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A Miscellany of Men
This work explores various aspects of human nature, society, and politics through Chesterton's characteristic humor and incisive commentary.
"A Miscellany of Men" by G. K. Chesterton is a collection of essays. This work explores various aspects of human nature, society, and politics through Chesterton's characteristic humor and incisive commentary.
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There is something creepy in the flat Eastern Counties; a brush of the white feather. There is a stillness, which is rather of the mind than of the bodily senses. Rapid changes and sudden revelations of scenery, even when they are soundless, have something in them analogous to a movement of music, to a crash or a cry. Mountain hamlets spring out on us with a shout like mountain brigands. Comfortable valleys accept us with open arms and warm words, like comfortable innkeepers. But travelling in the great level lands has a curiously still and lonely quality; lonely even when there are plenty of people on the road and in the market-place. One's voice seems to break an almost elvish silence, and something unreasonably weird in the phrase of the nursery tales, “And he went a little farther and came to another place,” comes back into the mind.
Contents
- 01The Suffragist
- 02The Poet and the Cheese
- 03The Thing
- 04The Man Who Thinks Backwards
- 05The Nameless Man
- 06The Gardener and the Guinea
- 07The Voter and the Two Voices
- 08The Mad Official
- 09The Enchanted Man
- 10The Sun Worshipper
- 11The Wrong Incendiary
- 12The Free Man
- 13The Hypothetical Householder
- 14The Priest of Spring
- 15The Real Journalist
- 16The Sentimental Scot
- 17The Sectarian of Society
- 18The Fool
- 19The Conscript and the Crisis
- 20The Miser and His Friends
- 21The Mystagogue
- 22The Red Reactionary
- 23The Separatist and Sacred Things
- 24The Mummer
- 25The Aristocratic 'Arry
- 26The New Theologian
- 27The Romantic in the Rain
- 28The False Photographer
- 29The Sultan
- 30The Architect of Spears
- 31The Man on Top
- 32The Other Kind of Man
- 33The Mediæval Villain
- 34The Divine Detective
- 35The Elf of Japan
- 36The Chartered Libertine
- 37The Contented Man
- 38The Angry Author: His Farewell
About this edition
- Author
- G. K. Chesterton
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 154 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers