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. ^ a b Tibbetts, John C. (2021). The Dark Side of G.K. Chesterton: Gargoyles and Grotesques. McFarland. p. 73. ISBN 9781476643977. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
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