In Chesterton's witty and paradoxical style, the book criticizes the uniformity and lack of spontaneity and joy in modern society. It begins by contrasting modern sports, which have strict rules, with pre-modern sports, which people invented spontaneously. It goes on through a number of examples, such as the uniformity of London rowhouses, which do not express the character of their owner.
It concludes by advocating distributism, which calls for distributing ownership of small property as widely as possible. Everyone should have their own garden to work on as they please.
In a way, distributism has the same goal as socialism: it aims at removing the stranglehold that large scale property has over ordinary people's lives. But its method is the opposite: to give everyone property rather than to nationalize property. Chesterton criticizes the drabness and uniformity that socialism imposes and celebrates the joyfulness and diversity that would result if people managed their own small property.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936) was one of the best known and best loved British writers of the early twentieth century - in the same league with H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw. He is famous for books on society and religion, such as Heretics and Orthodoxy, for novels, such as The Man Who Was Thursday, for his Father Brown series of detective stories, and for his many articles and essays.
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