| Description |
vii, [1], 9-238 pages including illustrations, plates (some color) 25 cm |
| Note |
A collection of prose and verse written between 1891 and 1934. |
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Printed in Great Britain. |
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Introduction (pages 9-16) signed: Maisie Ward. |
| Contents |
The coloured lands -- Bob-up-and-down -- The whale's wooing -- The disadvantage of having two heads -- Ballade of kindness to motorists -- The jazz -- Half-hours in Hades -- Dreams -- Stilton and Milton -- In the evening -- Triolet -- The end of the anecdote -- The wild goose chase -- The artistic side -- Ballade of the grotesque -- A song of wild fruit -- Paints in a paint-box -- A fragment -- Les boileaux -- The two taverns -- Tagtug and the tree of knowledge -- Ballade of the tea-pot -- The professor and the cook -- Girl guides -- Wonder and the wooden post -- Ballade of dead men -- The taming of the nightmare -- On household gods and goblins -- The phantom butler -- The joys of science -- The legend of the sword -- Plakkopytrixophylisperambulantiobatrix -- Christmas and the first games -- Ballade of a stoic -- A nightmare -- Homesick at home. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
Ward, Maisie, 1889-1975.
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Ward, Maisie, 1889-1975. (OCoLC)fst01734827
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English essays -- 20th century.
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English essays. (OCoLC)fst00910809
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Added Author |
Ward, Maisie, 1889-1975.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Chesterton, G.K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936. Coloured lands. New York, Sheed & Ward, 1938 (OCoLC)568557697 |
| Standard No. |
D06001798X |
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