Download or read book The Club of Queer Trades written by G. K. Chesterton and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Club of Queer Trades by English author G. K. Chesterton was first published in 1905. It consists of 6 short stories centred around a gentlemen's club. To get entry into this club, the person must make their living by extraordinary and peculiar means. One of Chesterton's earlier works, The Club of Queer Trades was originally serialised in Harper's Weekly. It has also been adapted into a six-part drama by BBC Radio. The stories are: The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown; The Painful Fall of a Great Reputation; The Awful Reason of the Vicar's Visit; The Singular Speculation of the House-Agent; The Noticeable Conduct of Professor Chadd; and, The Eccentric Seclusion of the Old Lady.
Download or read book The Club of Queer Trades 1905 written by G. K. Chesterton and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Club of Queer Trades is a collection of stories by G. K. Chesterton first published in 1905.Each story in the collection is centered on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means (a "queer trade," using the word "queer" in the sense of "peculiar"). To gain admittance one must have invented a unique means of earning a living and the subsequent trade being the main source of income.StoriesThe framing narrative by "Cherub" Swinburne describes his quest for The Club of Queer Trades with his friend Basil Grant, a retired judge, and Rupert Grant, a private detective who is Basil's younger brother. Each of the stories describes their encounter with one of the trades...Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (29 May 1874
Download or read book The Club of Queer Trades 1905 by written by G. K. Chesterton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Club of Queer Trades is a collection of stories by G. K. Chesterton first published in 1905. Each story in the collection is centered on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means (a "queer trade", using the word "queer" in the sense of "peculiar"). To gain admittance one must have invented a unique means of earning a living and the subsequent trade being the main source of income.The framing narrative by "Cherub" Swinburne describes his quest for The Club of Queer Trades with his friend Basil Grant, a retired judge, and Rupert Grant, a private detective who is Basil's younger brother. Each of the stories describes their encounter with one of the trades.
Download or read book The Club of Queer Trades 1905 written by G K Chesterton and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-12 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Club of Queer Trades is a collection of stories by G. K. Chesterton first published in 1905Each story in the collection is centered on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means (a "queer trade", using the word "queer" in the sense of "peculiar"). To gain admittance one must have invented a unique means of earning a living and the subsequent trade being the main source of income.The framing narrative by "Cherub" Swinburne describes his quest for The Club of Queer Trades with his friend Basil Grant, a retired judge, and Rupert Grant, a private detective who is Basil's younger brother. Each of the stories describes their encounter with one of the trades.
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Download or read book City and Shore written by Gillian Mary Hanson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Certain settings have long been a common element in British mystery and detective fiction: the quaint village; the country manor; the seaside resort; the streets of London. More than simply providing background, physical setting--in particular the city of London and the British seashore--takes on an added dimension, in a sense becoming a player in the mysteries, one that symbolizes, intensifies, and illuminates aspects of the British mystery novel. The first section examines 18 British mystery novels set in the city of London; the second covers 15 novels set by the sea. The novels span the twentieth century; among the authors whose works are included are Agatha Christie, Graham Greene, G.K. Chesterton and P.D. James. The book includes a short biography and listing of primary works for the authors covered, and appendices offer suggested fiction utilizing the two settings, and critical nonfiction covering the genre.
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Download or read book The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature written by David Scott Kastan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-03 with total page 2656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From folk ballads to film scripts, this new five-volume encyclopedia covers the entire history of British literature from the seventh century to the present, focusing on the writers and the major texts of what are now the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. In five hundred substantial essays written by major scholars, the Encyclopedia of British Literature includes biographies of nearly four hundred individual authors and a hundred topical essays with detailed analyses of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions whose impact upon the writing or the reading of literature was significant. An ideal companion to The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, this set will prove invaluable for students, scholars, and general readers. For more information, including a complete table of contents and list of contributors, please visit www.oup.com/us/ebl
Download or read book English Literature and Ideas in the Twentieth Century written by H.V. Routh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English Literature and Ideas in the Twentieth Century (1950) looks at the British pioneers of a new style of writing in the twentieth century. Handling new material in new ways, their experiments in technique and presentation are examined by the light of what was passing in their minds, and in the minds of their readers – attitudes, aspirations and dreams which are sometimes uncongenial, always unconventional.
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