Tales of the Long Bow

Name: Tales of the Long Bow
Author: G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton

Eight tall tales of Captain Hood, Colonel Crane and the League of the Long Bow: a society of Englishmen who pledge to tell outrageous lies that turn out to be true, each a fable about the English countryside, property and the peril of progress. Chesterton's comic distributist romance.

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