The Man Who Knew Too Much - Hardcover

Chesterton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1613828578 ISBN 13: 9781613828571

Verlag: New Publisher, 2021

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A collection of mysteries featuring an amateur detective, the rather languid Horne Fisher. No connection to the Alfred Hitchcock film of the same name. Show Excerpt oking for them here." March thought of asking him what he was looking for; but, feeling unequal to a technical discussion at least as deep as the deep-sea fishes, he returned to more ordinary topics. "Delightful sort of hole this is," he said. "This little dell and river here. It's like those places Stevenson talks about, where something ought to happen." "I know," answered the other. "I think it's because the place itself, so to speak, seems to happen and not merely to exist. Perhaps that's what old Picasso and some of the Cubists are trying to express by angles and jagged lines. Look at that wall like low cliffs that juts forward just at right angles to the slope of turf sweeping up to it. That's like a silent collision. It's like a breaker and the back-wash of a wave." March looked at the low-browed crag overhanging the green slope and nodded. He was interested in a man who turned so easily from the technicalities of science to those of art; and asked him if he admired the new angular art

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• Verlag: New Publisher
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• ISBN 10: 1613828578
• ISBN 13: 9781613828571
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 164