The Flying Inn (Summarized Edition)

The Flying Inn (1914) is G. K. Chesterton's picaresque satire, set in a near-future England where the ascetic reformer Lord Ivywood imposes near prohibition. Armed with a signboard, a cask of rum, and a wheel of cheese, innkeeper Humphrey Pump and Captain Patrick Dalroy turn Britain into their moving tavern, defending convivial liberty with song and mischief. Interleaving ballads with burlesque ep...