- Criticism, English Authors, English essays, Essays
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere rollicking journalist, he was actually a prolific and gifted writer in virtually every area of literature. A man of strong opinions and enormously talented at defending them, his exuberant personality nevertheless allowed him to maintain warm friendships with people - such as George Bernard Shaw and H.
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Spare, character-led, cool and warm.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- First published
- 1905
- Pages
- 166
- Publisher
- IndyPublish.com, Xist Publishing, Independently Published
- Editions
- 551
- Language
- cat, Japanese, German, French
- ISBN
- 9798486372636
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“NOTHING more strangely indicates an enormous and silent evil of modern society than the extraordinary use which is made nowadays of the word "orthodox."”
**Gilbert Keith Chesterton** was an English writer, lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and Christian apologist.
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