This is very good news! A new edition of
The Coloured Lands
will be released this March by Dover Publications. The book by G.K. Chesterton was originally published posthumously in 1938, and I think it has been out of print since that time. So if you already have one, as I do, you probably keep it in that special bookcase that the younger members of your household are not allowed browse without permission; this in hope of keeping babies from tearing pages, and to keep chocolate milk from spoiling it. But these
Fairy Stories, Comic Verse and Fantastic Pictures are a fun introduction to GKC for young readers. My 11 year old enjoyed reading his first Chesterton stories that Nancy C. Brown edited and republished two winters ago,
The Father Brown Reader: Stories from Chesterton
. Since then he's searched for more Chesterton on his level and poked through a bit of Collected Works Vol 14:
Short Stories, Fairy Tales and Mystery Stories. I think he'll be getting this new edition of
The Coloured Lands for his 12th birthday.
Ah that is excellent news kind sir! I extremely fortunately managed to pick up an original copy ( with original dust jacket) in a splendid second-hand bookshop in the fair city of Arundel much beloved of Belloc, just before Christmas.
ReplyDeleteA rollocking compendium it is too!