Bourgeois-Doyle |
| The Notebook | 19:04 | Lu par Dick Bourgeois-Doyle |
| Towards a Career | 37:26 | Lu par Dick Bourgeois-Doyle |
| Incipit Vita Nova | 20:20 | Lu par Dick Bourgeois-Doyle |
| To Frances | 25:14 | Lu par Dick Bourgeois-Doyle |
| A Long Engagement | 43:44 | Lu par Dick Bourgeois-Doyle |
| Who is G.K.C.?, Part 1 | 29:52 | Lu par Candace Tuttle |
| Who is G.K.C.?, Part 2 | 33:37 | Lu par Candace Tuttle |
| Married Life in London, Part 1 | 43:40 | Lu par Dick Bourgeois-Doyle |
| Married Life in London, Part 2 | 45:25 | Lu par Dick Bourgeois-Doyle |
| Clearing the Ground for Orthodoxy | 43:13 | Lu par Candace Tuttle |
| Orthodoxy | 29:03 | Lu par Larry Wilson |
| Bernard Shaw, Part 1 | 27:47 | Lu par Kathleen Moore |
| Bernard Shaw, Part 2 | 30:46 | Lu par Kathleen Moore |
| From Battersea to Beaconsfield, Part 1 | 23:56 | Lu par Candace Tuttle |
| From Battersea to Beaconsfield, Part 2 | 33:46 | Lu par Candace Tuttle |
| A Circle of Friends | 40:59 | Lu par Dick Bourgeois-Doyle |
| The Disillusioned Liberal, Part 1 | 27:33 | Lu par Buchernarr |
| The Disillusioned Liberal, Part 2 | 29:09 | Lu par Buchernarr |
| The Eye Witness | 42:03 | Lu par Candace Tuttle |
| Marconi, Part 1 | 37:36 | Lu par Dick Bourgeois-Doyle |
| Marconi, Part 2 | 25:27 | Lu par Dick Bourgeois-Doyle |
| The Eve of the War (1911-1915), Part 1 | 29:01 | Lu par Dick Bourgeois-Doyle |
| The Eve of the War (1911-1915), Part 2 | 27:08 | Lu par Dick Bourgeois-Doyle |
| The War Years, Part 1 | 31:39 | Lu par Dick Bourgeois-Doyle |
| The War Years, Part 2 | 36:02 | Lu par Dick Bourgeois-Doyle |
| After the Armistice | 41:12 | Lu par Dick Bourgeois-Doyle |
| Rome via Jerusalem, Part 1 | 42:58 | Lu par Carol Pelster |
| Rome via Jerusalem, Part 2 | 39:47 | Lu par Carol Pelster |
| Completion | 37:33 | Lu par Dick Bourgeois-Doyle |
| The Reluctant Editor (1925-1930), Part 1 | 23:43 | Lu par Dick Bourgeois-Doyle |
| The Reluctant Editor (1925-1930), Part 2 | 26:50 | Lu par Dick Bourgeois-Doyle |
| The Distributist League and Distributism | 40:07 | Lu par Dick Bourgeois-Doyle |
| Silver Wedding, Part 1 | 37:13 | Lu par Dick Bourgeois-Doyle |
| Silver Wedding, Part 2 | 34:33 | Lu par Dick Bourgeois-Doyle |
| Columbus, Part 1 | 33:38 | Lu par Dick Bourgeois-Doyle |
| Columbus, Part 2 | 34:49 | Lu par Dick Bourgeois-Doyle |
| The Soft Answer | 38:05 | Lu par juddmoss |
| Our Lady's Tumbler | 25:03 | Lu par Dick Bourgeois-Doyle |
| The Living Voice | 40:33 | Lu par Larry Wilson |
| Last Days | 17:36 | Lu par KevinS |
| Appendix A—An Earlier Chesterton | 5:49 | Lu par Larry Wilson |
| Appendix B—Prize Poem Written at St. Paul's | 3:48 | Lu par Larry Wilson |
| Appendix C—The Chestertons | 15:00 | Lu par Larry Wilson |