The Ballad of the White Horse

G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

CHAPTER I. THE TWO POETS OF SAFFRON PARK THE suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and ragged as a cloud of sunset.

G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

By G. K. Chesterton Contents The Blue Cross The Secret Garden The Queer Feet The Flying Stars ...

G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

I INTRODUCTION IN DEFENCE OF EVERYTHING ELSE THE only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge.

G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

By G.K. Chesterton Prefatory Note: This ballad needs no historical notes, for the simple reason that it does not profess to be historical.

Washington Irving

A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky.

Ayn Rand

PART ONE It is a sin to write this.

Aristophanes

statement is made that it may be rejected.

William Strunk

This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style.