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Reflections on life that are hilarious, touching, and sometimes even terrifying. Trifles? No. Chesterton goes deep even when he seems to have a light touch. Laugh at ´´What I Found in My Pocket´´ and ´´On Lying in Bed´´, meditate on ´´A Piece of Chalk´´ and warm up to ´´The Dragon´s Grandmother´´ and shiver at ´´The Diabolist.´´ Reflections on life that are hilarious, touching, and sometimes even terrifying. Trifles? No. Chesterton goes deep even when he seems to have a light touch. Laugh at ´´What I Found in My Pocket´´ and ´´On Lying in Bed´´, meditate on ´´A Piece of Chalk´´ and warm up to ´´The Dragon´s Grandmother´´ and shiver at ´´The Diabolist.´´ Sofort per Download lieferbar Lieferzeit 1-2 Werktage.

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Once upon a time there were two little boys who lived chiefly in the front garden,because their villa was a model one. The front garden was about the same size as thedinner table; it consisted of four strips of gravel, a square of turf with some mysteriouspieces of cork standing up in the middle and one flower bed with a row of red daisies. Onemorning while they were at play in these romantic grounds, a passing individual, probablythe milkman, leaned over the railing and engaged them in philosophical conversation. Theboys, whom we will call Paul and Peter, were at least sharply interested in his remarks. Forthe milkman (who was, I need say, a fairy) did his duty in that state of life by offering themin the regulation manner anything that they chose to ask for. And Paul closed with the offerwith a business-like abruptness, explaining that he had long wished to be a giant that hemight stride across continents and oceans and visit Niagara or the Himalayas in anafternoon dinner stroll. The milkman producing a wand from his breast pocket, waved it ina hurried and perfunctory manner; and in an instant the model villa with its front gardenwas like a tiny doll's house at Paul's colossal feet. He went striding away with his headabove the clouds to visit Niagara and the Himalayas. But when he came to the Himalayas,he found they were quite small and silly-looking, like the little cork rockery in the garden;and when he found Niagara it was no bigger than the tap turned on in the bathroom. Hewandered round the world for several minutes trying to find something really large andfinding everything small, till in sheer boredom he lay down on four or five prairies and fellasleep. Unfortunately his head was just outside the hut of an intellectual backwoodsmanwho came out of it at that moment with an axe in one hand and a book of Neo-CatholicPhilosophy in the other. The man looked at the book and then at the giant, and then at thebook again. And in the book it said, It can be maintained that the evil of pride consists inbeing out of proportion to the universe. So the backwoodsman put down his book, took hisaxe and, working eight hours a day for about a week, cut the giant's head off; and there wasan end of him.

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The thirty-nine short essays that make up Chesterton's delightful book are the result of sitting still and letting marvels and adventures settle on him like flies.'' Actually, the author does move around quite a bit-to Germany, France, and on foot in England when he tires of waiting for a train. Everywhere he goes, Chesterton looks at ordinary things and asks us to see how extraordinary they are: the contents of his pockets, the items in a railway station, pedestrians in the street. What appear to be trifles are actually tremendous, and he uses them as a springboard to expound on Christianity, the nuclear family, democracy and the like, with supreme clarity and wit.The essays gathered here are a testament to G. K. Chesterton's faith-not specifically his faith in religion or a higher power, but in the ability to discover something wonderful in the objects, the experiences, and the people that cross our paths every single day. With his unique brand of humor and insight, he demonstrates how the commonplace adds enormous value to the landscape of daily life. Full of both good sense and nonsense, Chesterton's commentaries-first published nearly a century ago-remain fresh today.

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Reflections on life that are hilarious, touching, and sometimes even terrifying. Trifles? No. Chesterton goes deep even when he seems to have a light touch. Laugh at "What I Found in My Pocket" and "On Lying in Bed", meditate on "A Piece of Chalk" and warm up to "The Dragon's Grandmother" and shiver at "The Diabolist.", Kindle Ausgabe, Format: Kindle eBook, Label: Aeterna Classics, Aeterna Classics, Produktgruppe: eBooks, Publiziert: 2018-05-01, Freigegeben: 2018-05-01, Studio: Aeterna Classics.

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Reflections on life that are hilarious, touching, and sometimes even terrifying. Trifles? No. Chesterton goes deep even when he seems to have a light touch. Laugh at "What I Found in My Pocket" and "On Lying in Bed", meditate O.

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These fleeting sketches are all republished by kind permission of the Editor of the DAILY NEWS, in which paper they appeared. They amount to no more than a sort of sporadic diary--a diary recording one day in twenty which happened to stick in the fancy-- the only kind of diary the author has ever been able to keep.

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Tremendous-Trifles~~G-K-Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles, NOOK Book (eBook).