Audiobooks by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Confessional

"This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Now that I kneel at the throne, O Queen, Pity and pardon me. Much have I striven to sing the same, Brother of beast and tree; Yet when the stars catch me alone Never a linnet sings— And the blood of a man is a bitter voice And cries for foolish things."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (Author), AI Voice Rachel (Narrator)

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[German] - Pater Brown, Edition 14: Vier Spannende Kriminalhörspiele - 'Pater Brown' (ungekürzt)

"Eigentlich hatte Pater Brown die sanften Bergzüge und idyllischen Seen des Lake District besucht, um Urlaub zu machen. Doch kein Fleckchen Erde kann friedlich genug sein, um nicht den Spürsinn des Geistlichen zu wecken. Und so ist er mehr als skeptisch, als ihm ein Bericht über ein entlegenes Dorf zu Ohren kommt, dessen Bewohner ihren Priester davonjaget haben und nur noch ihren eigenen Schutzpatron anbeten. Tatsächlich scheint es mehrere Unfälle gegeben zu haben, die nur dank des Auftauchens einer Engelserscheinung glimpflich ausgegangen sind. Als es kurz nach Pater Browns Ankunft in dem Dorf zu einem wirklichen Unglück kommt, spitzt sich die Lage für den ungebetenen Gast dort mehr und mehr zu."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (Author), Arianne Borbach, Christian Rudolf, Douglas Welbat, Helmut Krauss, Manja Doering, Rüdiger Schulzki, Volker Brandt (Narrator)

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French and English

"This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. It is obvious that there is a great deal of difference between being international and being cosmopolitan. All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national. And it is largely because those who call themselves the friends of peace have not dwelt sufficiently on this distinction that they do not impress the bulk of any of the nations to which they belong. International peace means a peace between nations, not a peace after the destruction of nations, like the Buddhist peace after the destruction of personality. The golden age of the good European is like the heaven of the Christian: it is a place where people will love each other; not like the heaven of the Hindu, a place where they will be each other. And in the case of national character this can be seen in a curious way. It will generally be found, I think, that the more a man really appreciates and admires the soul of another people the less he will attempt to imitate it; he will be conscious that there is something in it too deep and too unmanageable to imitate. The Englishman who has a fancy for France will try to be French; the Englishman who admires France will remain obstinately English. This is to be particularly noticed in the case of our relations with the French, because it is one of the outstanding peculiarities of the French that their vices are all on the surface, and their extraordinary virtues concealed. One might almost say that their vices are the flower of their virtues."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (Author), AI Voice Grace (Narrator)

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[German] - Pater Brown, Edition 13: Vier Spannende Kriminalhörspiele - 'Pater Brown' (ungekürzt)

"Eine Dame meldet sich nicht mehr. Pater Brown reist auf Bitten seiner Nachbarin nach Cornwall, wo die Vermisste in einem Sanatorium gearbeitet hat. Mit Hilfe der jungen Lucy Paxton startet er seine Recherchen und macht kurz darauf eine grausige Entdeckung. Ab diesem Zeitpunkt scheint niemand in dem Sanatorium hoch über Manderley Cove mehr sicher zu sein. Die Legende der schwarzen Nonne ist plötzlich wieder in aller Munde, und tatsächlich wird die geisterhafte Erscheinung gleich von mehreren Personen gesehen. Doch Pater Brown glaubt nicht an Gespenster. Er setzt alles daran, die unheimliche Gestalt zu stellen und die alles entscheidende Frage zu klären: welcher gerissene Mörder hält sich hinter der schwarzen Maskierung verborgen?"

