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Автор: Chesterton
Название: Club of Queer Trades
ISBN: 9780486255347
Издательство: Dover
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Книги о преступлениях и таинственных событиях

ISBN-10: 0486255344
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 128
Вес: 0.19 кг.
Дата издания: 31.01.1988
Язык: English
Размер: 134 x 209 x 9
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: British writers have long enjoyed inventing preposterous clubs with eccentric members, unusual qualifications for membership and zany rules of behavior. The brilliant and gifted G. K. Chesterton was no exception, and the entertaining short stories in this volume revolve around just such an institution. In The Club of Queer Trades, candidates qualify for admission by creating a thoroughly original profession and proving they can make a living from it.
Six marvelously funny episodes with improbable plots are made especially pleasurable through Chestertons vivid descriptions of late Victorian London, sly pokes at the legal system, and a characteristic gift for delicious nonsense. In each story, a bizarre crime -- such as kidnapping of a respected clergyman in The Awful Reason of the Vicars Visit -- seems in the process of being committed. Actually, the events are all frenzied activities traceable to club members or would-be members. Here are intriguing tales of a little old lady imprisoned in a gloomy private dungeon; of prim and proper matrons bent on committing evil deeds; of a former British army officer and his extremely unusual residence; and a host of other incredible characters and situations.
Admirers of Chestertons work will be delighted to learn that this edition contains all 32 of the authors own original illustrations -- the first republication to do so. In addition, a new Introduction on Chestertons life and art and an appreciation of the special qualities of this work.