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G. K. Chesterton's Newspaper Columns: The New Witness - 1921

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G. K. Chesterton's Newspaper Columns: The New Witness - 1921

by G. K. Chesterton

English· 09:22:29· 45 chapters
A collection of the newspaper columns/essays written by G.K. Chesterton for "The New Witness", under the heading "At the Sign of the World's End". This project compiles the articles from 1921 (Summary by Maria Therese)
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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    The Storm-Glass of Superstition

    12:41
  2. Chapter 2

    The Beard of the Bolshevist

    10:26
  3. Chapter 3

    Street Cries and Arcady

    11:07
  4. Chapter 4

    The Statue and the Irishman

    13:45
  5. Chapter 5

    A Defence of Interviewers

    11:07
  6. Chapter 6

    A World of Wood

    11:40
  7. Chapter 7

    A Caution About Coats and Canes

    11:30
  8. Chapter 8

    The March to Main Street

    11:40
  9. Chapter 9

    The Plain Man and the Pipe of Peace

    12:01
  10. Chapter 10

    On Dollars and Day-Dreams

    12:43
  11. Chapter 11

    On Making Friends for England

    13:37
  12. Chapter 12

    Diplomacy and Dixie

    11:42
  13. Chapter 13

    The Case for the Englishman

    14:00
  14. Chapter 14

    On An American Critic

    14:00
  15. Chapter 15

    Penelope and the Servile State

    11:39
  16. Chapter 16

    The Republican in the Ruins

    12:55
  17. Chapter 17

    The Philosophy of Baby Worship

    11:06
  18. Chapter 18

    The Topsy-Turvey Reformer

    12:12
  19. Chapter 19

    The Unpractical Patriot

    16:49
  20. Chapter 20

    The Religion of Bernard Shaw

    14:42
  21. Chapter 21

    The Soul in Every Legend

    12:30
  22. Chapter 22

    The Extraordinary American

    14:22
  23. Chapter 23

    The American King and the English President

    14:07
  24. Chapter 24

    A Doubt About the Interview

    12:44
  25. Chapter 25

    Is America Young?

    14:09
  26. Chapter 26

    A Sermon Under Six Heads

    13:56
  27. Chapter 27

    Two Bolshevists and a Pessimist

    13:44
  28. Chapter 28

    King Arthur at the Court of the Yankees

    11:25
  29. Chapter 29

    The Higher Snobbishness

    12:01
  30. Chapter 30

    Mr. R.J. Campbell and the Cabman

    11:50
  31. Chapter 31

    Leaving Out the Story

    12:31
  32. Chapter 32

    The Spade and the Spinning Wheel

    11:43
  33. Chapter 33

    Prohibition and Property

    11:33
  34. Chapter 34

    Feminism and Freemasonry

    13:39
  35. Chapter 35

    Is the Parent a Paradox?

    14:16
  36. Chapter 36

    The Madhouse and the Nursery

    11:22
  37. Chapter 37

    The Sea Monster and the Mob

    10:18
  38. Chapter 38

    Stephen Graham and His Servile State

    10:18
  39. Chapter 39

    Murder and the Might-Have-Been

    12:53
  40. Chapter 40

    Concerning a Strange City

    13:48
  41. Chapter 41

    The Orangeman and the Englishman

    11:18
  42. Chapter 42

    The Ugliness of Utopia

    12:08
  43. Chapter 43

    Man Versus Mankind

    10:53
  44. Chapter 44

    The Escape From Equality

    10:33
  45. Chapter 45

    Carols and Common Sense

    13:06