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (Author), Douglas Welbat, Helmut Krauss, Marie Bierstedt, Michael Bideller, Sascha Rotermund, Uschi Hugo, Volker Brandt (Narrator)

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[German] - Pater Brown, Edition 12: Vier Spannende Kriminalhörspiele - 'Pater Brown' (ungekürzt)

"Der geistliche Pater Brown löst Fälle mit seinem kirchlichen Background. Entdeckt diese einmalige Sammler Edition mit Fällen wie Im Auge des Jaguars, Signum Regis etc."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (Author), Douglas Welbat, Helmut Krauss, Marie Bierstedt, Michael Bideller, Sascha Rotermund, Uschi Hugo, Volker Brandt (Narrator)

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[German] - Pater Brown, Edition 11: Vier Spannende Kriminalhörspiele - 'Pater Brown' (ungekürzt)

"Der geistliche Pater Brown löst Fälle mit seinem kirchlichen Background. Entdeckt diese einmalige Sammler Edition mit Fällen wie Aus dem Ei gepellt, Der weiße Skorpion etc."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (Author), Douglas Welbat, Helmut Krauss, Marie Bierstedt, Michael Bideller, Sascha Rotermund, Uschi Hugo, Volker Brandt (Narrator)

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[German] - Pater Brown, Edition 10: Vier Spannende Kriminalhörspiele - 'Pater Brown' (ungekürzt)

"Der geistliche Pater Brown löst Fälle mit seinem kirchlichen Background. Entdeckt diese einmalige Sammler Edition mit Fällen wie Nur im Gefängnis sicher, Wo der Pater starb etc."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (Author), Douglas Welbat, Helmut Krauss, Marie Bierstedt, Michael Bideller, Sascha Rotermund, Uschi Hugo, Volker Brandt (Narrator)

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[German] - Pater Brown, Edition 9: Vier Spannende Kriminalhörspiele - 'Pater Brown' (ungekürzt)

"Der geistliche Pater Brown löst Fälle mit seinem kirchlichen Background. Entdeckt diese einmalige Sammler Edition mit Fällen wie Rätsel um Milena, Der Kuss des Todes etc."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (Author), Douglas Welbat, Helmut Krauss, Marie Bierstedt, Michael Bideller, Sascha Rotermund, Uschi Hugo, Volker Brandt (Narrator)

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[German] - Pater Brown, Edition 8: Vier Spannende Kriminalhörspiele - 'Pater Brown' (ungekürzt)

"Das hätte sich Pater Brown nun wirklich nicht träumen lassen! Ein unerwarteter Anruf beschert ihm die wohl bisher ungewöhnlichste Anstellung seiner bisherigen Laufbahn. Seine neue Gemeinde ist die Besatzung einer Ölplattform, weit draußen in den Weiten der Nordsee. Von Anfang an steht seine Mission unter keinem guten Stern. Nicht nur, dass ein ungewöhnlich starker Sturm heraufzieht und die Arbeiten behindert, zu allem Überfluss scheint auch noch ein Saboteur unter der Besatzung zu sein, der auch vor Mord nicht zurückschreckt! Allein auf rauer See nimmt Pater Brown die Ermittlungen auf!"

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (Author), Christian Rode, Ole Pfennig, Volker Brandt (Narrator)

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10 Christmas Stories: Classic Christmas Stories. Christmas Tales / Vintage Christmas Tales For Children And Adults: A Letter from Santa Claus by Mark Twain, A Christmas Inspiration by Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter and ot

"Before you is a timeless classic that will never cease to warm your heart and fill the long winter evenings with anticipated wonders and merry celebrations. This collection of Christmas stories by famous authors is the best gift for the holidays. These festive stories range from touching and magical to funny and sad. They include the best classic works of literature; whose themes involve the nativity and the magic of Christmas. Prepare yourself to experience true holiday magic and create new Christmas traditions as you read through these classics year after year. Contents: A Letter from Santa Claus by Mark Twain; A Christmas Inspiration by Lucy Maud Montgomery; The Tailor of Gloucester by Beatrix Potter; A Kidnapped Santa Claus by Lyman Frank Baum; Vanka by Anton Chekhov; Christmas Every Day by William Dean Howells; The Three Kings by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; The Fir Tree by Hans Christian Andersen; Christmas in India by Joseph Rudyard Kipling; A Christmas Carol by Gilbert Keith Chesterton."

