Tremendous Trifles
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About This Book
Chesterton has been called the Prince of Paradox. His works include journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography, fantasy and detective stories. Chesterton has great fun satirizing the Victorian sleuths such as Sherlock Holmes . These 39 tales will delight the reader. Chesterton said that these stories just came to him like sitting still and letting them light on him like flies. Some of these tales are just for fun while other are filled with good common sense.Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English literary and social critic, historian, playwright, poet, Catholic theologian, debater,...
Chapters (42)
- TREMENDOUS TRIFLES
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- I. Tremendous Trifles
- II. A Piece of Chalk
- III. The Secret of a Train
- IV. The Perfect Game
- V. The Extraordinary Cabman
- VI. An Accident
- VII. The Advantages of Having One Leg
- VIII. The End of the World
- IX. In the Place de La Bastille
- X. On Lying in Bed
- XI. The Twelve Men
- XII. The Wind and the Trees
- XIII. The Dickensian
- XIV. In Topsy-Turvy Land
- XV. What I Found in My Pocket
- XVI. The Dragon’s Grandmother
- XVII. The Red Angel
- XVIII. The Tower
- XIX. How I Met the President
- XX. The Giant
- XXI. A Great Man
- XXII. The Orthodox Barber
- XXIII. The Toy Theatre
- XXIV. A Tragedy of Twopence
- XXV. A Cab Ride Across Country
- XXVI. The Two Noises
- XXVII. Some Policemen and a Moral
- XXVIII. The Lion
- XXIX. Humanity: an Interlude
- XXX. The Little Birds Who Won’t Sing
- XXXI. The Riddle of the Ivy
- XXXII. The Travellers in State
- XXXIII. The Prehistoric Railway Station
- XXXIV. The Diabolist
- XXXV. A Glimpse of My Country
- XXXVI. A Somewhat Improbable Story
- XXXVII. The Shop Of Ghosts
- XXXVIII. The Ballade of a Strange Town
- XXXIX. The Mystery of a Pageant
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