Man Who Was Thursday

by G. K. Chesterton, New Century Books (Editor)

Overview

THE TWO POETS OF SAFFRON PARK

THE suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and
ragged as a cloud of sunset. It was built of a bright brick throughout;
its sky?line was fantastic, and even its ground plan was wild. It had
been the outburst of a speculative builder, faintly tinged with art,
who called its architecture sometimes Elizabethan and sometimes Queen
Anne, apparently under the impression that the two sovereigns were
identical. It was described with some justice as an artistic colony,
though it never in any definable way produced any art. But although its
pretensions to be an intellectual centre were a little vague, its
pretensions to be a pleasant place were quite indisputable.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011943706
Publisher:	New Century Books
Publication date:	10/27/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	149 KB

About the Author

British writer GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON (1874-1936) expounded prolifically about his wide-ranging philosophies. A man of strong opinions, with a humorous style that earned him the title of the "prince of paradox," he is impossible to categorize as "liberal" or "conservative": he was a literary critic, historian, playwright, novelist, columnist, and poet. His thousands of essays and 80 books remain among the most beloved in the English language.