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Books : Religion & Spirituality : Christianity : Authors, A-Z : ( C ) : Chesterton, G. K.
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Chesterton asserts that Dickens was a great man and a great writer in this fascinating literary biography. He competently defends Dickens against the charges that he exaggerated too much and examines his writing in careful relation to his life. Chesterton's insight into Dickens and his work is an excellent introduction to the writing of one of the most important literary figures of English Literature.
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A refreshing new collection of Chesterton's writings on religion, Christianity, miracles, rationalism, and the Catholic Church. The brilliant essays in this volume preceded and inspired the later apologetic works of C.S. Lewis, and are as relevant (and joyfully devastating) to the "new" atheism of Hitchens and Dawkins, as they were to the materialistic rationalism of a century ago.
Proofread and elegantly formatted for the Kindle, this book is a notable improvement on the various error-riddled public domain texts previously available on Amazon.
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George Bernard Shaw called him a colossal genius. Pope Pius XI called him a devoted son of the Holy Church and a gifted defender of the faith. A dominant figure in English letters during the first third of this century, G.K. Chesterton was a prolific writer whose great range of personal interest and intellectual involvement makes his writings of almost universal appeal. Though he produced nearly 100 books in his lifetime, Chesterton considered himself primarily a journalist, writing articles for 75 different British periodicals and for about 50 different American magazines. His huge literary output includes social commentary, detective stories, biographies, religious and philosophical argumentation, humorous writing and nonsense verse, economic and political writings, literary criticism, novels and short stories, plays and poetry. This anthology, which is arranged thematically, features a judicious selection from a wide range of Chesterton's works, including excerpts from Orthodoxy, a selection of his poems-humorous, religious, and social/political-and passages from the popular Father Brown detective stories. Also included are excerpts from Chesterton's many essays, on subjects ranging from Catholic schools, women's rights, and heresies, to fairy tales, advertisements, and George Washington and the cherry tree. A selection of short quotations displays the epigrammatic wit that plays through all of Chesterton's writings and makes him a joy to read. Witty, wise, and eminently quotable, Chesterton not only addressed the time in which he lived, but continues to speak significantly to our time. This volume, which culls much of the best and the brightest from his works, will delight Chesterton aficionados as well as all who appreciate likable genius. ROBERT KNILLE was a lifelong Chesterton enthusiast. About ten years ago he founded the first eastern chapter of the Chesterton Society, and he remained its chairman until shortly before his death in 1983. Knille authored numerous articles on religion and literature as well as a bibliography of U.S. publications about Chesterton.
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Volumes XXVII through XXXVII of The Collected Works Of G. K. Chesterton are collected columns from The Illustrated London News. Thesevolumes contain all of Chesterton s weekly columns beginning in1905. Volume XXIX contains 1911-1913. Though written for his very popular newspaper column almost one hundredyears ago, Chesterton s timeless wisdom is just as relevant today as itwas then.Volume XXIX includes: FashionableSuffragettes and the Truly Feminine, Bad Sentences and Bad Theology,Capitalism and Marriage, The Failure of Words in Our Time, OnGlorifying Divorce, The Modern Anti-Democracy, Modern Womanhood, TooMuch Vox Populi?, The Curse of Labels, The Broadening Down ofDemocracy, Science in America, The Causes of War, On BeingOld-Fashioned, and The Right to Denounce Things. Author: G. K. Chesterton Contents: Columns from Illustrated London News, 1911-1913 Format: 600 pages, paperback Publisher: Ignatius Press ISBN: 9780898701722
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"These tales concern the doing of things recognised as impossible to do; impossible to believe." Tales of the Long Bow are eight ingenious episodes concerning people who do things that are proverbially impossible. The teasing intricacy of their interlocking narratives heightens the excitement, yet the tales are simple and vivid. Never far from the politics and economics of contemporary Britain, they contain subtle and engaging portraits of leading figures such as Lord Eden, Harold and Oliver Green.
