The Club of Queer Trades
The Club of Queer Trades is a collection of stories by G.K. Chesterton first published in 1905. Each story in the collection is centered on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means (a "queer trade"). • Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Contents: The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown The Painful Fall of a Great Reputation The Awful Reason of the Vicar's Visit The Singular Speculation of the House-agent The Noticeable Conduct of Professor Chadd The Eccentric Seclusion of the Old Lady
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- Chesterton is mostly in the US public domain now (and wholly PD in death plus 70 regions), so we’ve got a decent selection of his work available for free at Standard Ebooks. I have a soft spot for The Club of Queer Trades if you’re looking for a recommendation.
- I recently finished reading Chesterton's "The Club of Queer Trades", and one of the jobs in there was a paid dinner guest who even set up the conversation so the client could make witty remarks.
