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The Spice of Life and Other Essays written by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Sentimental Literature

These essays cover a wide range of time and source. The Spice of Life was written only three months before G.K. Chesterton died. None of them has appeared in a collection before. Edited by Dorothy Collins in 1964. - D.E.C.

Contents 1 Part One: Essays on Literature in General 2 Part Two: On Particular Books and Writers 3 Part Three: Thought and Belief 4 Part Four: At Home and Abroad 5 Part Five: The Spice of Life

Part One: Essays on Literature in General

• Sentimental Literature
• How to Write a Detective Story
• Humour
• Fiction as Food
• The Soul in Every Legend

Part Two: On Particular Books and Writers

• The Macbeths
• The Tragedy of King Lear
• The Everlasting Nights
• Aesop's Fables
• Both Sides of the Looking-Glass
• And So To Bed
• As Large as Life in Dickens
• Disputes on Dickens
• Charlotte Bronte as a Romantic

Part Three: Thought and Belief

• Anti-Religious Thought in the Eighteenth Century
• The Camp and the Cathedral
• The Religious Aspect of Westminster Abbey
• The Religious Aim of Education
• The Philosophy of Islands

Part Four: At Home and Abroad

• On Holidays
• The Peasant
• The Lost Railway Station
• Bethlehem and the Great Cities
• The Sacredness of Sites
• Scipio and the Children
• The Real Issue

Part Five: The Spice of Life

• The Comic Constable
• Capone’s Pal
• On Losing One’s Head
• The Spice of Life
• On Fragments

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