Poet and the Lunatics (Chesterton)

Author: G. K. Chesterton

ISBN: 9780486478432

Binding: paperback

Section: Fiction

An eccentric poet acts as spiritual detective in eight thought-provoking tales. Gabriel Gale employs his extraordinary gifts of empathy to solve and prevent crimes perpetrated by madmen. His philosophical police-work forms the basis for captivating explorations of poetry, insanity, and sin — all expressed in the author's characteristic paradoxes and soaring flights of rhetoric.