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Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and commons, the horizon of which was fringed with the far-off woods of the famous estate of Torwood Park. He was a good-looking young man in tweeds, with very pale curly hair and pale clear eyes. Walking in wind and sun in the very landscape of liberty, he was still young enough to remember his politics and not merely try to forget them....
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(Gilbert Keith),Works volume 6
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"ales of the Long Bow are eight ingenious episodes concerning people who do things that are proverbially impossible. The teasing intricacy of their interlocking narratives heightens the excitement, yet the tales are simple and vivid. Never far from the politics and economics of contemporary Britain, they contain subtle and engaging portraits of leading figures such as Lord Eden, Harold and Oliver Green."
4) Chaucer
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"As you might expect, Chesterton uses Chaucer as an excuse for talking about practically everything else, and a supremely fortunate excuse Chaucer provides. For Chaucer, above all men, deserves the vague and promiscuosly granted title 'first of the moderns.' The 'Canterbury Tales' is virtually the first novel of character, and Chaucer wrote it, fittingly enough, in a little thind he'd tossed off himself, namely the English language. But he was also...
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An eccentric poet acts as spiritual detective in eight thought-provoking tales. Gabriel Gale employs his extraordinary gifts of empathy to solve and prevent crimes perpetrated by madmen. His philosophical police-work forms the basis for captivating explorations of poetry, insanity, and sin - all expressed in the author's characteristic paradoxes and soaring flights of rhetoric. Best known as the creator of priest-detective Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton...
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