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The Man Who Was Thursday (Version 2)
Read by Anthony Ogus
G. K. Chesterton
Subtitled by the author as a "Nightmare", this is a fantasy, comic thriller about a plot to end the world by a group of anarchists…
St. Francis of Assisi
G. K. Chesterton
In this brief but lively biography, G.K. Chesterton brings all his typical wit and insight into discussing Francis of Assisi. Francis is arg…
The Flying Inn
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G. K. Chesterton
The Flying Inn is a novel first published in 1914 by G.K. Chesterton. It is set in a future England where a bizarre form of "Progressiv…
The Appetite of Tyranny
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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 madn…
The Man Who Was Thursday, A Nightmare (Version 3, Dramatic Reading)
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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 An…
The Incredulity of Father Brown (Version 2)
Read by Kirsten Wever
G. K. Chesterton
These eight Father Brown mysteries depart from Chesterton’s two earlier Father Brown collections – The Innocence of Father Brown, and The Wi…
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Read by Karen Savage
Baroness Emma Orczy
The classic story of Sir Percy Blakeney and his alter ego, the Scarlet Pimpernel. A great adventure, set during the French Revolution. (Summ…
Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
“These papers were originally published as prefaces to the separate books of Dickens in one of the most extensive of those cheap libraries o…
Leo Tolstoy
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G. K. Chesterton
Three men of letters give insightful essays on the work of Leo Tolstoy. (Summary by Larry Wilson)
The Primitive
Read by Jim Locke
Chester Himes
A nerve-twisting novel of passion and destruction (Summary by a literary critic)
Dragon Ore
Read by Brian Rathbone
Brian Rathbone
A World of Godsland novel.
Clinging to life, Catrin Volker struggles to regain her strength as her foes go in search of even greater power. …
What I Saw in America
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
“Let me begin my American impressions with two impressions I had before I went to America. One was an incident and the other an idea; and wh…
The Crimes of England
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
"Second, when telling such lies as may seem necessary to your international standing, do not tell the lies to the people who know the t…
The Secret of Father Brown
Read by Kirsten Wever
G. K. Chesterton
This is the fourth collection of mysteries featuring the very smart and even more devout catholic priest, Father Brown. (It follows The Inno…
The Incredulity of Father Brown
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G. K. Chesterton
Originality and humor characterize the plots of these clever detective stories. The mysteries are solved by the detective priest, Father Bro…
An Essay on Man
Read by Martin Geeson
Alexander Pope
Pope’s Essay on Man, a masterpiece of concise summary in itself, can fairly be summed up as an optimistic enquiry into mankind’s place in th…
Utopia of Usurers
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
“Now I have said again and again (and I shall continue to say again and again on all the most inappropriate occasions) that we must hit Capi…
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A Study In Scarlet
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A Study in Scarlet By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Dramatised for radio by Michael Hardwick With: Carleton Hobb…
The New Jerusalem
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of anyone involved in the production of this book, and are not the views of LibriVox.Dale A…
Short Poetry Collection 032
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G. K. Chesterton
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 032: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.