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The Trees of Pride by G. K. Chesterton
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The Trees of Pride (1922)

by G. K. Chesterton

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Další z Chestertonových "detektivek", varujících různým způsobem klasickou detektivkovou formu a zároveň, sdělující v autorových očích určité podstatné a zásadní postřehy a myšlenky. Příběhy rozhodně nejsou tak dobré jako ty Brownovy, ale jejich literární kvality, stejně jako míru humoru jest dost těžké hodnotit. Český překlad z dvacátých let je opět neobyčejně mizerný... ( )
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"We wish you'd get rid of what you've got here, sir," he observed, digging doggedly. "Nothing'll grow right with them here." "Shrubs!" said the Squire, laughing. "You don't call the peacock trees shrubs, do you? Fine tall trees -- you ought to be proud of them." "Ill weeds grow apace," observed the gardener. "Weeds can grow as houses when somebody plants them." Then he added: "Him that sowed tares in the Bible, Squire." "Oh, blast your --" began the Squire, and then replaced the more apt and alliterative word "Bible" by the general word "superstition." He was himself a robust rationalist, but he went to church to set his tenants an example. Of what, it would have puzzled him to say.

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