Ray Clare
Heretics
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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 "rollicki…
Alarms and Discursions
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G. K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an influential English writer of the early 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, p…
A Short History of England
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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 interac…
A Miscellany of Men
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G. K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was among the world's most prolific writers who incorporated relentless logic, wonderful humor, and a clear view of…
All Things Considered
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G. K. Chesterton
Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of this day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. These r…
Varied Types
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G. K. Chesterton
Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of our day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Here he …
The Defendant
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G. K. Chesterton
A collection of reprinted articles on a wide-range of subjects, all in the unique style of G. K. Chesterton. Using wit, paradox, and good hu…
The New Jerusalem
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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…
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
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G. K. Chesterton
While the novel is humorous (one instance has the King sitting on top of an omnibus and speaking to it as to a horse: "Forward, my beau…
George Bernard Shaw
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G. K. Chesterton
Chesterton and Shaw were famous friends and enjoyed their arguments and discussions. Although rarely in agreement, they both maintained good…
Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens
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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…
Eugenics and Other Evils
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G. K. Chesterton
Most Eugenists are Euphemists. I mean merely that short words startle them, while long words soothe them. And they are utterly incapable of …
Manalive
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G. K. Chesterton
The flying blast struck London just where it scales the northern heights, terrace above terrace, as precipitous as Edinburgh. It was round a…
Robert Browning
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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…
The Superstition of Divorce
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G. K. Chesterton
This short book was written in 1920, and in it Chesterton, with his usual wit and incisive logic, presents a series of articles defending ma…
Tremendous Trifles
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G. K. Chesterton
“None of us think enough of these things on which the eye rests. But don't let us let the eye rest. Why should the eye be so lazy? Let us ex…
Utopia of Usurers
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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…
The Servile State
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Hilaire Belloc
A clear boundary exists between the servile and the non-servile condition of labour, and the conditions upon either side of that boundary ut…
The Crimes of England
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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…
What I Saw in America
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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…
Irish Impressions
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G. K. Chesterton
“For the Irish Question has never been discussed in England. Men have discussed Home Rule; but those who advocated it most warmly, and as I …
Lord Kitchener
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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 exce…
First and Last
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Hilaire Belloc
“When a man weighs anchor in a little ship or a large one he does a jolly thing! He cuts himself off and he starts for freedom and for the c…
On Something
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Hilaire Belloc
“Now that story is a symbol, and tells the truth. We see some one thing in this world, and suddenly it becomes particular and sacramental; a…
On Nothing & Kindred Subjects
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Hilaire Belloc
“I knew a man once, Maurice, who was at Oxford for three years, and after that went down with no degree. At College, while his friends were …
Europe and the Faith
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Hilaire Belloc
The Catholic brings to history (when I say "history" in these pages I mean the history of Christendom) self-knowledge. As a man in…
The French Revolution
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Hilaire Belloc
“It is, for that matter, self-evident that if one community decides in one fashion, another, also sovereign, in the opposite fashion, both c…
On Anything
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Hilaire Belloc
Long before I knew that the speech of men was misused by them and that they lied in the hearing of the gods perpetually, in those early days…