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The Flying Inn

G. K. Chesterton

Set in a future England dominated by Progressive Islam and temperance laws, the story follows Humphrey Pump and Captain Patrick Dalroy as they travel the countryside with a barrel of rum, exploiting legal loopholes to evade prohibition.

"The Flying Inn" by G. K. Chesterton is a novel. Set in a future England dominated by Progressive Islam and temperance laws, the story follows Humphrey Pump and Captain Patrick Dalroy as they travel the countryside with a barrel of rum, exploiting legal loopholes to evade prohibition.

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The sea was a pale elfin green and the afternoon had already felt the fairy touch of evening as a young woman with dark hair, dressed in a crinkly copper-coloured sort of dress of the artistic order, was walking rather listlessly along the parade of Pebblewick-on-Sea, trailing a parasol and looking out upon the sea’s horizon. She had a reason for looking instinctively out at the sea-line; a reason that many young women have had in the history of the world. But there was no sail in sight.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I a Sermon on Inns
  2. 02Chapter II the End of Olive Island
  3. 03Chapter III the Sign of “the Old Ship”
  4. 04Chapter IV the Inn Finds Wings
  5. 05Chapter V the Astonishment of the Agent
  6. 06Chapter VI the Hole in Heaven
  7. 07Chapter VII the Society of Simple Souls
  8. 08Chapter VIII Vox Populi Vox Dei
  9. 09Chapter IX the Higher Criticism and Mr. Hibbs
  10. 10Chapter X the Character of Quoodle
  11. 11Chapter XI Vegetarianism in the Drawing-Room
  12. 12Chapter XII Vegetarianism in the Forest
  13. 13Chapter XIII the Battle of the Tunnel
  14. 14Chapter XIV the Creature That Man Forgets
  15. 15Chapter XV the Songs of the Car Club
  16. 16Chapter XVI the Seven Moods of Dorian
  17. 17Chapter XVII the Poet in Parliament
  18. 18Chapter XVIII the Republic of Peaceways
  19. 19Chapter XIX the Hospitality of the Captain
  20. 20Chapter XX the Turk and the Futurists
  21. 21Chapter XXI the Road to Roundabout
  22. 22Chapter XXII the Chemistry of Mr. Crooke
  23. 23Chapter XXIII the March on Ivywood
  24. 24Chapter XXIV the Enigmas of Lady Joan
  25. 25Chapter XXV the Finding of the Superman

About this edition

Author
G. K. Chesterton
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
266 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers