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Jun 15, Matthew rated it really liked it Shelves: The central idea is to confront the dominant genre of detective stories along the Sherlock Holmes’ line of inquiry. More and more and more time Want to Read saving…. Not the mysteries I thought they’d be, nor are they exceptional short stories.
Feb 16, Stephen rated it it was amazing.
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I started this book as a pleasurable digression from other more ponderous essays. The reason is the mechanism Chesterton chose to draw them all togethe Chesterton paints word pictures that are kind of like an Arthur Rackham illustration – realistic, distorted and ethereal whimsy.
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The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond by G.K. Chesterton
One can enjoy the verbal wit in such stories, but the plot-lines are thought-experiments in the barest form. But I must confess that I sometimes find his fiction tedious and contrived, with fun spots here and there. The Paradoxes of Mr. Posthumously published, Chesterton’s last crime laa.
Trivia About The Paradoxes of Pond to be more appealing than that of Sherlock though I have only read two Sherlock stories. Nobody doing much jumping around. Return to Book Page. Now in the public domain with a free electronic copy available ve. Jan 31, Douglas Wilson rated it liked it Shelves: Love is like that.
This is a collection around a Mr.
Perhaps it is a fragile illusion; perhaps, on the other hand, it Wonderfully plotted short mysteries by a 20th century writer who also offers some brilliant insights into human nature. Pond’s is about knowing the mental-model that each individual brings to the interpretation of the same data. Chesterton’s style of writing is both captivating and literate, and this book in particular is worth reading and rereading several times.
Chesterton was equally at ease with literary kas social criticism, history, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology. Feb 19, Smallllama rated it it was amazing. To view it, click here. But Friendship eats up time. To see what your friends thought of this book, paraadojas sign up. Pond’s outrageous statement, which precedes every tale. Pond, an unassuming and fish-like civil servant. Pond is not as interesting a character at Father Brown or Gabriel Syme or the plethora of other characters that populate GKC’s fiction.
More and more and more time, up to long past midnight. Inhe was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time. Jul 12, Meg rated it liked it.
Thanks for telling us about the problem. The stories are written in his characteristic style, and while they flit between different narrative layers, they are easy to read, and a good thing to.
The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond
Sep 13, Dee rated it it was ok. Things are not what they seemed to observers; each of us brings our own mental framework to interpret what we saw. Aug 17, Ange rated it it was amazing.
I was reminded of the Jeeves stories that I read long ago as a child given the correctness and gentility of the characters and the mild disparagement of anyone or anything not British, really the final echo of a non-ironic sense of British superiority in the waning days of Empire, given that the stories were written just before the Secon This volume consists of eight well-written humorous mysteries – which can be characterized as ingenious, light, escapist fiction, the opposite of thrillers.
Aug 27, Garrett rated it really liked it. Perhaps it is a fragile illusion; perhaps, on the other hand, it is eternal and beyond time. Open Preview See a Problem? Pond is entertaining, and all the supporting characters are very good too. Great writing, very good stories especially the three first ones and tons of those witty sentences that make Chesterton one of the best writers ever existing in the Earth.
Simply delicious, in Chesterton’s general tone.