{"product_id":"wanderings","title":"Wanderings Over the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eGilbert Keith Chesterton\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e needs no introduction. A master of the literary craft, he wrote over eighty books, hundreds of poems and short stories, and thousands of essays. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWanderings over the World\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e collects three early works—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Napoleon of Notting Hill\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Man Who Was Thursday\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Ballad of the White Horse\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—that capture his brilliant vision of God, man, and the cosmos, and his power to bring that vision to life with the written word.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Napoleon of Notting Hill\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e promises a “banquet of humour” when Auberon Quin takes the throne of England and re-establishes the provincial pomp and status of the boroughs of London. But the joke is undone when the guileless Adam Wayne declares war rather than cede Notting Hill to the armies of industrial expansion. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Man Who Was Thursday\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a political thriller, detective story, and metaphysical treatise, all tied into one. Gabriel Syme’s infiltration of an anarchist organization sets off a series of bewildering events that bring hunter and hunted together in a terrifying conclusion. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Ballad of the White Horse\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e recounts King Alfred the Great’s defeat of the Danish army at the Battle of Ethandun. A poetic tapestry of theology, allegory, and history, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Ballad\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e endures as one of the greatest English epic poems of all time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52422725927193,"sku":"WOTW","price":32.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/0989\/5705\/files\/wow.jpg?v=1780461525","url":"https:\/\/www.fidelitybooks.com.au\/products\/wanderings","provider":"Fidelity Books and Pieties","version":"1.0","type":"link"}