Short Fiction Chesterton, G.K.: The Trees of Pride. v1 1 Nov 2014

[AlexBell]

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), 'the prince of paradox', was an English writer and polemicist whose prolific output included philosophy, ontology, poetry, drama, journalism, public lecturing and debating, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy, and detective fiction. His writings and conversation displayed wit and humour, while including serious comments on government, politics, economics, philosophy, theology, literature, and many other topics. His friends included C.S. Lewis, Hilaire Beloc, George Bernard Shaw, and H.G. Wells.

The Trees of Pride was published in 1922, but I have been unable to determine the publisher or find a pdf of the original text. The novella is set in a small fishing village in Cornwall in which 'There are powers, there is the spirit of a place, there are presences that are not to be put by... vegetable ogres... metaphors that take us at once into dreamland [and] events buried under riddles.' On one level it is a murder mystery, and on another it deals with how we know things.

The source text was Project Gutenberg 1721-h.htm. I have silently corrected typos, curled quotes, replaced italics, used British English, and made changes to spelling, punctuation, and hyphenation using oxforddictionaries.com.

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