All Things Considered (Great Classics)

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. Scroll Up and Get Your Copy! 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 Oz Books: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz https://www.createspace.com/6426287 TIK-TOK of OZ https://www.createspace.com/6353841 Ozma of Oz https://www.createspace.com/6356346 Glinda of OZ https://www.createspace.com/6461890 The Scarecrow of OZ https://www.createspace.com/6461981 The Marvelous Land of Oz https://www.createspace.com/6462832 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz https://www.createspace.com/6464450 The Road to Oz by https://www.createspace.com/6464521 The Emerald City of Oz https://www.createspace.com/6464602 The Patchwork Girl of Oz https://www.createspace.com/6464682 The Lost Princess of Oz https://www.createspace.com/6465342 The Tin Woodman of Oz https://www.createspace.com/6466582 Rinkitink in Oz https://www.createspace.com/6464764 The Magic of Oz https://www.createspace.com/6466620 Grimm's Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimmhttps://www.createspace.com/6440051 Sky Island by L. Frank Baumhttps://www.createspace.com/6446563 The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnetthttps://www.createspace.com/6455917

Author: G. K. Chesterton

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Aug 10, 2016

Number of Pages: 142 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1537019414

ISBN-13: 9781537019413