Alarms and Discursions: Essays on Small Things Noticed
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Thomas Cole, John Constable and James Arthur O'Connor. Essays on whatever was in front of him: gargoyles, telegraph poles, a drama of dolls, cheese, a criminal head, the gold of Glastonbury, the white horses cut in the chalk downs, the field of Ethandune where Alfred beat the Danes. Chesterton is at his best at this length, turning a small thing over until it shows the whole of his philosophy, and the English landscape pieces are among the finest things he wrote. Sixty plates of English landscape and weather by painters such as Constable and Turner, from Salisbury Cathedral to Dutch Boats in a Gale, answer the essays with their own small, noticed things.
Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Thomas Cole, John Constable and James Arthur O'Connor. Essays on whatever was in front of him: gargoyles, telegraph poles, a drama of dolls, cheese, a criminal head, the gold of Glastonbury, the white horses cut in the chalk downs, the field of...
About the author
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English writer, critic and illustrator born in London. He trained at the Slade School of Art, wrote some eighty books and thousands of newspaper columns, and created the priest-detective Father Brown. His works include Alarms and Discursions, All Things Considered, The Man Who Was Thursday, and Orthodoxy.
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English writer, critic and illustrator born in London. He trained at the Slade School of Art, wrote some eighty books and thousands of newspaper columns, and created the priest-detective Father Brown. His works include Alarms and Discursions, All Things Conside...
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