Format:
Book
Author:
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936.
Title:
Short stories, fairy tales, mystery stories, illustrations / researched, compiled and introduced by Denis J. Conlon.
Publisher, Date:
San Francisco : Ignatius Press, c1993.
Description:
802 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Series:
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936. Works. 1986 ; v. 14.
Other Author:
Conlon, D. J.
Other Title:
Selections. 1993
Contents:
Pt. 1. A potpourri of tales. Half hours in Hades (1891) -- The wild goose chase (1892) -- The taming of the nightmare (1892) -- The picture of Tuesday (1896) -- Homesick at home (1896) -- A crazy tale (1896) -- Earthquake esquire (pre-1905) -- The shop of ghosts (1906) -- A nightmare (1907) -- A somewhat improbable story (1908) -- The long bow (1908) -- How I found the superman (1909) -- The modern scrooge (1912) -- The coloured lands (1912) -- The sword of wood (1913) -- Father Brown and the Donnington Affair (1914) -- The trees of pride (pre-1919) -- The garden of smoke (1919) -- The conversion of an anarchist (1919) -- England in 1919 (1919) -- The end of the Roman Road (1919) -- The five of swords (1922) -- The tower of treason (1922) -- The dragon at hide-and-seek (1924) -- Concerning grocers as gods (1925) -- A real discovery (1925) -- The paradise of human fishes (1925) -- A fish story (1925) -- Dr. Hyde, Detective, and the white pillars murder (1925) -- The new Christmas (1926) -- The composite tool (The professor and the cook I) (1926) -- The scientific mind (The professor and the cook II) (1927) -- The professor and the cook III -- The end of wisdom (1931) --
The vampire of the village (1936) -- The mask of Midas (1936) -- The man who shot the fox (193?) -- pt. 2. Juvenilia. E.C. Bentley would a-wooing go (early 1890s) -- Basil Howe (early 1890s) -- The Robinsons (c. 1889) -- The white cockade (1891) -- The modern novelist (1892) -- Wine of Cana (early 1890s) -- pt. 3. What might have been (complete and fragmentary tales from the Notebooks) -- Flickerflash (c. 1888) -- Queen of the evening star (1889-1890) -- The bells of St. Cuthbert (c. 1890) -- Prince Wild-Fire (early 1890s) -- The black crow (1888-1889) -- The maiden of Windsor (c. 1890) -- Dumb show (c. 1890) -- In 1661 (c. 1889) -- Traveller's tale (c. 1890) -- Why the moon was made (mid-1890s) -- Consistency (mid-1890s) -- Twilight (early 1890s) -- A fragment (early 1890s) -- Apotheosis (c. 1896) -- Wreckage (early 1890s) -- My uncle the professor (mid-1890s) -- The moderate country (mid-1890s) -- Le jongleur de Dieu (mid-1890s) -- Child Street (mid-1890s) -- The human club (mid-1890s) -- The lamp-post (mid-1890s) -- The pillar box (mid-1890s) -- The appalling five (early 1890s) -- The appalling five (early 1890s) -- The face of brass (late 1890s -- The man with two legs (late 1890s).
ISBN:
0898704006
9780898704006
0898704014 (pbk.)
9780898704013 (pbk.)
Other Number:
28720406
System Availability:
2
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
1564532
Call Number:
PR4453 .C4 1986 v.14
Course Reserves:
0
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