The Return of Don Quixote

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g.k Chesterton. The Return of Don Quixote

The Return of Don Quixote

Table of Contents

I. — A HOLE IN THE CASTE

II. — A DANGEROUS MAN

III. — THE LADDER IN THE LIBRARY

IV. — THE FIRST TRIAL OF JOHN BRAINTREE

V. — THE SECOND TRIAL OF JOHN BRAINTREE

VI. — A COMMISSION AS COLOURMAN

VII. — "BLONDEL THE TROUBADOUR"

VIII. — THE MISADVENTURES OF MONKEY

IX. — THE MYSTERY OF A HANSOM CAB

X. — WHEN DOCTORS DISAGREE

XI. — THE LUNACY OF THE LIBRARIAN

XII. — THE STATESMAN AND THE SUMMER-HOUSE

XIII. — THE VICTORIAN AND THE ARROW

XIV. — THE RETURN OF THE KNIGHT-ERRANT

XV. — THE PARTING OF THE WAYS

XVI. — THE JUDGMENT OF THE KING

XVII. — THE DEPARTURE OF DON QUIXOTE

XVIII. — THE SECRET OF SEAWOOD

XIX. — THE RETURN OF DON QUIXOTE

THE END

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G.K. Chesterton

Published by Good Press, 2021

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"I detest him and his young men," said Olive, with sudden energy. "In the old days people complained of young people breaking out because they were romantic. But these young men break out because they are sordid; just prosaic and low, and wrangling about machinery and money—materialists. They just want a world of atheists, that would soon be a world of apes."

After a silence, Murrel crossed to the other end of the long room and could be heard calling a number into the telephone. There ensued one of those half conversations that make the hearer feel as if he were literally half-witted: but in this case the subject matter was fairly clear from the context.

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