The Flying Inn - Couverture souple

Chesterton, G. K.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 048641910X ISBN 13 : 9780486419107

Editeur : Dover Publications Inc., 2001

Synopsis

Armed with a donkey cart filled with rum, cheese and a tavern signpost, pub owner Humphrey Hump and a companion take to the road in this rollicking, madcap adventure, extending good cheer to a cast of memorable characters. A hilarious, satirical romp in which Chesterton inveighs against Prohibition, vegetarianism, theosophy, and other oppressive forms of modernity.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

THE FLYING INN CHAPTER I A SERMON ON INNS
THE sea was a pale elfin green and the afternoon had already felt the fairy touch of evening, as a young woman with dark hair, dressed in a crinkly copper-coloured sort of dress of the artistic order, was walking rather listlessly along the parade of Pebblewick-on-Sea, trailing a parasol and looking out upon the sea's horizon. She had a reason for looking instinctively out at the sea-line: a reason that many young women have had in the history of the world. But there was no sail in sight. On the beach below the parade were a succession of small crowds surrounding the usual orators of the seaside; whether niggers or Socialists, whether clowns or clergymen. Here would stand a man doing something or other with paper boxes; and the holiday-makers would watch him for hours in the hope of some time knowing what it was he was doing with them. Next to him would be a man in a top-hat with a very big Bible and a very small wife, who stood silently beside him, while he fought with his clenched fist against the heresy of Milnian Sublapsarianism so wide-spread in fashionable watering-places.

Table of Contents

I. A SERMON ON INNS
II. THE END OF OLIVE ISLAND
III. THE SIGN OF "THE OLD SHIP"
IV. THE INN FINDS WINGS
V. THE ASTONISHMENT OF THE AGENT
VI. THE HOLE IN HEAVEN
VII. THE SOCIETY OF SIMPLE SOULS
VIII. VOX POPULI VOX DEI
IX. THE HIGHER CRITICISM AND MR. HIBBS
X. THE CHARACTER OF QUOODLE
XI. VEGETARIANISM IN THE DRAWING-ROOM
XII. VEGETARIANISM IN THE FOREST
XIII. THE BATTLE OF THE TUNNEL
XIV. THE CREATURE THAT MAN FORGETS
XV. THE SONGS OF THE CAR CLUB
XVI. THE SEVEN MOODS OF DORIAN
XVII. THE POET IN PARLIAMENT
XVIII. THE REPUBLIC OF PEACEWAYS
XIX. THE HOSPITALITY OF THE CAPTAIN
XX. T

Présentation de l'éditeur

Extravagant, satirical, amusing to those who can read in the spirit in which it is written, and these will be fewer than the readers who enjoyed Manalive. The characters are caricatures who so approach possible types that they are convincing in their very impossibility. They are the means of attacking most of the foibles of the day.Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to publications@publicdomain.org.uk This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via DMCA@publicdomain.org.uk

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dover Publications Inc.
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 048641910X
• ISBN 13: 9780486419107
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Soc. Agr. La Raia Ss; http://www.la-raia.it; ; Strada Monterotondo, 79; Novi Ligure; 15067; Italie