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1914 novel by G. K. Chesterton

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The Flying Inn
First UK edition
Author	G. K. Chesterton
Language	English
Genre	Speculative fiction, adventure, satire
Publisher	John Lane (US) Methuen (UK)
Publication date	1914
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	320

The Flying Inn is a 1914 novel by English writer G. K. Chesterton. It is set in a future England where the temperance movement has allowed a bizarre form of Progressive Islam to dominate the political and social life of the country. Because of this, alcohol sales to the poor are effectively prohibited, while the rich can get alcoholic drinks "under a medical certificate". The plot centres on the adventures of Humphrey Pumph (see also the Humphrey pump) and Captain Patrick Dalroy, who roam the country in their cart with a barrel of rum in an attempt to evade prohibition, exploiting loopholes in the law to temporarily prevent the police taking action against them. Eventually the heroes and their followers foil an attempted coup by an Islamic military force.

The novel includes the poem, The Rolling English Road. The poem was first published under the title A Song of Temperance Reform in the New Witness in 1913.

References

Bleiler, Everett (1948). The Checklist of Fantastic Literature (1st ed.). Chicago: Shasta Publishers. p. 76. LCCN 48006709. OCLC 1113926.
Clark, Stephen R. L. (2006). G.K. Chesterton: thinking backward, looking forward. Templeton Foundation Press. p. 65. ISBN 978-1-59947-104-4.

External links

The Flying Inn at Project Gutenberg
Internet Archive version
Google Books version (full view)
The Flying Inn public domain audiobook at LibriVox
Iain Benson(ed)"The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton"

v t e G. K. Chesterton
Bibliography
Poetry	The Ballad of the White Horse (1911) "The Rolling English Road" (1913) "A Ballade of Suicide" (1915) "Lepanto" (1915)
Novels	The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904) The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) The Ball and the Cross (1909) Manalive (1912) The Flying Inn (1914) The Return of Don Quixote (1927)
Short stories	The Club of Queer Trades (1905) "The Blue Cross" (1910) "The Hammer of God" (1911) The Sign of the Broken Sword (1911) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1922) The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926) The Poet and the Lunatics (1929) Four Faultless Felons (1930) The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond (1936)
Non-fiction	Heretics (1905) Orthodoxy (1908) The New Jerusalem (1920) Fancies Versus Fads (1923) The Everlasting Man (1925)
Adaptations	Father Brown, Detective (1934) The Adventures of Father Brown (1945) Father Brown (1954) The Black Sheep (1960) He Can't Stop Doing It (1962) Father Brown (1966–1972) Father Brown (1974) Pfarrer Braun (2003–2014) Father Brown (2013–present) list of episodes Sister Boniface Mysteries (2022–present)
Others	Father Brown Flambeau G. K.'s Weekly Magic
Related	Frances Blogg (wife) Cecil Chesterton (brother) The Chesterton Review Chesterton Academy

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