The Spice of Life and Other Essays

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The Spice of Life and Other Essays (1964)
Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Edited by Dorothy Collins.

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These essays cover a wide range of time and source. The Spice of Life was written only three months before G.K. Chesterton died. None of them has appeared in a collection before. - D.E.C.

212228The Spice of Life and Other Essays1964Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Edited by Dorothy Collins.

Part One: Essays on Literature in General

Sentimental Literature (1901)
How to Write a Detective Story (before 1937)
Humour (1928)
Fiction as Food, Part 1 (1924)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2029
Fiction as Food, Part 2 (1911)
The Soul in Every Legend (1921)

Part Two: On Particular Books and Writers

The Macbeths—Copyrighted in the United States until 2046
The Tragedy of King Lear—Copyrighted in the United States until 2045
The Everlasting Nights (1901)
Aesop's Fables (1912)
Both Sides of the Looking-Glass (1933)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2028
And So To Bed (1926)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2031
As Large as Life in Dickens (1902)
Disputes on Dickens (before 1937)
Charlotte Bronte as a Romantic (1917)

Part Three: Thought and Belief

Anti-Religious Thought in the Eighteenth Century (1926)
The Camp and the Cathedral (before 1937)
The Religious Aspect of Westminster Abbey (before 1937)
The Religious Aim of Education (1925)
The Philosophy of Islands (1903)

Part Four: At Home and Abroad

On Holidays (1914)
The Peasant (1911)
The Lost Railway Station (1919)
Bethlehem and the Great Cities (1922)
The Sacredness of Sites (1930)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2025
Scipio and the Children (1935)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2030
The Real Issue (1926)

Part Five: The Spice of Life

The Comic Constable (1910)
Capone’s Pal (1935)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2030
On Losing One’s Head (1910)
The Spice of Life (1936)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2031
On Fragments (1906)