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Alarms and discursions / by G. K. Chesterton.
Van Pelt Library PR4453.C4 A62 1911
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Essays (English).
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Penn Provenance:
- Bonnell, Henry H. (Henry Houston), 1859-1926 (autograph) (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 301 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dodd, Mead and Company, 1911.
- Contents:
- The fading fireworks
- On gargoyles
- The surrender of a cockney
- The nightmare
- The telegraph poles
- A drama of dolls
- The man and his newspaper
- The appetite of earth
- Simmons and the social tie
- Cheese
- The red town
- The furrows
- The Philosophy of sight-seeing
- A criminal head
- The wrath of the roses
- The gold of Glastonbury
- The futurists
- Dukes
- The glory of grey
- The anarchist
- How I found the superman
- The new house
- The wings of stone
- The three kinds of men
- The stward of the Chiltern Hundreds
- The field of blood
- The strangeness of luxury
- The triumph of the donkey
- The wheel
- Five hundred and fifty-five
- Ethandune
- The flat freak
- The garden of the sea
- The sentimentalist
- The white horses
- The long bow
- The modern Scrooge
- The high plains
- The chorus
- A romance of the marshes.
- Notes:
- With a half-title.
- Thirty-nine essays in miscellaneous subjects.
- First published, 1910.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Henry H. Bonnell.
- OCLC:
- 1839511
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