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02/06/2024
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Quintessence of Ibsenism (Version 2)

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Chapter: 19 | Listen: 4

This is an essay providing an extended analysis of the works of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen and of Ibsen’s critical reception in England. Shaw uses this “exposition of Ibsenism” to illustrate the imperfections of British society, using the idea of an imaginary “community of a thousand persons,” divided into three categories: Philistines, Idealists, and the lone Realist. The main discussion revolves around Ibsen’s recurring topic of the strong character holding out against social hypocrisy, while stating in his essay’s final sentence that the quintessence of Ibsenism is that “there is no formula.” ( Michele Eaton)     [chương_files]  

02/06/2024
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United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 2

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Chapter: 14 | Listen: 8

This is the second LibriVox collection of speeches given in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The collection comprises recordings of 14 historic speeches given to the UK House of Commons between 1766 and 1956. Readings are of speeches origninally given by parliamentarians including William Pitt the Elder, John Stuart Mill, Dadabhai Naoroji, Lady Astor, Stanley Baldwin, Clement Attlee, Aneurin Bevan and Tony Benn. (Summary by Carl Manchester)     [chương_files]  

02/06/2024
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Superstition of Divorce

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Chapter: 9 | Listen: 5

This short book was written in 1920, and in it Chesterton, with his usual wit and incisive logic, presents a series of articles defending marriage and indicating the weaknesses in divorce. He did this 16 years before the first Christian denomination in the world allowed its members to divorce. Till then Christendom was unanimous in standing against it. Chesterton saw clearly the trends of this time, and delivered this defense. (Summary by Ray Clare)     [chương_files]  

02/06/2024
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Selected Essays

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Chapter: 22 | Listen: 11

Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) was, according to Emma Goldman, “the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced.” Today she is not widely known as a consequence of her short life. De Cleyre was especially influenced by Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft and Clarence Darrow. After the hanging of the Haymarket protesters in 1887, she became an anarchist. “Till then I believed in the essential justice of the American law of trial by jury,” she wrote in an autobiographical essay, “After that I never could.” She was known as an excellent speaker and writer – in the opinion of biographer Paul Avrich, she was “a greater literary talent than any other American anarchist” – and as a tireless advocate for the anarchist cause, whose “religious zeal,” according to Goldman, “stamped everything she did.” (Wikipedia)     [chương_files]  

01/06/2024
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Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens

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Chapter: 32 | Listen: 6

“These papers were originally published as prefaces to the separate books of Dickens in one of the most extensive of those cheap libraries of the classics which are one of the real improvements of recent times. Thus they were harmless, being diluted by, or rather drowned in Dickens. My scrap of theory was a mere dry biscuit to be taken with the grand tawny port of great English comedy; and by most people it was not taken at all–like the biscuit. Nevertheless the essays were not in intention so aimless as they appear in fact. I had a general notion of what needed saying about Dickens to the new generation, though probably I did not say it. I will make another attempt to do so in this prologue, and, possibly fail again.” (Summary by G. K. Chesterton)     [chương_files]  

01/06/2024
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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 010

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Chapter: 15 | Listen: 11

A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history, politics, philosophy, nature and religion.     [chương_files]  

01/06/2024
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Miscellany of Men

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Chapter: 13 | Listen: 2

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was among the world’s most prolific writers who incorporated relentless logic, wonderful humor, and a clear view of truth into an amazing tool for exposing the foolishness of the policies of the world around him through the device of paradox. It is always great fun, and certainly always a learning experience to read Chesterton. A Miscellany of Men may be his hardest work to define, as it deals with a huge array of issues, using “personal types” as illustration. It would only be bewildering, if there was not these common threads: First that these types still exist, and the same faulty reasoning applies to issues of our day, and second, that underlying all of this is a firm and reasoned defense of democracy in a sense very close to that of the American Founding Fathers. (Summary by Ray Clare)     [chương_files]  

01/06/2024
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Defendant

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Chapter: 18 | Listen: 5

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 humor he “defends” a series of seeming harmless things that need no defense, and in so doing he exposes many of the broken assumptions and dogmatic notions of secular humanism and other trends of his age and of ours. (Summary by Ray Clare)     [chương_files]  

01/06/2024
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National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 – 03. March 1896

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Chapter: 8 | Listen: 1

The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the March Number. It includes the following articles, along with a few miscellaneous notes: * The So-Called Jeannette Relics, by Professor William H. Dall * Nansen’s Polar Expedition, by General A. W. Greely * The Submarine Cables of the World, by Gustave Herrle * Peter Cooper and Submarine Telegraphy * The Russo-American Telegraph Project of 1864-67, by Professor William H. Dall * Survey and Subdivision of Indian Territory, by Henry Gannett * Free Burghs in the United States, by James H. Blodgett     [chương_files]  

31/05/2024
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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 003

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Chapter: 10 | Listen: 6

A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history, politics science and religion. Included in this collection are Martin Luther’s “Ninety-five Theses,” Jefferson Davis’ speech before the United States Senate in 1861 “On Withdrawing from the Union,” William E. Gladstone’s address delivered in the House of Commons in 1893 on “Irish Home Rule” and Wendell Phillips speech in 1837 in Fanuiel Hall in Boston regarding “The Murder of Lovejoy.” You will also find here an epistolary essay by François Marie Arouet de Voltaire “On Lord Bacon,” a letter from Samuel Clemens commenting on the inclusion of Jesus in the list of “One Hundred Greatest Men,” “On Applauding Preachers” by Saint John Chrysostom, an essay by Alice Meynell on “Solitude,” and the entry on Captain Edward Teach (aka Blackbeard) from “The Pirates Who’s Who” by Philip Gosse. (summary by J. M. Smallheer) The Ninety-Five Theses by Martin Luther, was translated by R. S. Grignon.     [chương_files]