The Flying Inn (Annotated)

The Flying Inn is Chesterton's exuberant 1914 satirical romance, a comic campaign against bureaucratic puritanism, imperial abstraction, and the thinning of English convivial life. Its plot follows the colossal Irish Captain Patrick Dalroy and the innkeeper Humphrey Pump as they carry a cheese, a cask of rum, and a dislodged inn-sign across an England where public houses are being legislated out o...