On Lying in Bed and Other EssaysBayeux Arts, 2000 - 519 oldal Alberto Manguel has edited for Bayeux Arts this fascinating collection of G.K. Chesterton's essays. Alberto Manguel is the author of "A Short History of Reading" and co-author of "The Dictionary of Imaginary Places". He has edited several collections, among them "Black Water"; "The Anthology of Fantastic Literature" and "The Gates of Paradise: the Anthology of Erotic Short Fiction". He has also authored, for Bayeux Arts, "Kipling: A Brief Biography". |
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Tartalomjegyzék
On Chesterton by Alberto Manguel | 7 |
The Essay | 17 |
THE WALKING PARAdox | 19 |
On Running After Ones Hat | 20 |
A Piece of Chalk | 24 |
The Advantages of Having One Leg | 29 |
On Lying in Bed | 33 |
A Cab Ride Across the Country | 37 |
Pickwick Papers | 212 |
The Fairy Pickwick | 222 |
Tennyson | 229 |
Lewis Carroll | 233 |
Rudyard Kipling | 241 |
Oscar Wilde | 248 |
Shaw the Philosopher | 252 |
Sherlock Holmes | 268 |
The Walking Paradox | 42 |
A Defence of Bores | 46 |
The Love of Lead | 51 |
Paints in a PaintBox | 55 |
The Mirror | 60 |
On Being Moved | 63 |
Lunacy and Letters | 66 |
The Maniac | 71 |
ON WRITING Badly | 75 |
A Defence of Penny Dreadfuls | 76 |
On Writing Badly | 82 |
About Bad Comparisons | 86 |
About Beliefs | 91 |
About Mad Metaphors | 95 |
On Bad Poetry | 100 |
Good Stories Spoilt By Great Authors | 105 |
On Fictional Conventions | 109 |
The Romance of Rhyme | 113 |
The Little Birds Who Wont Sing | 128 |
Humour | 133 |
The Toy Theatre | 141 |
False Theory and the Theatre | 146 |
A Defence of Dramatic Unities | 151 |
Watts Allegorical Paintings | 155 |
George Frederick Watts | 165 |
Poor Old Shakespeare | 167 |
Tricks of Memory | 168 |
The Book of Job | 172 |
Chaucer and the Renaissance | 181 |
Poor Old Shakespeare | 186 |
A Shakespeare Portrait | 188 |
A Midsummer Nights Dream | 193 |
The Real Dr Johnson | 204 |
William Blake and Inspiration | 208 |
How To Write A Detective Story | 275 |
A Defence of Detective Stories | 281 |
About Shockers | 285 |
A DEFENCE OF NONSENSE | 293 |
A Defence of Nonsense | 294 |
Fairy Tales | 299 |
A Fairy Tale | 303 |
The Dragons Grandmother | 307 |
The Red Angel | 312 |
The Romantic in the Rain | 316 |
The Age of Legends | 319 |
The Soul in Every Legend | 327 |
The Philosophy of Islands | 332 |
A Defence of Farce | 338 |
MONSTERS AND THE Middle AGES | 343 |
The Province of Britain | 344 |
St Francis and Nature | 353 |
The Paradox of Humility | 360 |
A Defence of Humility | 364 |
THE AMERICAN ideal | 369 |
A Meditation in Broadway | 408 |
THE DEFENDANT | 419 |
72 | 429 |
74 | 437 |
76 | 447 |
78 | 457 |
80 | 466 |
82 | 474 |
84 | 482 |
86 | 490 |
88 | 499 |
90 | 507 |
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