Alarms and Discursions

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Thomas Cole, John Constable and James Arthur O'Connor. Essays on whatever was in front of him: gargoyles, telegraph poles, a drama of dolls, cheese, a criminal head, the gold of Glastonbury, the white horses cut in the chalk downs, the field of Ethandune where Alfred beat the Danes. Chesterton is at his best at this length, turning a small thing...