| Description |
1 online resource (770 pages) |
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The early days -- Publishing and engagement -- Marriage and fame -- Controversy -- Dickens -- Orthodoxy -- Shaw and Beaconsfield -- Father Brown and the Marconi scandal -- The Victorian compromise and illness -- War and travel -- America and conversion -- The everlasting man -- Distributism and apologetics -- Rome and America again -- The last years |
| Summary |
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 th |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936.
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| SUBJECT |
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 fast |
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Chesterton, Gilbert K. swd |
| Subject |
Authors, English -- Biography -- 20th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Authors, English
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Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biografieën (vorm)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0191619000 |
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9780191806582 |
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0191806587 |
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9780191619007 |
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