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- English
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Alarms and Discursions
About this book
This volume contains a collection of essays written by G. K. Chesterton. These essays were originally published in the 'Daily News', and cover a range of topics ranging from Gargoyles to strolls around Marble Arch. The essays contained herein include: "The Surrender of a Cockney", "The Nightmare", "The Telegraph Poles", "A Drama of Dolls", "The Men and His Newspaper", "The Appetite of Earth", "Simmons and the Social Tie", "Cheese", "The Red Town", "The Furrows", and many more. Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936) was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, theologian, and biographer. Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.
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Table of contents
- ALARMS AND DISCURSIONS
- G. K. Chesterton
- Introductory: On Gargoyles
- The Surrender of a Cockney
- The Nightmare
- The Telegraph Poles
- A Drama of Dolls
- The Man and His Newspaper
- The Appetite of Earth
- Simmons and the Social Tie
- Cheese
- The Red Town
- The Furrows
- The Philosophy of Sight-seeing
- A Criminal Head
- The Wrath of the Roses
- The Futurists
- Dukes
- The Glory of Grey
- The Anarchist
- How I found the Superman
- The New House
- The Wings of Stone
- The Three Kinds of Men
- The Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds
- The Field of Blood
- The Strangeness of Luxury
- The Triumph of the Donkey
- The Wheel
- Five Hundred and Fifty-five
- Ethandune
- The Flat Freak
- The Garden of the Sea
- The Sentimentalist
- The White Horses
- The Long Bow
- The Modern Scrooge
- The High Plains
- The Chorus
- A Romance of the Marshes