The Man Who Knew Too Much - G K Chesterton - Books -  - 9798650165248 - June 1, 2020
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The Man Who Knew Too Much

"He was unquestionably dead. The blood flowed in the grass from a hopelessly fatal fracture at the back of the skull; but the face, which was turned to the sun, was uninjured and strangely arresting in itself. It was one of those cases of a strange face so unmistakable as to feel familiar. We feel, somehow, that we ought to recognize it, even though we do not. It was of the broad, square sort with great jaws, almost like that of a highly intellectual ape; the wide mouth shut so tight as to be traced by a mere line; the nose short with the sort of nostrils that seem to gape with an appetite for the air. The oddest thing about the face was that one of the eyebrows was cocked up at a much sharper angle than the other. March thought he had never seen a face so naturally alive as that dead one. And its ugly energy seemed all the stranger for its halo of hoary hair. Some papers lay half fallen out of the pocket, and from among them March extracted a card-case. He read the name on the card aloud..."

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released June 1, 2020
ISBN13 9798650165248
Pages 182
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 11 mm   ·   272 g
Language English  

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