G.K. Chesterton

English writer, poet, philosopher, lay theologian, literary and art critic, and Christian apologist, best known for the Father Brown detective stories, The Man Who Was Thursday, and the apologetic work Orthodoxy.

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  1. 1. The Flying Inn

    A Merry Tale

    Set in an imaginatively altered Britain where puritanical laws and authoritarian morality threaten ordinary pleasures and liberties, this satirical novel follows two irreverent companions who turn a mobile coach into a traveling public house and roam the countryside selling drink and challenging the new order; through comic episodes, courtroom clashes, debates with officials and clerics, and encounters with common folk, their adventures lampoon hypocrisy, defend traditional customs and common sense, and mix adventure and wit with pointed political and moral argument.

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