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Краткое содержание: Несусветные пустяки
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A man in a dark train carriage learns there is a dead man aboard and throws away his cigar.
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- 1909by Г. К. Честертон
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Несусветные пустяки in short
The book makes one argument in thirty-nine small ways. The world is full of wonders, and we miss them because habit blinds us. Chesterton asks us to become pygmies like Peter, to stare at chalk, a train or a lamppost until they speak.
What Несусветные пустяки is about
Can a man find an adventure in his own front garden, on a patch of chalk, or in a dark train carriage with a dead man aboard? G. K. Chesterton thinks he can. In Tremendous Trifles he opens with a fable about two boys and a milkman who happens to be a fairy. One boy wishes to be a giant and finds the world too small. The other wishes to be a pygmy half an inch tall and finds a jungle in a lawn.
Chesterton wrote these thirty-nine short pieces for the Daily News in the early years of the twentieth century. Each starts from some small thing and ends at a large truth about wonder, democracy, fear, home or sin. You get a way of looking, and you get his jokes.
Для кого. Readers who enjoy playful essays, paradox and quick wit will love this book, as will admirers of fairy tales and Dickens. It also suits anyone who wants more from ordinary streets.
The 10 key ideas
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Small things become mountains when you look closely
Chesterton opens with a fable about two boys, Paul and Peter, who live in a model villa with a front garden the size of a dining table. A milkman, who is really a fairy, offers each of them one wish. Paul asks to be a giant. Peter asks to be a pygmy about half an inch tall.
Paul finds the Himalayas as small as the cork rockery at home. Bored, he lies down across several prairies and falls asleep. Peter wanders through a jungle of grass under trees with suns for heads, and he is still crossing that plain.
The boys stand for two schools of modern writing. Kipling leads the giant school, which says we regain our zest by roaming the world. Chesterton calls that being at home nowhere. His own school says to stare at a man in a frock coat until you see the man inside. If critics say he makes mountains out of molehills, he agrees and adds that molehills are mountains.
Shrink your gaze and the nearest thing becomes an adventure.
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What you need is already under you
On a summer morning in Sussex, Chesterton puts six colored chalks in his pocket, begs brown paper from the old woman who owns the kitchen, and climbs onto the downs to draw devils and saints.
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Ordinary life hides unfinished mysteries and sudden lessons
Chesterton says life is puzzling because it holds too many interesting things for us to be interested in any of them.
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Limits create joy and perfection ends the game
Chesterton keeps returning to one idea, that limits give pleasure.
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Spirit comes first and circumstances follow
In The Wind and the Trees, Chesterton sits beneath tossing trees and remembers a boy of four who asked his mother to take away the trees so it would not be windy.
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Fairy tales give children courage to face dragons
In The Dragon's Grandmother, Chesterton meets a rosy young man with a green necktie who thinks fairy tales should not be told to children.
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Ordinary people see what experts have stopped seeing
In The Twelve Men Chesterton is called to a jury because he lives in Battersea.
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To love a place, go to its edge
In The End of the World, Chesterton rides in a carriage from Besançon with a huge French driver.
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Wealth, snobbery and success hide what is human
In The Giant, Chesterton sits in the Temple Gardens at dusk and watches a huge building light two windows like eyes.
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Wonder outlasts fashion in jokes, ghosts and wrong towns
The last essays gather the book's habits.
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What is Tremendous Trifles about?
It is a collection of thirty-nine short essays by G. K. Chesterton about small, everyday things, such as chalk, a cab ride or a toy theatre, and how looking closely at them shows wonder, humor and larger truths.
What does the title Tremendous Trifles mean?
It describes Chesterton's belief that small things are tremendous when truly seen. He says molehills are mountains, and he writes grand essays about humble subjects to prove that ordinary life holds adventure.
Where did the essays first appear and when were they written?
They first appeared as newspaper columns in the Daily News in the early twentieth century. The author calls them a sporadic diary, and several describe real events, such as being thrown from a cab.
Is Tremendous Trifles easy to read?
Each essay is short and stands alone, so you can read one at a time. Chesterton writes with a lively voice, vivid scenes, jokes and plain examples such as trains, cabmen and barbers.
What is the main message of Tremendous Trifles?
Wonder is available to anyone who pays attention. Chesterton argues that gratitude, fresh eyes and respect for ordinary people and common things reveal more of life than travel, expertise or wealth.
Как сослаться на это издание
Chesterton, G. K. Tremendous Trifles. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/tremendous-trifles.
Chesterton, G. K. (2026). Tremendous trifles. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/tremendous-trifles (Original work published 1909)
Chesterton, G. K. Tremendous Trifles. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/tremendous-trifles.
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