Twelve Types: (G K Chesterton Classics Collection)

Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:Twelve Types: (G K Chesterton Classics Collection)ISBN13:9781508732778ISBN10:1508732779Author:Chesterton, G. K. (Author)Description:(This is a RePrint) - This Clear And Fine Perception Of What May Be Called The An Sthetic Element In The Victorian Era Was, Undoubtedly, The Work Of A Great Reformer: It Requires A Fine Effort Of The Imagination To See An Evil That Surrounds Us On Every Side The Manner In Which Morris Carried Out His Crusade May, Considering The Circumstances, Be Called Triumphant Our Carpets Began To Bloom Under Our Feet Like The Meadows In Spring, And Our Hitherto Prosaic Stools And Sofas Seemed Growing Legs And Arms At Their Own Wild Will An Element Of Freedom And Rugged Dignity Came In With Plain And Strong Ornaments Of Copper And Iron So Delicate And Universal Has Been The Revolution In Domestic Art That Almost Every Family In England Has Had Its Taste Cunningly And Treacherously Improved, And If We Look Back At The Early Victorian Drawing-Rooms It Is Only To Realise The Strange But Essential Truth That Art, Or Human Decoration, Has, Nine Times Out Of Ten In History, Made Things Uglier Than They Were Before, From The 'Coiffure' Of A Papuan Savage To The Wall-Paper Of A British Merchant In 1830 Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date:2015-03-04Weight:0.2 lbsDimensions:0.12'' H x 9.02'' L x 5.98'' WNumber of Pages:58Language:English

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