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Sidelights on new London and newer York, and other essays / by G. K. Chesterton.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PR4453.C4 S5 1932a
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- x, 261 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dodd, 1932.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. New London: ǂt On bright old things
- On calling names
- On keeping your hair on
- The cowardice of cocktails
- Gates and gate-crashers
- The unpsychological age
- The true Victorian hypocrisy
- Marriage and the modern mind
- pt. 2. Newer York: The American ideal
- A plea for prohibition
- Which is the government?
- A monster: the political dry
- Bernard Shaw and America
- The case against Main Street
- The case for Main Street
- They are all Puritans
- Skyscrapers
- And what about the Quakers?
- Abraham Lincoln in London
- Unknown America
- What of the republic?
- Return to the vision
- pt. 3. Other essays: The spirit of the age in literature
- The middleman in poetry
- Shakespeare and Shaw
- Bernard Shaw and breakages
- The popularity of Dickens
- Magic and fantasy in fiction.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.
- OCLC:
- 2717137
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