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G. K. Chesterton: The Autobiography of G. K. Chesterton
Paperback
Biographies GeneralLiterary Figures
Publisher Price: $18.95
ISBN13: 9781586170714
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Published: Apr 1 2006
Pages: 350
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.86 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Here is a special two-in-one book that is both by G.K. Chesterton and about Chesterton. This volume offers an irresistible opportunity to see who this remarkable man really was. Chesterton was one of the most stimulating and well-loved writers of the 20th century. His 100 books, and hundreds of essays and columns on a great variety of themes have made G.K. Chesterton the most widely quoted writers of modern times.
Here is Chesterton in his own words, in a book he preferred not to write, but did so near the end of his life after much insistence by friends and admirers. Critic Sydney Dark wrote after Chesterton died that perhaps the happiest thing that happened in Gilbert Chesterton's extraordinarily happy life was that his autobiography was finished a few weeks before his death. It is a stimulating, exciting, tremendously interesting book. It is a draught--indeed, several draughts one after the other--of human and literary champagne.
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