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G. K. Chesterton - A Biography (Hardcover)
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G. K. Chesterton - A Biography (Hardcover)
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G. K. Chesterton is remembered as a brilliant creator of nonsense
and satirical verse, author of the Father Brown stories and the
innovative novel, The Man who was Thursday, and yet today he is not
counted among the major English novelists and poets. However, this
major new biography argues that Chesterton should be seen as the
successor of the great Victorian prose writers, Carlyle, Arnold,
Ruskin, and above all Newman.
Chesterton's achievement as one of the great English literary
critics has not hitherto been fully recognized, perhaps because his
best literary criticism is of prose rather than poetry. Ian Ker
remedies this neglect, paying particular attention to Chesterton's
writings on the Victorians, especially Dickens. As a social and
political thinker, Chesterton is contrasted here with contemporary
intellectuals like Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells in his championing
of democracy and the masses. Pre-eminently a controversialist, as
revealed in his prolific journalistic output, he became a
formidable apologist for Christianity and Catholicism, as well as a
powerful satirist of anti-Catholicism.
This full-length life of G. K. Chesterton is the first
comprehensive biography of both the man and the writer. It draws on
many unpublished letters and papers to evoke Chesterton's joyful
humour, his humility and affinity to the common man, and his love
of the ordinary things of life.
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