- Fiction, Drinking of alcoholic beverages, Prohibition, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
Like many of Chesterton's works, The Flying Inn is a humorous, satirical romp that conceals beneath a playful exterior important and thoughtful philosophical insights on religion, the nature of the state, political oversight and authority, and the roots of human liberty.
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Resolved, classical in form, comic and warm.
- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- First published
- 1914
- Pages
- 282
- Publisher
- Age d'homme, Garden City Pub. Co., Lulu.com
- Editions
- 107
- Language
- English, Spanish, Italian, French
- ISBN
- 9788477743873
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**Gilbert Keith Chesterton** was an English writer, lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and Christian apologist.
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