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The Ball and the Cross – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The story begins with a theological discussion in an airship, whose owner, Lucifer, nearly runs it against the ball and the cross which surmount St. Paul’s, London. Here he leaves the other occupant of the ship, an old hermit, who appears again at the end of the story. Then the reader begins to follow the adventures of two Scotchmen, Maclan, the romantic highlander and Catholic, and Turnbull, the rational lowlander and atheist. Because the latter has spoken disrespectfully of the Virgin, the former challenges him to fight, and the story becomes the record of their attempt to do so, in spite of the interference of a world which is too indifferent … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Tremendous Trifles – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Mr. Chesterton was unquestionably one of the most brilliant essayists of his days. He is startingly original, for his ideas are always in opposition to those commonly held; but no matter how unheard of and startling his hypotheses, he can back them up with subtle arguments, flashes of humor, and sheer cleverness until the reader is wholly fascinated.

Tremendous Trifles

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Tremendous Trifles.

ISBN: 9783849678432

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Summary of Gilbert Keith Chesterton (from Wikipedia):

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936), better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

All Things Considered – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Mr. G. K. Chesterton, as all the world knows by this time, had the courage of his convictions. He would also, if he had his way, have everyone else possess a similar courage. In his collection of ephemeral papers (he admits their ephemerality) entitled “All Things Considered”, he more than once condemns journalistic anonymity as the shelter of uncourageous and unstraightforward writers. No one can ever charge him with any such skulking behind an anonym or a pseudonym or an editorial “we.” Whatever he has to say he says boldly and unmistakably in the first person singular, and signs his name to it.

All Things Considered

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All Things Considered.

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Orthodoxy – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Chesterton’s characteristics would probably meet with the literary surprise of his life, when, after reading the plain, simple introduction, he would proceed to peruse the pages of Orthodoxy and find himself at once dazzled, perplexed, delighted by this blaze of wit, paradox, epigram, sarcasm, Johnsonian common sense, original ways of looking at things which everybody knows, deep philosophic argument served out in terms of the most commonplace thought, and some of the great truths of reliion tested effectively and favorably by inspecting them upside down. The book is meant to be a companion to Heretics, in which Chesterton attacked some of the current philosophies.

Orthodoxy

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Orthodoxy.

ISBN: 9783849678999

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