The Flying Inn
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| - | | name = The Flying Inn | ||
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| - | | image = File:TheFlyingInn.jpg | ||
| - | | caption = First UK edition | ||
| - | | author = [[G. K. Chesterton]] | ||
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| - | | country = United Kingdom | ||
| - | | language = English | ||
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| - | | genre = [[Speculative fiction]], [[adventure fiction|adventure]], [[satire]] | ||
| - | | publisher = [[John Lane (publisher)|John Lane]] (US)<br>[[Methuen Publishing|Methuen]] (UK) | ||
| - | | release_date = 1914 | ||
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| - | | media_type = Print ([[Hardcover|Hardback]]) | ||
| - | | pages = 320 | ||
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| '''''The Flying Inn''''' is a [[novel]] by [[G. K. Chesterton]], first published in 1914. 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 [[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 Flying Inn''''' is a [[novel]] by [[G. K. Chesterton]], first published in 1914. 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 [[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. | ||
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"In the past, like today, warnings of Islamic Europe, of Eurabia, had a powerful moral and political content. ... In his fantasy The Flying Inn (1914), England's secular elites delude themselves into seeing Islam as progressive: they see it as ..."--God's Continent: Christianity, Islam, and Europe's Religious Crisis (2007) Philip Jenkins |
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The Flying Inn is a novel by G. K. Chesterton, first published in 1914. 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 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.