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Volumes XXVII through XXXVII of The Collected Works Of G. K. Chesterton are collected columns from The Illustrated London News. These volumes contain all of Chesterton s weekly columns beginning in 1905. Volume XXVII contains 1905-1907. Though written for his very popular newspaper column over one hundred years ago, Chesterton s timeless wisdom is just as relevant today as it was then. Author: G. K. Chesterton Contents: Columns from Illustrated London News, 1905-1907 Format: 620 pages, paperback Publisher: Ignatius Press ISBN: 9780898701197
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This is the second volume of Chesterton's collected articles from the Illustrated London News, 1908-1910. They have never appeared in book form before. Chesterton lovers will be delighted to find this treasure filled with jewels quite the match of his best writing elsewhere.
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Here under one cover are the complete texts and sketches of G. K. Chesterton's first three books of poetry: Greybeards at Play (1900), The Wild Knight and Other Poems (1900) and The Ballad of the White Horse (1911).The poet W. H. Auden said that Greybeards at Play, "contains some of the best pure nonsense verse in English.... Surely, it is high time such enchanting pieces should be made readily available.... By natural gifts, Chesterton was, I think, essentially a comic poet."
In The Wild Knight Chesterton is asking an important question, Can someone be so evil that they are unreachable by anything someone else might do or say?
The playful humor of Greybeards contrasts with the high seriousness of Chesterton's great Tolkien-like epic, The Ballad of the White Horse. During one of the darkest moments of World War II The Times of London would quote these words from it: "I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet, And the sea rises higher." They expressed better than anything else the great trials England was facing just five years after Chesterton's death."
With his great epic, Chesterton had done with English history what Tolkien would later do with his imaginary history of Middle-earth. He had molded events and place them in a new light to give meaning and purpose to history. As Chesterton would note on the epic's title page, quoting from the King Alfred of the tale, "I say, as do all Christian men, that there is a divine purpose that rules and not fate."
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Volumes XXVII through XXXVII of The Collected Works Of G. K. Chesterton are columns from The Illustrated London News. Thesevolumes contain all of Chesterton s weekly columns beginning in1905. Volume XXXI contains 1917-1919. Though written for his very popular newspaper column over ninetyyears ago, Chesterton s timeless wisdom is just as relevant today as itwas then.The 130 columns in Volume XXXI include ThePoetry of Commonplace Things, The Rhetoric of Pacifism, Socialism andIndividualism, The Morality of Melodrama, Despotism and Democracies,The Rails of Reality, Patriotism Become True, Facts versus FalseHistory, The Fury of America, Relativity against Reason, and Controlling the Common Man. Author: G. K. Chesterton Contents: Columns from Illustrated London News, 1917-1919 Format: 700 pages, paperback Publisher: Ignatius Press ISBN: 9780898702385
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Volumes XXVII through XXXVII of The Collected Works Of G. K. Chesterton are collected columns from The Illustrated London News. Thesevolumes contain all of Chesterton s weekly columns beginning in1905. Volume XXX contains 1914-1916. Though written for his very popular newspaper column almost one hundredyears ago, Chesterton s timeless wisdom is just as relevant today as itwas then.The 130 columns in Volume XXX include: The Duties of a Citizen, Being Too Serious About Animals, Feminist Ideas About Women, The Idols of Agnostics, Pride The Supreme Evil, The Dead Words of Pacifists, False Mirror of Success, Two Creeds in Collision, My Country, Right or Wrong?, and A Peace Worthy of War. Author: G. K. Chesterton Contents: Columns from Illustrated London News, 1914-1916 Format: 600 pages, paperback Publisher: Ignatius Press ISBN: 9780898701975
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This seventh volume of the Collected works of G.K. Chesterton brings together three of his most acclaimed works of fiction with introduction and notes by Chesterton scholar Iain Benson. The Ball and the Cross chronicles a hot dispute between two Scotsmen, a Roman Catholic and an atheist,whose fanatically held opinions inspire a host of comic adventures. Thestorys allegorical levels vigorously explore the debate between theismand atheism. Manalive pits agroup of disillusioned young people against Mr. Innocent Smith, abubbly, high-spirited gentleman who prompts his newfound acquaintancesto recognize that life is worth living. The Flying Innis a satirical romp in which Chesterton inveighs against prohibition,vegetarianism, theosophy, and other oppressive forms of modernity. Author: G. K. Chesterton Contents: The Ball and the Cross, Manalive, The Flying Inn Format: 666 pages, paperback Publisher: Ignatius Press ISBN: 9780898709988
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A priceless collection of wit and wisdom from one of the greatest essayists of all time.
