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Fancies Versus Fads



Description Fancies Versus Fads


A Collection of 31 essays from G.K. Chesterton.

“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 range over very variegated topics and in many cases were made at very different times. They 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.” (From the Introduction)

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IntroductionThe Romance of RhymeHamlet and the Psycho-AnalystThe Meaning of Mock TurkeyShakespeare and the Legal LadyOn Being an Old BeanThe Fear of the FilmWings and the HousemaidThe Slavery of Free VerseProhibition and the PressThe Mercy of Mr. Arnold BennettA Defense of Dramatic UnitiesThe Boredom of ButterfliesThe Terror of a ToyFalse Theory and the TheatreThe Secret Society of MankindThe Sentimentalism of DivorceStreet Cars and Stretching the LawWhy Reformers Go WrongThe Innocence of the CriminalThe Prudery of the FeministsHow Mad Laws are MadeThe Pagoda of ProgressThe Myth of the 'Mayflower'Much Too Modern HistoryThe Evolution of SlavesIs Darwin Dead?Turning Inside OutStrikes and the Spirit of WonderA Note on Old NonsenseMilton and Merry England

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