I did discover The Man Who Was Thursday on my own!
The Napoleon of Notting Hill is my favourite of Chesterton's fictions- apart, that is, from the Father Brown stories- which are in a class of their own.
I never really picked them up, despite growing up with the collected stories in the house. What sets them apart for you?
I believe Auberon Quin (king of the fairies meets Harlequin) was modelled (loosely, of course) on Max Beerbohm.
He looks like it in the illustrations of the edition I have, which are reproduced from the original.
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I did discover The Man Who Was Thursday on my own!
The Napoleon of Notting Hill is my favourite of Chesterton's fictions- apart, that is, from the Father Brown stories- which are in a class of their own.
I never really picked them up, despite growing up with the collected stories in the house. What sets them apart for you?
I believe Auberon Quin (king of the fairies meets Harlequin) was modelled (loosely, of course) on Max Beerbohm.
He looks like it in the illustrations of the edition I have, which are reproduced from the original.