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G. K. Chesterton: A Biography
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full-length life of G K Chesterton is the first comprehensive biography of both the man and the writer It draws on many unpublished letters and papers to evoke Chesterton&s joyful humour his humility and affinity to the common man and his love of the ordinary things of life
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full-length life of G K Chesterton is the first comprehensive biography of both the man and the writer It draws on many unpublished letters and papers to evoke Chesterton&s joyful humour his humility and affinity to the common man and his love of the ordinary things of life
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