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Naughts & crescents.(Reconsiderations)(The Flying Inn)(Critical essay)
Like Gilbert Chesterton's The Ball and the Cross, The Flying Inn is a comic fantasy almost totally forgotten today, even by Chestertonians. In view of the current explosion of Islamic fundamentalism, and the rise of terrorism against infidel nations, The Flying Inn has an eerie relevance to the Iraq war that keeps the novel from flying into complete obscurity.
Lord Phillip Ivywood, the novel's main character, is England's handsome, golden-voiced Prime Minister. He has come under the influence of a Turkish fanatic, Misyara Ammon, a large-nosed, black-bearded Muslim popularly known as the Prophet of the Moon. He has convinced Lord Ivywood that the Muslim faith is ...
- The Flying Inn reconsidered.
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Colebatch, Hal G.P. November 1, 2006 700+ words
...British politician, Lord Ivywood, by a piece of legal...absurd rowdies," Lord Ivywood calls them) travel...other ways, though not Lord Ivywood, who is a genuine fanatic...crematoria. In The Flying Inn smart art circles adopt...
- Orthodoxy at a hundred.(Critical essay)
- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life Wood, Ralph C. November 1, 2008 700+ words
...clutch of small novels and short-story collections: The Man Who Was Thursday, The Club of Queer Trades, Manalive, The Flying Inn, The Napoleon of Notting Hill. And there are, of course, the perennially popular Father Brown stories. Yet except for...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times August 24, 1997 700+ words
...be advantegeous to women and therefore an appropriate goal for feminists. G.K. Chesterton is ahead of them. In "The Flying Inn," (1914) an Islamic speaker addressing an English audience says: "What is the common objection our worthy enemies make...
- John D. Coates. G.K. Chesterton as Controversialist, Essayist, Novelist, and...
- Magazine article from: Utopian Studies Lewis, Arthur O. January 1, 2003 700+ words
...79), such as The Napoleon of Notting Hill (the nature of patriotism), The Man Who was Thursday (nihilism), The Flying Inn (the threat to moral choice). Most of the chapter deals with The Ball and the Cross (1910), which is concerned with...
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