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User Review - MrsLee - LibraryThingThe first time I listened to this, it was with a computer generated voice reading it. Not very satisfactory, but enough good to make me buy the paper version. Then I saw that there was an Audible ... Read full review
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User Review - bness2 - LibraryThingChesterton at his philosophical best. He presents his personal arguments for the existence of God and skewers all the puffed up, empty-headed modern philosophers and worthless aristocrats and oligarchs. His wit is as fresh and sharp as Mark Twain's. Read full review
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| Title | Orthodoxy |
| Author | Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
| Publisher | John Lane Company, 1909 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Nov 6, 2008 |
| Length | 287 pages |
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