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The Flying Inn reconsidered.
WHEN I WAS A CHILD going through my late father's library, my maternal grandfather pointed out an old copy of G.K. Chesterton's The Flying Inn, published in 1914, and said: "That's a good story!" I wish now that Grandfather had lived long enough for me to talk to him about many things. I am not sure why he, mayor, Member of Parliament, knight, and general pillar of the community, with no sign I could detect of even my father's bohemian streak, thought this tale of rum-disbursing rapscallions in flight from the law was a good story, but I took him at his word and when I read it found he was right.
It was condemned to many years of neglect, presumably because of ...
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- Magazine article from: New Criterion Gardner, Martin March 1, 2006 700+ words
...the Cross, The Flying Inn is a comic fantasy...infidel nations, The Flying Inn has an eerie relevance...He has convinced Lord Ivywood that the Muslim...distant cousin of Lord Ivywood. She lives as...the cart into a "flying inn" which they take...
- Giving three cheers for Plato.(Confessions of a Radical Traditionalist)(Book...
- Magazine article from: Spectator Kavanagh, P.J. January 14, 2006 700+ words
...unfashionable points. He mentions G. K. Chesterton's novel The Flying Inn, which is about a Muslim-controlled England in which pubs have been abolished--thus the Flying Inn, flown before the police can catch it. About this he says: Chesterton...
- The everlasting man.(LIFE & LETTERS)(G. K. Chesterton)
- Magazine article from: Spectator Massie, Allan November 1, 2008 700+ words
...modernity that makes what might seem his most timely book--The Flying Inn--read very oddly. Most Spectator readers will doubtless...does not at all accord with our experience of it. So The Flying Inn ought to be out-of-date. And yet Chesterton won't go...
- 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...
- G.K. Chesterton. (Recommended Resources).(Bibliography)
- Magazine article from: Christian History August 1, 2002 700+ words
...proceed from here. The fiction track includes Father Brown stories and the novels Manalive, The Napoleon of Notting Hill, The Flying Inn, and The Return of Don Quixote. Brave souls who wish to tackle The Man Who Was Thursday may want to check out The Annotated...
- Hello! Dr Mahathir's dream?
- Magazine article from: Business Times (Malaysia) June 26, 2000 700+ words
...the DAP, to do anything. Even now, the DAP cannot dictate anything to Pas. GK Chesterton published a novel called The Flying Inn at the beginning of the Century in which, according to Anthony Burgess, the famous author who used to teach me
- 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...
- The un-apologist: oblivious to convention, Chesterton launched a bold campaign...
- Magazine article from: Christian History Montgomery, John Warwick August 1, 2002 700+ words
...saw the beauties and pleasures of this world as gifts of God. He consistently criticized pietistic legalism and even devoted an entire novel to the absurdities of Prohibition. In The Flying Inn, Chesterton supposes that England elects a Mu
Source: HighBeam Research, The Flying Inn reconsidered.