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Classic Reading Essays · G. K. Chesterton Complete

Tremendous Trifles

Complete reading · 39 chapters and the preface · about 5½ hours

Chesterton’s 1909 essays on the wonder hiding in ordinary things.

A piece of chalk, a cab ride, a wet afternoon in bed, a toy theatre, whatever he happened to find in his pocket: in each of these short essays G. K. Chesterton takes something small and looks at it until it turns out to be enormous. They first appeared in the Daily News and were collected in 1909. Each chapter runs about 7 to 10 minutes.

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