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The Spice of Life and Other Essays
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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 |
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
| This work is in the public domain in countries where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less. |
