The return of Don Quixote / G.K. Chesterton. [print]

By:

Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781434101235

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

PR4453.C525.R488 2006
PR4453

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Contents:

2. A dangerous man -- 3. The ladder in the library -- 4. The first trial of John Braintree -- 5. The second trial of John Braintree -- 6. A commission as colourman -- 7. Blondel the Troubadour -- 8. The misadventures of Monkey -- 9. The mystery of a Hansom cab -- 10. When doctors disagree -- 11. The lunacy of the librarian -- 12. The statesman and the summer-house -- 13. The victorian and the arrow -- 14. The return of the Knight-Errant -- 15. The parting of the ways -- 16. The judgment of the King -- 17. The departure of Don Quixote -- 18. The secret of seawood -- 19. The return of Don Quixote.

Review: Michael Herne is a librarian at Seawood Abbey, an estate owned by Lord Seawood. When Lord Seawood?s daughter and some of her friends want to put on a play called Blondel the Troubadour, the librarian is asked to play the part of a medieval king. Herne not only takes his role seriously by thoroughly researching the Middle Ages, when the play is concluded, he refuses to take off the costume. He remains in character, much to the befuddlement and consternation of the other players. With this device, Chesterton achieves a wonderful effect in contrast to the typical snide modern commentary on the past: he creates an opportunity for the past to offer a commentary on the present. Herne looks at his old clothes, that is, the modern clothes he once wore, with embarrassment. The modern world is embarrassing. It takes a previous age to see that. Newly designed and typeset by Waking Lion Press. http://www.amazon.com/The-Return-Don-Quixote-Chesterton/dp/1600968287

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status)	G. Allen Fleece Library LEISURE	Fiction	PZ3.C447.R488 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31923001668975

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1. A hole in the caste -- 2. A dangerous man -- 3. The ladder in the library -- 4. The first trial of John Braintree -- 5. The second trial of John Braintree -- 6. A commission as colourman -- 7. Blondel the Troubadour -- 8. The misadventures of Monkey -- 9. The mystery of a Hansom cab -- 10. When doctors disagree -- 11. The lunacy of the librarian -- 12. The statesman and the summer-house -- 13. The victorian and the arrow -- 14. The return of the Knight-Errant -- 15. The parting of the ways -- 16. The judgment of the King -- 17. The departure of Don Quixote -- 18. The secret of seawood -- 19. The return of Don Quixote.

Michael Herne is a librarian at Seawood Abbey, an estate owned by Lord Seawood. When Lord Seawood?s daughter and some of her friends want to put on a play called Blondel the Troubadour, the librarian is asked to play the part of a medieval king. Herne not only takes his role seriously by thoroughly researching the Middle Ages, when the play is concluded, he refuses to take off the costume. He remains in character, much to the befuddlement and consternation of the other players. With this device, Chesterton achieves a wonderful effect in contrast to the typical snide modern commentary on the past: he creates an opportunity for the past to offer a commentary on the present. Herne looks at his old clothes, that is, the modern clothes he once wore, with embarrassment. The modern world is embarrassing. It takes a previous age to see that. Newly designed and typeset by Waking Lion Press.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Return-Don-Quixote-Chesterton/dp/1600968287

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