The Man Who Knew Too Much Gk Chesterton Review
 First edition | |
| Author | G. K. Chesterton |
|---|---|
| Land | U.k. |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Detective stories |
| Publisher | Cassell and Company (U.Thousand.) Harper Brothers (U.South.) |
| Publication date | 1922 |
| Media blazon | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 308 |
The Man Who Knew Too Much: And Other Stories (1922) is a book of detective stories past English writer One thousand. One thousand. Chesterton, published in 1922 past Cassell and Company in the United Kingdom, and Harper Brothers in the Usa.[1] [2] [3] [iv] It contains eight connected short stories about "The Man Who Knew As well Much", and unconnected stories featuring other heroes/detectives. The Us edition contains i of these boosted stories: "The Copse of Pride", while the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland edition contains "Copse of Pride" and three shorter stories: "The Garden of Smoke", "The 5 of Swords" and "The Tower of Treason".
First publication [edit]
The stories were first published in Harper'southward Monthly Magazine between April 1920 and June 1922:[5]
- Apr 1920: "The Face up in the Target" ( vol. 140, April 1920, pp. 577–587)
- August 1920: "Ii. The Vanishing Prince, A Story" (August 1920, pp. 320–330)
- September 1920: "Three. The Soul of the Schoolboy" (5. 141, Sept. 1920, pp. 512–521)
- March 1921: "IV. The Bottomless Well" (v. 142, March 1921, pp. 504–514)
- June 1921: "Five. The Fad of the Fisherman" (June 1921, pp. 9–20)
- October 1921: "VI. The Hole in the Wall" (5. 143, Oct. 1921, pp. 572–586)
- May 1922: "Vii. The Temple of Silence" (v. 144, May 1922, pp. 783–798)
- June 1922: "The Vengeance of the Statue" (five. 145, June 1922, pp. 10–22)
Other stories in the book [edit]
Other stories that were added in the volume:
- "The Trees of Pride"
- "The Garden of Fume" (U.K. edition only)
- "The 5 of Swords" (U.K. edition simply)
- "The Tower of Treason" (U.Chiliad. edition only)
The Man Who Knew Too Much stories [edit]
Horne Fisher, "The Man Who Knew Too Much", is the master protagonist of the first eight stories. In the last story, "The Vengeance of the Statue", Fisher notes: "The Prime number Minister is my father's friend. The Foreign Government minister married my sister. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is my first cousin." Because of these intimate relationships with the leading political figures in the land, Fisher knows too much well-nigh the individual politics behind the public politics of the day. This noesis is a brunt to him in the eight stories, because he is able to uncover the injustices and corruptions of the murders in each story, but in most cases the real killer gets abroad with the killing because to bring him openly to justice would create a greater anarchy: starting a state of war, reinciting Irish rebellions or removing public faith in the authorities.
In the seventh story, "The Fad of the Fisherman", the Prime Minister himself is the murderer, who kills the financier whose land house he is visiting because the financier is trying to start a war with Sweden over "the Danish ports". By killing his host, the Prime number Government minister seeks to avoid a state of war in which many more people would die, and the financier would profit at the cost of thousands of lives.
In "The Vanishing Prince", an Irish insubordinate, Michael, is cornered in a belfry, only a inferior policeman named Wilson kills two senior police officers to be promoted in the field to become officer in charge of the case. He then tries to arraign the 2 murders on the rebel to ensure he is hanged. The rebel, otherwise a admirer, is enraged and shoots (only merely wounds) Wilson. Fisher, however, is forced to abort Michael: "Wilson recovered, and we managed to persuade him to retire. Merely we had to pension that damnable murderer more than magnificently than any hero who ever fought for England. I managed to save Michael from the worst, but we had to send that perfectly innocent man to penal servitude for a law-breaking we know he never committed; simply information technology was but afterward that nosotros could connive in a sneakish mode at his escape. And Sir Walter Carey is Prime Minister of this land, which he would probably never have been if the truth had been told of such a horrible scandal in his department. Information technology might accept done for us altogether in Ireland; it would certainly have washed for him. And he is my father'southward oldest friend, and has always smothered me in kindness. I am also tangled upwardly in the whole thing, you see, and I was certainly never born to prepare information technology right."
Fisher is accompanied in the stories by a political announcer, Harold March, simply rather than being his "Watson", the stories are all written in the third person. Less a clumsy foil to reflect Fisher's brilliance, March is more of a sounding board for Fisher to discuss Chesterton'southward paradoxes and philosophy. Apart from the beginning story, in which March meets Fisher, and the final story, the stories take no internal chronology, and so tin can be read in any gild.
Other stories [edit]
The other four stories are similar in mode and format to the master eight, likewise every bit to Chesterton's Father Chocolate-brown stories, but each is unconnected, with its ain protagonist. All the stories are around 20 to 30 pages in length, except "The Trees of Pride", which is 67 pages long in the first edition, and divided into 4 capacity.[ citation needed ]
Movies [edit]
The 1934 moving-picture show and its 1956 remake have zilch except the title in common with this book. Alfred Hitchcock, who directed both films, decided to use the title because he held the motion-picture show rights for some of the book's stories.
Soviet picture show "The Face in the Target" (Litso na misheni) was fabricated in 1979.[6]
References [edit]
- ^ "The Man Who Knew Besides Much". The Hartford Courant. 24 December 1922. p. SM12. ISSN 1047-4153. OCLC 8807834. Retrieved 25 Baronial 2012. (subscription required)
- ^ "On Knowing Likewise Much". Los Angeles Times. 29 March 1925. p. B4. ISSN 0458-3035. OCLC 3638237. Retrieved 25 August 2012. (subscription required)
- ^ "When the political cost of justice is as well loftier". The Washington Times. 16 October 1997. ISSN 0732-8494. OCLC 8472624. Retrieved 25 August 2012. (subscription required)
- ^ "G.K. CHESTERTON, 62, NOTED AUTHOR, DIES; Vivid English Essayist and Master of Paradox Is a Heart Disease Victim". The New York Times. xv June 1936. ISSN 0362-4331. OCLC 1645522. Retrieved 25 August 2012. (subscription required)
- ^ See due east.g. OCLC 367484558.
- ^ "Veidas taikinyje (TV Mini Series 1978– )". IMDb . Retrieved eighteen July 2021.
External links [edit]
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The Homo Who Knew Too Much public domain audiobook at LibriVox - The Human being Who Knew Too Much at Project Gutenberg
- The Trees of Pride at Project Gutenberg
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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Knew_Too_Much_(book)
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