Anton Chekhov, Beatrix Potter, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Hans Christian Andersen, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Joseph Rudyard Kipling, L.M. Montgomery, Lyman Frank Baum, Mark Twain, William Dean Howells (Author), Trevor O'Hare (Narrator)

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The Ballad Of The White Horse: An epic poem about King Alfred's Christian endeavors resisting the Viking conquest of England

"'The Last Great Epic Poem in the English Language' - Dale Ahlquist 'The ending is absurd. The brilliant smash and glitter of the words and phrases (when they come off, and are not mere loud colours) cannot disguise the fact that G. K. C. knew nothing whatever about the 'North', heathen or Christian.' - JRR Tolkien The tale of King Alfred, the Christian king who in 878AD battled a Viking invasion that had conquered the rest of England and burnt some cakes. He then became the last holdout of resistance against the invaders and forced the conversion of the Danish king Guthrum to Christianity after the battle of Ethandun. Chesterton says 'This ballad needs no historical notes, for the simple reason that it does not profess to be historical. All of it that is not frankly fictitious, as in any prose romance about the past, is meant to emphasize tradition rather than history. That is the use of tradition: it telescopes history.' Named after the chalk horses carved into English hills (and partly set at Uffington), it begins with an exhortation to true Christianity in the face of despair and defeat, and ends with a prediction of more barbarian invasions. It focuses on the nature of faith in times of despair, and on the true strength of local kings in the face of empires. '... you and all the kind of Christ Are ignorant and brave, And you have wars you hardly win And souls you hardly save. ... 'In some far century, sad and slow, I have a vision, and I know The heathen shall return. ... 'They shall come mild as monkish clerks, With many a scroll and pen; And backward shall ye turn and gaze, Desiring one of Alfred's days, When pagans still were men.'"

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (Author), Charles Featherstone (Narrator)

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25+ The World's Greatest Short Stories. Vol. 1: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Gold Bug, Daisy Miller, The Yellow Wallpaper, The Call of Cthulhu and other

"Contents: - Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Edgar Allan Poe. The Gold Bug - Herman Melville. Bartleby, the Scrivener - Bret Harte. The Luck of Roaring Camp - Leo Tolstoy. The Death of Ivan Ilyich   - Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man - Rudyard Kipling. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi - Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper - Anton Chekhov. The Lady with the Dog - D.H. Lawrence. The Prussian Officer - James Joyce. Araby - Ivan Turgenev. First Love - Nikolay Gogol. The Mantle -  Mikhail Bulgakov. The Embroidered Towel - Ivan Bunin. The Gentleman from San Francisco - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. Carmilla - O.Henry. The Gift of the Magi - Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge - Robert Louis Stevenson. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - H.G. Wells. The Magic Shop - W.W. Jacobs. The Monkey's Paw - Arthur Conan Doyle. His Last Bow - Henry James. Daisy Miller - H.P. Lovecraft. The Call of Cthulhu - Alexsandr Pushkin. The Queen of Spades - G.K. Chesterton. The Blue Cross"

Alexander Pushkin, Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, Anton Chekhov, Bret Harte, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, D.H. Lawrence, Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, H.G. Wells, H.P. Lovecraft, Henry James, Herman Melville, Ivan Bunin, Ivan Turgenev, James Joyce, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Bulgakov, Nikolai Gogol, O. Henry, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Washington Irving, William Wymark Jacobs (Author), David McCord, David Miles, Frank Bailey, Jason Dettrey, Jeremy Albret, Jim Girard, Joanne Thompson, Joe Phoenix, John Lingua, Judy Kriz, Mark Bowen, Martina Mercer-Hall, Michael Goodrick, Mike Hogan, Paul Gibson, Peter Coates, Richard Williams, Sharon Plummer (Narrator)

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