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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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The Man Who Was Thursday – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Mr. Chesterton is such a past-master in sophistries and casuistry, such a juggler of paradoxes, such an adept in the arts whereby the brilliant and quick-witted pull the wool over the eyes of their less gifted brethren, that he can give full and serious credibility to his tale of the astounding adventures of the detective who was admitted into the innermost circle of anarchists. It is the poetic anarchist, with hair like a Madonna’s and the face of a prize-fighter, who tries (unsuccessfully) to become Thursday.

The Man Who Was Thursday

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The Man Who Was Thursday.

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Heretics – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Mr. Gilbert Chesterton is quite on his own ground in writing essays about about Heretics. Such subjects as Kipling, Shaw, Whistler, H. G. Wells, the new paganism, and the importance of orthodoxy possess brilliancy enough in themselves to satisfy even this arch-priest of brilliancy in style.

Heretics

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Heretics.

ISBN: 9783849678975

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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. Chesterton is often referred to as the “prince of paradox”. Time magazine has observed of … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Club of Queer Trades – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

A collection of a half-dozen stories. Only those persons who have contrived some unusual means of earning a livelihood are eligible for membership in the Club of Queer Trades. One member of this club undertakes to fit every one with a suitable romance; another tries to organise repartee, and to promote table talk and drawing-room conversation, etc.. In depicting the extraordinary adventures and unheard of occupations of this original band, Mr. Chesterton has given us fiction of a highly entertaining type.

The Club of Queer Trades

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The Club of Queer Trades.

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The Napoleon of Notting Hill – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Mad, perfectly mad, madder than the immortal tea-party of Alice, is the thought while reading this novel, or satire, or caricature, or allegory, or farce, or joke, or whatever it is, which Mr. Chesterton has published. When you have finished reading the book, you lay it down and positively gasp, your brain whirls and you stagger with the question whether you have been reading a book, or dreaming a dream. You feel of the book, find it there — very substantial, and then you wonder whether you or the writer is mad: it must be one or the other. Then you remember that Mr. Chesterton is a perfectly sane man, a … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...