The Flying Inn edition by G K Chesterton Literature Fiction eBooks
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Extravagant, satirical, amusing to those who can read in the spirit in which it is written, and these will be fewer than the readers who enjoyed Manalive. The characters are caricatures who so approach possible types that they are convincing in their very impossibility. They are the means of attacking most of the foibles of the day.
The Flying Inn edition by G K Chesterton Literature Fiction eBooks
GK Chesterton is just a great author. He is one of the few authors whose books I read a second or third time. This book is set between the two world wars in England. This work of Chesterton's addresses the infatuation the gentry and pseudo intellectual class have with a modern "prophet" of Islam. He travels about England and speaks of the origins of all good things arising from Islam. The rich doting class and the gadfly "disciples" of this movement, are heard by MPs who eventually outlaw public drinking establishments. Two men, an old Irish soldier and an English pub owner, go on a crusade (pun intended) to be vagabonds for hearty drink for the heart of England. They travel about and place the "Flying Inn" sign in front of unsuspecting persons who benefit from the temporary public house, usually one night or even an hour. I found the theme of the book quite ironic given the demise of English Europeans and the rise of Muslim self-governing neighborhoods in England.Product details
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The Flying Inn edition by G K Chesterton Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
As can be expected from Chesterton, Brilliant.
Brilliant characters, a cogent and thoughtful plot, and perhaps just as relevant and witty now as when originally written.
This is a little tome that will swipe at politically correct insanity. Ah to be so free to write what you actually think! Those were the days!
An awesome, completely hilarious, deeply profound book. Everyone should read it. And over and over again to glean all possible meaning from it.
Weird but enjoyable. Though very dated it makes a few strong points which would be applicable to modern times.
Nothing against the book, just this edition of it.
It's printed on 8 1/2 x 11 in paper with cheap binding and cover and table of contents clearly scanned from an older book. The text appears to have been copied and pasted from a digital edition and clearly was not proofread at all. There are all kinds of formatting errors - line breaks mid-sentence, stray indents, headers and footers in the middle of the page, etc.
Not worth the price.The flying inn (1914) by G. K. Chesterton NOVEL
G. K. Chesterton is a hugely powerful voice, both intellectually and spiritually. I resonate to him as I do to few others (a few examples of my personal favorites, going in different directions, would be Leo Tolstoy, Ayn Rand, Robert Heinlein, James Branch Cabell). "The Flying Inn", published in England in 1914, is a tale of a man who is confronted by modern cultural trends -- and, oddly enough, this focus on all things "modern" (in 1914) is no less relevant today than it was a hundred years ago. Chesterton saw England as being a culture in transition and in conflict with itself, and the struggles he saw play out dramatically in this novel The individual versus the collective; common sense versus political correctness; right and wrong versus legal and illegal; a healthy soul versus a healthy body. But to state these themes makes the book sound like a lecture, and it's not that (although it does freely meander into occasional philosophical discourses, some of which didn't hold my interest); this story is, more than anything else, an adventure and an odyssey, which begins when Mr. Humphrey Pump wants to visit the local pub in pursuit of a pleasant hour, but he finds it is being shut down by lawmakers who have decreed the neighborhood bar to be an unhealthy anachronism. Thus begins a tale of flight and civil disobedience (hence the title, "The Flying Inn"). We meet a curious collection of characters that are driving, hindering, observing, and contemplating this safe, regulated, soulless, terrifying world of the near future.
The descriptions of multicultural mandates are prescient. For example, one of the major characters, an English lawmaker, is enamored with Islam, and he becomes an agent of social progress, having decided it's necessary to make England less offensive to its Muslim friends -- thus England is to be purged of pubs, not to mention, for example, ending the offensive Christian habit of marking ballots with a cross (they should be marked instead with a crescent). A lot of the details of this enlightened "tolerance" ring disturbingly true when juxtaposed against the excesses of the present day.
Like "Gulliver's Travels", "The Flying Inn" is both a serious social comment and a lot of fun. There's a reason it's still in print after all these years.
The good guys of The Flying Inn are fighting to keep the old taverns and traditional English ways. I don't drink myself, but the book makes a convincing case that abstinence imposed from above is oppression. GKC creates characters (Captain Dalroy, Humphrey Pump, and Lady Joan, for instance) that we care about. In some sense, the book is a parable, but it's also a good, convincing story. If you find this tale entertains you, you'll also want to read "The Man Who Was Thursday" and "The Ball and the Cross" and "Manalive." The rebel heroes in all these tales are simply trying to bring society back to sanity.
GK Chesterton is just a great author. He is one of the few authors whose books I read a second or third time. This book is set between the two world wars in England. This work of Chesterton's addresses the infatuation the gentry and pseudo intellectual class have with a modern "prophet" of Islam. He travels about England and speaks of the origins of all good things arising from Islam. The rich doting class and the gadfly "disciples" of this movement, are heard by MPs who eventually outlaw public drinking establishments. Two men, an old Irish soldier and an English pub owner, go on a crusade (pun intended) to be vagabonds for hearty drink for the heart of England. They travel about and place the "Flying Inn" sign in front of unsuspecting persons who benefit from the temporary public house, usually one night or even an hour. I found the theme of the book quite ironic given the demise of English Europeans and the rise of Muslim self-governing neighborhoods in England.
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