Tremendous Trifles - Brossura

Chesterton, G. K.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0486454754 ISBN 13: 9780486454757

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 2007

Riassunto

"The world will never starve for want of wonders, but only for want of wonder."
G. K. Chesterton
The thirty-nine short essays that make up Chesterton's delightful book are the result of "sitting still and letting marvels and adventures settle on him like flies." Actually, the author does move around quite a bitto Germany, France, and on foot in England when he tires of waiting for a train. Everywhere he goes, Chesterton looks at ordinary things and asks us to see how extraordinary they are: the contents of his pockets, the items in a railway station, pedestrians in the street. What appear to be trifles are actually tremendous, and he uses them as a springboard to expound on Christianity, the nuclear family, democracy, and the like with supreme clarity and wit.
The essays gathered here are a testament to G. K. Chesterton's faithnot his faith in religion or a higher power, but in the ability to discover something wonderful in the objects, the experiences, and the people that cross our paths every single day. With his unique brand of humor and insight, he demonstrates how the commonplace adds enormous value to the landscape of daily life. Full of both good sense and nonsense, Chesterton's commentariesfirst published nearly a century agoremain fresh today.

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Contenuti:

1. Tremendous Trifles 2. A Piece of Chalk 3. The Secret of a Train 4. The Perfect Game 5. The Extraordinary Cabman 6. An Accident 7. The Advantages of Having One Leg 8. The End of the World 9. In the Place de la Bastille 10. On Lying in Bed 11. The Twelve Men 12. The Wind and the Trees 13. The Dickensian 14. In Topsy-Turvy Land 15. What I Found in My Pocket 16. The Dragon's Grandmother 17. The Red Angel 18. The Tower 19. How I Met the President 20. The Giant 21. A Great Man 22. The Orthodox Barber 23. The Toy Theatre 24. A Tragedy of Twopence 25. A Cab Ride Across Country 26. The Two Noises 27. Some Policemen and a Moral 28. The Lion 29. Humanity: an Interlude 30. The Little Birds Who Won't Sing 31. The Riddle of the Ivy 32. The Travellers in State 33. The Prehistoric Railway Station 34. The Diabolist 35. A Glimpse of My Country 36. A Somewhat Improbable Story 37. The Shop of Ghosts 38. The Ballade of a Strange Town 39. The Mystery of a Pageant

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Chesterton's 39 short essays are the result, he says, of "sitting still and letting marvels and adventures settle on him like flies." Actually, he does move around - Germany, France, and on foot in England when he tires of waiting for a train. Full of both good sense and nonsense, his commentaries remain an absolute delight.

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• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0486454754
• ISBN 13: 9780486454757
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 216