The Poet and the Lunatics

The Poet and the Lunatics: Episodes in the Life of Gabriel Gale is a 1929 work by G. K. Chesterton. It consists of a series of short stories about Gabriel Gale, who is a poet and painter. Every story involves another character who is mad in some way. The work is sometimes called a novel, ^[1] and usually categorized as detective fiction. ^{[2] [3]}

The stories were first published in Nash's Magazine in 1921. ^[4] John C. Tibbetts describes them as "among Chesterton's most evocative twilight tales." ^[4]

Contents

• The fantastic friends
• The yellow bird
• The shadow of the shark
• The crime of Gabriel Gale
• The finger of stone
• The house of the Peacock
• The purple jewel
• The asylum of adventure

Editions

• — (1929). The poet and the lunatics: Episodes in the life of Gabriel Gale (1st ed.). New York City: Dodd, Mead & Company. OCLC   708738. OL   27784461M.
• — (1929). The poet and the lunatics: Episodes in the life of Gabriel Gale (Catholic Book Club ed.). New York City: Dodd, Mead & Company. OCLC   977633528. OL   49216830M.
• — (1929). The poet and the lunatics: Episodes in the life of Gabriel Gale. Bernhard Tauchnitz. OL   20028470M.
• — (1929). The poet and the lunatics: Episodes in the life of Gabriel Gale. London: Cassell and company. OCLC   3108849. OL   6730946M.
• — (1955). The poet and the lunatics: Episodes in the life of Gabriel Gale. New World Chesterton. New York City: Sheed and Ward. OCLC   3232721. OL   6177569M.
• — (1963). The poet and the lunatics: Episodes in the life of Gabriel Gale. G. K. Chesterton reprint series. Philadelphia: Dufour editions. LCCN   62020607. OL   5858153M.
• — (29 November 2006). The poet and the lunatics: Episodes in the life of Gabriel Gale (HTML). Leicester, UK: Martin Ward.
• — (November 2008). The poet and the lunatics: Episodes in the life of Gabriel Gale . Dodo Press. ISBN   978-1-4099-3126-3.
• — (17 December 2010). The poet and the lunatics: Episodes in the life of Gabriel Gale. Dover Publications. ISBN   978-0-486-47843-2. OCLC   662153666.
• — (March 2013). The poet and the lunatics: Episodes in the life of Gabriel Gale (HTML). Sydney: Project Gutenberg Australia.

References

1. Reyburn, Duncan (2017). Seeing Things as They Are: G.K. Chesterton and the Drama of Meaning. The Lutterworth Press. p. 205. ISBN   9780718846008 . Retrieved 26 April 2022.
2. Van Dover, J.K. (2019). The Detective and the Artist: Painters, Poets and Writers in Crime Fiction, 1840s-1970s. McFarland. p. 62. ISBN   9781476677491 . Retrieved 26 April 2022.
3. Ahlquist, Dale (14 December 2010). "Lecture 56: The Poet and the Lunatics". Chesterton University. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
4. Tibbetts, John C. (2021). The Dark Side of G.K. Chesterton: Gargoyles and Grotesques. McFarland. p. 73. ISBN   9781476643977 . Retrieved 26 April 2022.

External Links

• The Poet and the Lunatics public domain audiobook at LibriVox