All Things Considered

ISBN-13: 9781537019413 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 142 str.

G. K. Chesterton

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The book All Things Considered is a highly entertaining and insightful compilation of musings and essays on a wide variety of topics for London Daily News and covers a wide variety of topics.
Some of the topics in -All Things Considered- are light-hearted (for example, when he talks about canvassing for votes), while others are a bit more serious (basically when he starts talking about religion or science). But even when he's serious, he's not ponderous. Then again, he does say in the second paragraph of the book:
-Their the essays] chief vice is that so many of them are very serious; because I had no time to make them flippant. It is so easy to be solemn; it is hard to be frivolous.-
His brilliance leaves many breathless with awe, but most of the time he leaves them feeling like an intellectual midget
He seems to connect the most unconnectable things together, throw them into the mix, and create something wonderfully insightful. And he maintains a stylish humor while doing so.
G.K. Chesterton was an astute observer of human nature, a genuine eccentric and wit as well as a lovely prose stylist, so there are plenty of thought-provoking snippets to be gleaned throughout the collection, as well deeper offerings on human dignity, wealth and privilege, humour, democracy, identity, nationalism and - of course - religion and the Catholic faith.
Funny, witty, absolutely insightful. There's even a chapter on fairy-tales.
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Topics from the Book:
THE CASE FOR THE EPHEMERAL
COCKNEYS AND THEIR JOKES
THE FALLACY OF SUCCESS
ON RUNNING AFTER ONE'S HAT
THE VOTE AND THE HOUSE
CONCEIT AND CARICATURE
PATRIOTISM AND SPORT.
AN ESSAY ON TWO CITIES.
FRENCH AND ENGLISH
THE ZOLA CONTROVERSY
OXFORD FROM WITHOUT
WOMAN
THE MODERN MARTYR
ON POLITICAL SECRECY
THOUGHTS AROUND KOEPENICK
THE BOY
ON THE CRYPTIC AND THE ELLIPTIC
THE WORSHIP OF THE WEALTHY
THE METHUSELAHITE
THE ERROR OF IMPARTIALITY
FAIRY TALES
TOM JONES AND MORALITY
THE MAID OF ORLEANS
A DEAD POET
CHRISTMAS
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