The Defendant: (G.K. Chesterton Classics Collection)

Among these stories there are a certain number which deal sympathetically with the adventures of robbers, outlaws and pirates, which present in a dignified and romantic light thieves and murderers like Dick Turpin and Claude Duval. That is to say, they do precisely the same thing as Scott's 'Ivanhoe, ' Scott's 'Rob Roy, ' Scott's 'Lady of the Lake, ' Byron's 'Corsair, ' Wordsworth's 'Rob Roy's Grave, ' Stevenson's 'Macaire, ' Mr. Max Pemberton's 'Iron Pirate, ' and a thousand more works dis...