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The Wisdom of Father Brown
Read by Martin Clifton
G. K. Chesterton
This is the second of five books of short stories about G. K. Chesterton’s fictional detective, first published in 1914. Father Brown is a s…
G.K. Chesterton's Newspaper Columns: The New Witness - November 1919 to April 1…
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G. K. Chesterton
A collection of the newspaper columns/essays written by G.K. Chesterton for "The New Witness", under the heading "At the Sign…
Love and Freindship, and Other Early Works
Read by NoelBadrian
Jane Austen
This book draws together some of Jane Austen's earliest literary efforts. It includes "Love & Freindship" and "Lesley Ca…
Thomas Carlyle
Read by David Wales
G. K. Chesterton
A short biography (1902) of a famous writer (Carlyle) by another famous writer (Chesterton). The first half exhibits Chesterton’s sly wit a…
The Man Who Knew Too Much (Version 2)
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G. K. Chesterton
A collection of short adventure stories following Horne and his friend. - Summary by Victoria Bell
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Read by Martin Clifton
G. K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an influential and prolific English writer of the early 20th century. He was a journalist, a poet a…
The Song Against Songs
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G. K. Chesterton
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Song Against Songs by G. K. Chesterton. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Octobe…
Nikolaas Nickleby
Read by Marcel Coenders
Charles Dickens
Dit is het verhaal van Nikolaas Nickleby en zijn zuster Kate die na het sterven van hun vader steun zoeken bij de broer van hun vader. In di…
The Everlasting Man
Read by InTheDesert
G. K. Chesterton
This book needs a preliminary note that its scope be not misunderstood. The view suggested is historical rather than theological, and does n…
Robert Browning (Version 2)
Read by Owlivia
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…
A Ballade of Suicide
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G. K. Chesterton
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of A Ballade of Suicide by G. K. Chesterton. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 20,…
The Club of Queer Trades
Read by David Barnes
G. K. Chesterton
A collection of six wonderfully quirky detective stories, featuring the 'mystic' former judge Basil Grant. Each story reveals a practitioner…
The Innocence of Father Brown
Read by Brian Roberg
G. K. Chesterton
The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) is the first of five collections of mystery stories by G. K. Chesterton starring an unimposing but surp…
St. Francis of Assisi
Read by Phil Chenevert
G. K. Chesterton
For Chesterton, Francis of Assisi is a great paradoxical figure, a man who loved women but vowed himself to chastity; an artist who loved th…
The Chestermarke Instinct
Read by MaryAnn
J. S. Fletcher
Bank manager John Hornbury is missing, as are securities and jewels from the bank’s vault. Gabriel Chestermarke and his nephew Joseph have u…
Greybeards at Play
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G. K. Chesterton
G.K. Chesterton's first publication, "Greybeards at Play" is a collection of poetry and accompanying illustrations. The work is ma…
The Stark Munro Letters
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"The letters of my friend Mr. Stark Munro appear to me to form so connected a whole, and to give so plain an account of some of the tro…
Orthodoxy (Version 2)
Read by Phil Chenevert
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 "atte…
Magic: A Fantastic Comedy
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G. K. Chesterton
George Bernard Shaw goaded the already successful essayist and novelist Chesterton into trying his hand at a play, with this 1913 result. T…
Robert Browning
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
There is an old anecdote, probably apocryphal, which describes how a feminine admirer wrote to Browning asking him for the meaning of one of…