Tremendous Trifles - Couverture rigide

Chesterton, G. K.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0852080115 ISBN 13 : 9780852080115

Editeur : Darwen Finlayson, 1968

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was a poet, novelist, playwright, literary commentator, editor, biographer, journalist, orator and theologian. He was often dubbed as the "prince of paradox" for his light whimsical style that often addressed serious issues such as politics and religion. The latter was as a member and defender of the Christian faith and the former was shaped by a distrust of concentrated wealth and power. He advocated Distributionism and said that every man should be allowed to own "three acres and a cow." These political views have spread round the world, crediting Chesterton as the father of the "small is beautiful" movement. It is also said to have influenced Gandhi in seeking a genuine nationalism for India rather than imitating the British state. This charming collection of essays shows G. K. Chesterton's wit and humour, while also pointing out the weightiness of all the little moments and events in our lives.

PREFACE

I. Tremendous Trifles

II. A Piece of Chalk

III. The Secret of a Train

IV. The Perfect Game

V. The Extraordinary Cabman

VI. An Accident

VII. The Advantages of Having One Leg

VIII. The End of the World

IX. In the Place de La Bastille

X. On Lying in Bed

XI. The Twelve Men

XII. The Wind and the Trees

XIII. The Dickensian

XIV. In Topsy-Turvy Land

XV. What I Found in My Pocket

XVI. The Dragon's Grandmother

XVII. The Red Angel

XVIII. The Tower

XIX. How I Met the President

XX. The Giant

XXI. A Great Man

XXII. The Orthodox Barber

XXIII. The Toy Theatre

XXIV. A Tragedy of Twopence

XXV. A Cab Ride Across Country

XXVI. The Two Noises

XXVII. Some Policemen and a Moral

XXVIII. The Lion

XXIX. Humanity: an Interlude

XXX. The Little Birds Who Won't Sing

XXXI. The Riddle of the Ivy

XXXII. The Travellers in State

XXXIII. The Prehistoric Railway Station

XXXIV. The Diabolist

XXXV. A Glimpse of My Country

XXXVI. A Somewhat Improbable Story

XXXVII. The Shop Of Ghosts

XXXVIII. The Ballade of a Strange Town

XXXIX. The Mystery of a Pageant

Présentation de l'éditeur :

These fleeting sketches are all republished by kind permission of the Editor of the DAILY NEWS, in which paper they appeared. They amount to no more than a sort of sporadic diary—a diary recording one day in twenty which happened to stick in the fancy—the only kind of diary the author has ever been able to keep. Even that diary he could only keep by keeping it in public, for bread and cheese. But trivial as are the topics they are not utterly without a connecting thread of motive. As the reader's eye strays, with hearty relief, from these pages, it probably alights on something, a bed-post or a lamp-post, a window blind or a wall. It is a thousand to one that the reader is looking at something that he has never seen: that is, never realised. He could not write an essay on such a post or wall: he does not know what the post or wall mean. He could not even write the synopsis of an essay; as "The Bed-Post; Its Significance—Security Essential to Idea of Sleep—Night Felt as Infinite—Need of Monumental Architecture," and so on. He could not sketch in outline his theoretic attitude towards window-blinds, even in the form of a summary.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Darwen Finlayson
• Date d'édition: 1968
• ISBN 10: 0852080115
• ISBN 13: 9780852080115
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 189