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Throughout the 1920 s and 1930 s, Chesterton s travels included Jerusalem, Ireland, North America and Rome. The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. XXI, contains his reflections on his 1921 and 1930-31 tours of North Americaand his 1929 trip to Rome. Readers will enjoy his impressions of cityskyscrapers, rural America, and the politics of Washington, as well ashis views of Pope Pius XI, the Eternal City, Mussolini and Fascism. The appendix gives the newspaper accounts of Chesterton s 1921 trip toAmerica. It contains generous excerpts of the speeches, interviews andcomments G.K.C. made during his tour. Author: G. K. Chesterton Contents: What I Saw in America, The Resurrection of Rome, Sidelights Format: 700 pages, paperback Publisher: Ignatius Press ISBN: 9780898702729
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In The Collected Works Of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. XVIII, Chesterton exhibits his perception of character and motive through literary criticism and biography. Chesterton s warm affection for Stevenson and Chaucer is evident in his volumes on them. He was heavily influenced by the manliness, courage, and hope in Stevenson s romances. Polemical literary criticism flourishes in Chesterton s Chaucer, a tribute to medieval England and Chaucer s literature. His monographs on Tolstoy and Carlyle reveal keen insights into two very different writers, thus providing four unique studies that teach the distinctions between normality and abnormality in literature and life. Author: G. K. Chesterton Contents: Robert Louis Stevenson, Chaucer, Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Carlyle Format: 450 pages, paperback Publisher: Ignatius Press ISBN: 9780898703740
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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - I originally called this book "What is Wrong," and it would have satisfied your sardonic temper to note the number of social misunderstandings that arose from the use of the title. Many a mild lady visitor opened her eyes when I remarked casually, "I have been doing 'What is Wrong' all this morning." And one minister of religion moved quite sharply in his chair when I told him (as he understood it) that I had to run upstairs and do what was wrong, but should be down again in a minute. Exactly of what occult vice they silently accused me I cannot conjecture, but I know of what I accuse myself; and that is, of having written a very shapeless and inadequate book, and one quite unworthy to be dedicated to you. As far as literature goes, this book is what is wrong and no mistake. It may seem a refinement of insolence to present so wild a composition to one who has recorded two or three of the really impressive visions of the moving millions of England. You are the only man alive who can make the map of England crawl with life; a most creepy and enviable accomplishment. Why then should I trouble you with a book which, even if it achieves its object (which is monstrously unlikely) can only be a thundering gallop of theory?
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Chesterton's classic three-act fantasy play. This play was originally presented under the management of Kenelm Foss at The Little Theatre, London, on November 7, 1913.
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This is a new collection of humorous and serious gems from Chesterton's writing containing previously unpublished work. G.K. Chesterton was a consummately witty man. Bevis Hillier draws on his most humorous epigrams and more serious extracts not only from his most popular works, the "Father Brown" stories, but his contributions to the "Illustrated London News", "GK's Weekly" and his numerous novels, poetry, essays and tracts on a vast array of subjects. These pieces shine a light into the margins of Chesterton's work and give a sense of the distinctive flavour of his mind. In addition this book will include previously unpublished letters of a flirtatious nature. Hillier, the acclaimed biographer of John Betjeman, considers what it was that made Chesterton such a complex and fascinating character. Richly illustrated throughout with Chesterton's own drawings, this will be a book for Chesterton fans everywhere.