Tales of the Long Bow

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Published 1900 onward, Humorous Fiction

Authors: G. K. Chesterton In Year : 1925

Book Language: English

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The Unpresentable Appearance of Colonel Crane
The Improbable Success of Mr. Owen Hood
The Unobtrusive Traffic of Captain Pierce
The Elusive Companion of Parson White
The Exclusive Luxury of Enoch Oates
The Unthinkable Theory of Professor Green
The Unprecedented Architecture of Commander Blair
The Ultimate Ultimatum of the League of the Long Bow

These tales concern the doing of things recognized as impossible to do; impossible to believe; and, as the weary reader may well cry aloud, impossible to read about. Did the narrator merely say that they happened, without saying how they happened, they could easily be classified with the cow who jumped over the moon or the more introspective individual who jumped down his own throat. In short, they are all tall stories; and though tall stories may also be true stories, there is something in the very phrase appropriate to such a topsy-turvydom; for the logician will presumably class a tall story with a corpulent epigram or a long-legged essay. (From the book)