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"Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction ... for fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it."
#OTD in 1903.
The first of G. K. Chesterton's short stories in the series The Club of Queer Trades, "The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown", appears in Harper's Weekly.
Each story in the collection is centered on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Club_of_Queer_Trades
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1696
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#OTD in 1903.
The first of G. K. Chesterton's short stories in the series The Club of Queer Trades, "The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown", appears in Harper's Weekly.
Each story in the collection is centered on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Club_of_Queer_Trades
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1696
#books #literature