Chesterton – On Lying in Bed
A selection of ninety-one essays, by the author Borges described as ‘one of the foremost writers of our time, not only because of his happy inventiveness, visual imagination and childlike or godlike cheer so evident in all his writing, but also because of his rhetorical skill and the sheer brilliance of his craft…’
First Edition
Calgary, Bayeux Arts, 2000
Softcover, 519 p., illustr.
Essays of Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Selection and introduction by Alberto Manguel
On Chesterton
The Essay
THE WALKING PARADOX
On Running After One’s Hat
A Piece of Chalk
The Advantages of Having One Leg
On Lying in Bed
A Cab Ride Across the Country
The Walking Paradox
A Defence of Bores
The Love of Lead
Paints in a Paint-Box
The Mirror
On Being Moved
Lunacy and Letters
The Maniac
ON WRITING BADLY
A Defence of Penny Dreadfuls
On Writing Badly
About Bad Comparisons
About Beliefs
About Mad Metaphors
On Bad Poetry
Good Stories Spoilt By Great Authors
On Fictional Conventions
The Romance of Rhyme
The Little Birds Who Won’t Sing
Humour
The Toy Theatre
False Theory and the Theatre
A Defence of Dramatic Unities
Watts’ Allegorical Paintings
George Frederick Watts
POOR OLD SHAKESPEARE
Tricks of Memory
The Book of Job
Chaucer and the Renaissance
Poor Old Shakespeare
A Shakespeare Portrait
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Real Dr. Johnson
William Blake and Inspiration
Pickwick Papers
The Fairy Pickwick
Tennyson
Lewis Carroll
Rudyard Kipling
Oscar Wilde
Shaw, the Philosopher
A DEFENCE OF DETECTIVE STORIES
Sherlock Holmes
How To Write A Detective Story
A Defence of Detective Stories
About Shockers
A DEFENCE OF NONSENSE
A Defence of Nonsense
Fairy Tales
A Fairy Tale
The Dragon’s Grandmother
The Red Angel
The Romantic in the Rain
The Age of Legends
The Soul in Every Legend
The Philosophy of Islands
A Defence of Farce
MONSTERS AND THE MIDDLE AGES
The Province of Britain
St. Francis and Nature
The Paradox of Humiiity
A Defence of Humility
Giotto and St. Francis
Monsters and the Middle Ages
The Heraldic Lion
THE AMERICAN IDEAL
The American Ideal
A Meditation in a New York Hotel
A Meditation in Broadway
THE DEFENDANT
The Defendant
On Funeral Customs
The Secret of a Train
The Rights of Ritual
On Household Gods and Goblins
A Defence of Publicity
In Topsy-Turvy Land
On Calling Names – Christian and Otherwise
The Priest of Spring
Tagtug and the Tree of Knowledge
About the Censor
Romantic Love
On the True Artist
Vulgarity
THE WORSHIP OF THE WEALTHY
The Twelve Men
The Worship of the Wealthy
The Miser and His Friends
The Mad Official
On the Child
The Perpetuation of Punishment
If I Had Only One Sermon To Preach
Some Policemen and a Moral
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