Quiet Essays
Tremendous Trifles
G. K. Chesterton
1913
6h 16m
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Chesterton's whole method in one book: pick up the smallest thing to hand - a piece of chalk, a lamp post, a train ticket - and turn it until the universe shows through. Short, exuberant essays that argue the ordinary is the most astonishing thing available.
Inside this audiobook
39 chapters
- 1Preface & Chapter 0111m
- 2Chapter 02 - A Piece of Chalk10m
- 3Chapter 03 - The Secret of a Train9m
- 4Chapter 04 - The Perfect Game9m
- 5Chapter 05 - The Extraordinary Cabman9m
- 6Chapter 06 - An Accident9m
- 7Chapter 07 - The Advantage of Having One Leg10m
- 8Chapter 08 - The End of the World9m
- 9Chapter 09 - In the Place de la Bastille9m
- 10Chapter 10 - On Lying in Bed9m
- 11Chapter 11 - The Twelve Men9m
- 12Chapter 12 - The Wind and the Trees9m
- 13Chapter 13 - The Dickensian8m
- 14Chapter 14 - In Topsy-Turvy Land9m
- 15Chapter 15 - What I Found in My Pocket9m
- 16Chapter 16 - The Dragon's Grandmother10m
- 17Chapter 17 - The Red Angel9m
- 18Chapter 18 - The Tower9m
- 19Chapter 19 - How I Met the President11m
- 20Chapter 20 - The Giant11m
- 21Chapter 21 - The Great Man8m
- 22Chapter 22 - The Orthodox Barber10m
- 23Chapter 23 - The Toy Theatre11m
- 24Chapter 24 - The Tragedy of Twopence9m
- 25Chapter 25 - A Cab Ride Across Country11m
- 26Chapter 26 - The Two Noises8m
- 27Chapter 27 - Some Policemen and a Moral10m
- 28Chap;ter 28 - The Lion8m
- 29Chapter 29 - Humanity: An Interlude12m
- 30Chapter 30 - The Little Birds Who Won't Sing9m
- 31Chapter 31 - The Riddle of the Ivy9m
- 32Chapter 32 - The Travellers in State10m
- 33Chapter 33 - The Prehistoric Railway Station9m
- 34Chapter 34 - The Diabolist11m
- 35Chapter 35 - A Glimpse of My Country10m
- 36Chapter 36 - A Somewhat Improbable Story12m
- 37Chapter 37 - The Shop of Ghosts11m
- 38Chapter 38 - The Ballade of a Strange Town11m
- 39Chapter 39 - The Mystery of a Pageant10m
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