Author: Chesterton, G. K.
Title: Essays of Today and Yesterday
Description: Harrap, London, 1928. First Edition, Hardcover (Paper Covered Boards). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Titles, introductory notes & contents to front; G. K. Chesterton was a master essayist. But reading his essays is not just an exercise in studying a literary form at its finest, it is an encounter with timeless truths that jump off the page as fresh and powerful as the day they were written. The essays in this book are: A Defence of Nonsense (from ‘The Defendant’); Pickwick Papers (from ‘Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens’); Charles II (from ‘Twelve Types’); Thomas Carlyle (from ‘Twelve Types’); A Meditation in Broadway (from ‘What I saw in America’); The Spirit of England (from ‘What I saw in America’) & Two Stones in a Square (from ‘Irish Impressions’) Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 80 pages. Black titles spine & front. light wear to edges of spine. Includes bibliography. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 4782.

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