Gilbert
Keith
CHESTERTON (1874
–
1936)
Born in London, studied at the Slade School of Art, then turned to writing. He wrote: The Innocence of Father Brown (1911), Wisdom of Father Brown and other novels.
Born in London, studied at the Slade School of Art, then turned to writing. He wrote: The Innocence of Father Brown (1911), Wisdom of Father Brown and other novels.
'The Man Who Was Thursday'
THE suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and ragged as a cloud of sunset. It was built of a bright brick throughout; its sky-line was fantastic, and even its ground plan was wild. It had been the outburst of a speculative builder, faintly tinged with art, who called its architecture sometimes Elizabethan and sometimes Queen Anne, apparently under the impression that the two sovereigns were identical. It was described with some justice as an artistic colony, though it never in any definable way produced any art.
THE suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and ragged as a cloud of sunset. It was built of a bright brick throughout; its sky-line was fantastic, and even its ground plan was wild. It had been the outburst of a speculative builder, faintly tinged with art, who called its architecture sometimes Elizabethan and sometimes Queen Anne, apparently under the impression that the two sovereigns were identical. It was described with some justice as an artistic colony, though it never in any definable way produced any art.
