Fancies Versus Fads

By G.K. Chesterton

Book Overview

In the essays collected in Fancies versus Fads , G. K. Chesterton positions himself as an assailant of "the nonsense of the world" a sworn enemy of fashionable doctrines and the excesses into which they lead their adherents. While sometimes dismissed as a fogeyish reactionary--an image to which he at times gleefully plays up--Chesterton emerges from these essays as a witty and perceptive critic possessed of a profound generosity of spirit. Ranging in its preoccupations from psychoanalysis and the temperance movement to child-rearing and free verse, Fancies versus Fads is a brilliant introduction to one of the most distinctive voices of twentieth-century literature.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1916809251
• ISBN13: 9781916809253
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Eris
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.3" x 7.0"