The Flying Inn is a curious novel written by Gilbert K. Chesterton set in a future England where a bizarre form of "Progressive" Islam has triumphed and dominates the political and social life of the country. According to the Distributist Review: "Perhaps prophetical more so than prosaic the Flying Inn is one of those books which should rank among the classics."

This early novel is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. Written by the prolific English critic and author of novels, short stories, essays and verse, G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936), it is a futuristic novel set in 1984 in a London that has changed little from the date in which is was written, 1904. Chesterton s most accurate prediction was that in essence, people would not change, and would continue to regard government with indifference. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We...