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CHESTERTON, G. K.
Selected essays / G. K. Chesterton ; int. John Guest.- London ; Glasgow : Collins, 1953.- 287 p. ; 19 cm. - (Collins Classics ; 451)

FICÇÃO

G. K. Chesterton. Introduction. Cockneys and their jokes. The fallacy of success. On running after one's hat. French and english. The boy. Phonetic spelling. Wine when it is red. A piece of chalk. The secret of a train. The perfect game. The extraordinary cabman. An accident. The advantages of having one leg. On lying in be. The twelve men. The wind and the trees. A cab ride across country. The little birds who won't sing. The travellers in state. The diabolost. The angry street: a bad dream. The ballade of a strange town. The appetite of earth. The red town. A criminal head. How i found the superman. Th garden of the sea. The gardener and the guinea. The mad official. The hypothetical householder. The priest of spring. The mystagogue. The romantic in the rain. The archictet of spears. Tennyson. On pigs as pets. The duty of the historian. The fear of the film. Wings and the housemaid. The slavery of free verse. False theory and the theatre. The sentimentalism of divorce. The pagoda of progress. On electric houses. On the pillory. On sentiment. On leisure. On pleasure-seeking. On domestic servants. On evil euphemisms. On a humiliating heresy. On liberties and lotteries. On business education. On logic and lunacy. On sight seeing. On the teutonic theory. On literacy cliques. On the simplicity of Asia. On fictional conventions. On the prison of jazz. On books for pessimists. On the touchy realist. On facing facts. About Meredith. Bibliography.