Author: Gilbert Keith ChestertonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 237
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Fancies Versus Fads
Author: Gilbert Keith ChestertonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Fancies Versus Fads
Author: Gilbert Keith ChestertonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Essays
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Fancies Versus Fads (Classic Reprint)
Author: Gilbert Keith ChestertonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332457963
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Excerpt from Fancies Versus Fads There is indeed nothing very extraordinary about these visions, except the extraordinary people who have provoked some of them. They are only a very sketchy sort of sketches of some of the strange things that may be found in the modern world. But however inadequate be the example, it is none the less true that this is the sound principle behind much better examples and that, in those great things as in these small ones, sanity was the condition of satire. It is because Gulliver is a man of moderate stature that he can stray into the land of the giants and the land of the pygmies. It is Swift and not the professors of Laputa who sees the real romance of getting sunbeams out of cucumbers. It would be less than exact to call Swift a sunbeam in the house but if he did not himself get much sunshine out of cucumbers, at least he let daylight into professors. It was not the mad Swift but the sane Swift who made that story so wild. The truth is more self evident in men who were more sane. It is the good sense of Rabelais that makes him seem to grin like a gargoyle and it is in a sense because Dickens was a Philistine that he saw the land so full of strange gods. These idle journalistic jottings have nothing in common with such standards of real literature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Fancies Versus Fads
Author: Gilbert Keith ChestertonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Fancies Versus Fads
Author: G.K. ChestertonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368901699
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Reproduction of the original.
Fancies Versus Fads
Author: G. K. ChestertonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 115
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The whole history of the thing called rhyme can be found between those two things: the simple pleasure of rhyming "diddle" to "fiddle," and the more sophisticated pleasure of rhyming "diddle" to "idyll." Now the fatal mistake about poetry, and more than half of the fatal mistake about humanity, consists in forgetting that we should have the first kind of pleasure as well as the second. It might be said that we should have the first pleasure as the basis of the second; or yet more truly, the first pleasure inside the second. The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
Fancies Versus Fads
Author: G K ChestertonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The whole history of the thing called rhyme can be found between those two things: the simple pleasure of rhyming "diddle" to "fiddle," and the more sophisticated pleasure of rhyming "diddle" to "idyll." Now the fatal mistake about poetry, and more than half of the fatal mistake about humanity, consists in forgetting that we should have the first kind of pleasure as well as the second. It might be said that we should have the first pleasure as the basis of the second; or yet more truly, the first pleasure inside the second. The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
Fancies Versus Fads
Author: Gilbert Keith ChestertonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Fancies, Fashions, and Fads
Author: Ralph NevillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Costume
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Fancies Versus Fads (Modern Edition)
Author: G. K. ChestertonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781697954074
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A unique edition: beautifully formatted, with optimized, large fonts; the complete, unabridged, original 1923 version; annotated, with additional content including information about the book and the Author. This is one of Chesterton's best collections of essays. Among the fads that the Author goes after are Feminism, Free Verse, Prohibition, and Vegetarianism. "I have strung these things together on a slight enough thread; but as the things themselves are slight, it is possible that the thread (and the metaphor) may manage to hang together. These notes (...) concern all sorts of things from lady barristers to cave-men, and from psycho-analysis to free verse. Yet they have this amount of unity in their wandering, that they all imply that it is only a more traditional spirit that is truly able to wander." Our edition is a joy to hold in your hand. Buy it with confidence!