Each essay in this 1912 collection begins with a type of person, the suffragist, the poet and the cheese, the man who thinks backwards, the mad official, the free man, and spins from a chance encounter or a newspaper item into argument about liberty, democracy and common sense. Chesterton wanders English villages, rainy churches and London streets, finding paradox wherever he looks.
Short, combative and very funny, these pieces show Chesterton the journalist at full stretch. Download the free EPUB.