Prohibition and the Press

Fancies Versus Fads

by G. K. CHESTERTON (1874 - 1936)

A Collection of 31 essays from G.K. Chesterton. “I have strung these things together on a slight enough thread; but as the things themselves are slight, it is possible that the thread (and the metaphor) may manage to hang together. These notes range over very variegated topics and in many cases were made at very different times. They concern all sorts of things from lady barristers to cave-men, and from psycho-analysis to free verse. Yet they have this amount of unity in their wandering, that they all imply that it is only a more traditional spirit that is truly able to wander.” (From the Introduction)

Listen next episodes of Fancies Versus Fads:
A Defense of Dramatic Unities , A Note on Old Nonsense , False Theory and the Theatre , How Mad Laws are Made , Is Darwin Dead? , Milton and Merry England , Much Too Modern History , Street Cars and Stretching the Law , Strikes and the Spirit of Wonder , The Boredom of Butterflies , The Evolution of Slaves , The Innocence of the Criminal , The Mercy of Mr. Arnold Bennett , The Myth of the 'Mayflower' , The Pagoda of Progress , The Prudery of the Feminists , The Secret Society of Mankind , The Sentimentalism of Divorce , The Terror of a Toy , Turning Inside Out , Why Reformers Go Wrong