Tales of the Long Bow
The journals of a club which called itself the Lunatic Asylum: a group of amiable eccentrics who spend their time trying to do the impossible. At first they are nothing more than that: four whimsical idiots with no sense of responsibility, clowning outrageously for the sake of clowning. But soon they begin to see themselves as men with a mission: for they find that they are the only people left in England who are still defending the individual soul against conformity, wealth, and the super-state.
As they find their buffoonery hemmed in more and more by official regulations, their pranks turn into a form of rebellion. The humor remains, but it takes on a purpose. And in the process, the tenuously connected stories turn into a novel. The book ends in a kind of crescendo of madness, which is at once a parable, and a clear call to arms (or at least a thought) for individuals in our Age of Conformity.
- Author
- G.K. Chesterton
- Format
- hardcover
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Darwen Finlayson Ltd
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780852080108
- Genres
- fiction, literature, mystery, catholic
- Release date
- 1968
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