Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Das fliegende Wirtshaus
Für wen es gedacht ist
For readers who love comic fantasy, English country scenes, and arguments told through songs and slapstick. Fans of Chesterton's Father Brown will also find much to enjoy.
Worum es in diesem Buch geht
The Flying Inn is a comic novel by G. K. Chesterton, published in 1914. It imagines an England in the near future, where a powerful politician has brought in a strange mixture of reforms. Among them is a ban on the sale of drink unless a pub has a licence, and licences are nearly impossible to get. The book is fantasy, satire and adventure, with songs scattered through it.
Chesterton wrote it as a warning and as a joke at the same time. He feared that rich and clever men would decide how ordinary people should live, and that England would drift under the influence of fashionable ideas from abroad. What you get is a chase across the English countryside, a cart carrying a barrel of rum and a great cheese, and a sign that cannot be taxed because it is always on the move. Let us begin with the two men who start the chase.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1An England where inns are doomedFree
- 2Humphrey Hump and a barrel on the run
- 3Songs, cheese and the road
- 4Misysra Ammon and the new fashion
- 5A poet, a lady and a tangle of loves
- 6What the story is really about
- 7How Chesterton tells it
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An England where inns are doomed
The story opens in an England that looks much like the real one, but the law has changed. A reform movement has made it very hard for an ordinary inn to sell beer or wine. The reformers talk of health, order and progress, and they are backed by money and by influential friends.
The best-known figure on this side is Lord Ivywood, a rising politician. He is polished, clever and proud, and he believes he knows what is good for everyone else. He is drawn to ideas from the East and treats the old English habits of the common people as something to be cleaned away.
Against him stand plain people who love their local inn. They are not scholars or politicians. They simply do not want a country where a man must ask permission to sit with a drink among friends.
This opening sets the quarrel that drives the book. It is not only about ale. It is about who owns the customs of a country, the people who live them or the experts who plan them. Chesterton makes the point with humour, so the argument never feels like a lecture.
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Questions about Das fliegende Wirtshaus
What is The Flying Inn about?
It is a comic novel about an England where drink is nearly banned by a reforming politician. Two friends travel with a barrel of rum, a cheese and a movable inn sign to keep the old English inn alive.
Who is Lord Ivywood in The Flying Inn?
Lord Ivywood is the main opponent in the story. He is a rich, clever politician who pushes reforms on England and admires foreign fashions, and he stands for rule by experts over ordinary people.
When was The Flying Inn written?
It was published in 1914 and is set in an imagined near future. It is a work of fiction, though it comments on real worries Chesterton had about politics and fashion in his day.
Is The Flying Inn hard to read?
It is lively and easy to follow.
What is the main message of The Flying Inn?
Chesterton argues for the freedom of ordinary people and for old customs against reformers who claim to know best. He makes the case with comedy, verse and paradox instead of plain argument.