What's Wrong With the World
by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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I originally called this book "What is Wrong," and it would have satisfied your sardonic temper to note the number of social misunderstandings that arose from the use of the title. Many a mild lady visitor opened her eyes when I remarked casually, I have been doing 'What is Wrong' all this morning. And one minister of religion moved quite sharply in his chair when I told him (as he understood it) that I had to run upstairs and do what was wrong, but should be down again in a minute.
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What's Wrong With the World
December 1990, Sherwood Sugden & Co
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in English
0893850373 9780893850371
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