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Title
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G.K. Chesterton: Daylight and Nightmare: Uncollected Stories and Fables
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
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First edition
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Selected and Arranged by Marie Smith
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Creator
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Chesterton, G.K.
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:29:15Z
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1999-06
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1986
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:29:15Z
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Date Issued
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1986
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Abstract
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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!
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Identifier
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396088899
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5185 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Dodd Mead & Company,
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New York
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Subject
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PR4453.C4 D3 1986
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G.K. Chesterton
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole