Gain Access To Daylight And Nightmare: Uncollected Stories And Fables Authored By G.K. Chesterton Accessible As Digital

and Nightmare is a veritable grab bag of stories by one of Britain's greatest writers, containing fables, fairy tales, fantasy, and even stories which might qualify as dystopian or science fiction.
If you're looking for something different to pass the day's idle minutes, give this collection a try, This collection is certainly not the best of Chesterton, but I find a lot of enjoyment even in these lesser works, His writing style is of the rare sort where you feel like you have gotten to know him just by reading his stories, and he's a joy to know.
For the most part at least,

The best part of this collection is that the works herein presage the much better books that Chesterton wrote later in his career, For instance, A Picture of Tuesdayis focused on something expanded upon in the finale of The Man Who Was Thursday, Homesick at Homeis a depiction of the same idea that a part of Manalivedepicted to better effect, The discussion of the architecture of St, Paul's Cathedral in A Nightmareis a clear precursor to a similar discussion in The Ball and The Cross, Chivalry Begins at Homewas published long after The Napoleon of Notting Hill, but the starkly contrary conclusions are an interesting juxtaposition, As a huge fan of Chesterton, it was certainly interesting to read these early renditions of Chestertons ideas,

Another highlight of this collection is that Chesterton took these very short stories as an opportunity to explore tones that are vastly different than what you find in his longer works.
The stories The Angry Street and On Secular Education in particular are both almost Kafkaesque, though they reference spirituality and religion more explicitly than Kafka ever did, Other stories have stronger tinges of science fiction than you find in Chestertons books, I doubt most readers will get much pleasure from these small things, but I enjoyed seeing stories that showcased a slightly expanded range for one of my favorite authors.


The collection is not without some serious problems, however, As previously mentioned, these stories just arent toptier Chesterton, the best only serving as stepping stones to his better work, Additionally, Chestertons flaw of worshiping tradition because its tradition and being suspicious of the new just because its new, a flaw that persisted throughout his prolific career, is on full display in these stories.
This is especially true in The Conversion of an Anarchist, wherein a contrarian man that loves everything modern completely reverses all of his beliefs over the course of a single evening when hes confronted with the fact that other contrarians are annoying.
But even in a bad Chesterton short story theres a grain of truth: contrarians are annoying,

This collection is something I could only recommend to diehard Chesterton fans, but thats also the only group of people who are at all likely to consider reading it.
Even if Chesterton is your

favorite, though, go into this one with reasonable expectations, These works have that Chesterton charm, but not in great enough quantities to disguise the fact that theyre only okay,/. While this collection contains some hardtofind pieces and some outright gems such as The Angry Street, this book is hardly a "best of" Chesterton as it claims, In content it is in the same vein as Chesterton's other work, The idea that a darker side is revealed only here is ludicrous as anyone who has read Chesterton's other stories will see that the same "darker side" is present throughout his work.
Despite this, it is a must for all Chestertonians though because some of these pieces are not collected elsewhere, If you're new to Chesterton check out The Innocence of Father Brown, The Club of Queer Trades, The Napoleon of Notting Hill, The Man Who Knew Too Much, or Tremendous Trifles or all of the above, or more! instead and come back to this much later.
Cracking good fun! and good thought, And good stories. Short and rather delightful combination of stories, fables, and fairy tales, Entirely worth reading for anyone who enjoys Chesterton, "When I saw her something stirred within me like the memory of a previous existence, "

"My dear sir, adventure is a great thing, a glorious thing and why Because it kills off adventurous people, "

Every story in this collection sparkles with imagination and insight, Light and charming, but no less engaging and thoughtinvoking than artistically penned, affording any reader hours of pleasant thought between chapters, A pretty hard slog. There's a reason these pieces are uncollected, My belief that I might be a GK Chesterton completist has been successfully challenged,

'The Taming of the Nightmare' stood out as the best story, Intriguingly, it's thought to have been written in, when the author wasif that's correct, it seems to be the earliest work in this book, There are other pieces I remember liking but barely remember, as they were very short, and I read many of them months ago, As a now nearGKCcompletist, it is good to have read those,

Lots of the stories come from GK's Weekly, a publication edited by GKC, It's easy to imagine the editor of a weekly magazine occasionally throwing a few pages of dross into it to avoid having to sell blank pages, And now here they are, preserved in fine hardcovers, Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic, He was educated at St, Pauls, and went to art school at University College London, In, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time, He wrote a hundred books, contributions to, hundreds of poems, including the epic Ballad of the White Horse, five plays, five novels, and some two hundred short stories, including a popular series featuring the priest detective, Father Brown.
In spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist, He wrote overnewspaper essays, includingyears worth of weekly co Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic, He was educated at St, Pauls, and went to art school at University College London, In, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time, He wrote a hundred books, contributions to, hundreds of poems, including the epic Ballad of the White Horse, five plays, five novels, and some two hundred short stories, including a popular series featuring the priest detective, Father Brown.
In spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist, He wrote overnewspaper essays, includingyears worth of weekly columns for the Illustrated London News, andyears of weekly columns for the Daily News, He also edited his own newspaper, G, K. s Weekly. Chesterton was equally at ease with literary and social criticism, history, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology, sitelink.