G.K. Chesterton: Daylight and Nightmare: Uncollected Stories and Fables

Title

en_US G.K. Chesterton: Daylight and Nightmare: Uncollected Stories and Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US First edition

en_US Selected and Arranged by Marie Smith

Creator

en_US Chesterton, G.K.

Date

2016-01-25T19:29:15Z

en_US 1999-06

en_US 1986

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:29:15Z

Date Issued

en_US 1986

Abstract

en_US I have struggled in reading this book to find what Chesterton might have to offer the fable researcher. Perhaps Ms. Smith and even Chesterton himself are not too clear on what a fable is. Consider these two sentences from Smith's Foreword: The shorter fables from this last period are, however, interspersed throughout. All the stories are fantasies of one sort of another (5). Can a fable be a fantasy? I can report that I find many excellent and thought-provoking stories here, particularly The Two Taverns (32); The Three Dogs (48); The Curious Englishman (50); The Tree of Pride (58); Chivalry Begins at Home (76); The Second Miracle (99); Concerning Grocers as Gods (108); On Secular Education (122); and A Fish Story (124). In the end, they are fantasies, and I do not think that they are fables in anything like the traditional sense associated with Aesop. But anything from Chesterton's imagination is lively!

Identifier

en_US 396088899

en_US 5185 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80756

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Dodd Mead & Company,

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PR4453.C4 D3 1986

en_US G.K. Chesterton

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole