Alarms And Discursions

Description

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."

First Sentence

IN the frosty grey of winter twilight there comes a crackle and spurt of bluish fire; it is waved for an instant in a sort of weak excitement, and then fizzles out into darkness: and by the blue flash I can just see some little boys lurching by with a limp bolster and a loose flapping mask.

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Other Editions

• Alarms And DiscursionsPaperbackKessinger Publishing2004-04-30
• Alarms and discursionsMethuen & Co.1910-01-01
• Alarms and discursions.Methuen1927-01-01
• Alarms and discursions (Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton)Library BindingClassic Books2000-05-01
• Alarms and DiscursionsClassic Books2001-01-01
• Alarms And DiscursionsHardcoverIndyPublish.com2004-02-18