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Defiant joy : the remarkable life & impact of G.K. Chesterton / by Kevin Belmonte.

By: Publication details: Nashville : Thomas Nelson, 2011.Description: xviii, 318 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781595552013
Other title:
  • Life and remarkable impact of G.K. Chesterton
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 828/.91209 B 22
LOC classification:
  • PR4453.C4 Z534 2011
Contents:
My earliest path -- From childhood to boyhood -- A perfect storm -- And now for a career -- An "artist" in words -- Eternal ideas -- Varied types -- The tower that strikes the stars -- Heretics and first things -- No definite image of good -- Mr. Dickens's champion -- Why orthodoxy matters -- A melodramatic sort of moonshine -- Chesterton, Mencken, and Shaw -- The advent of Father Brown -- The great ballad -- Mr. Shaw's insistent demand -- The toast of London -- A near closing of the curtain -- What I saw in America -- Saint Francis -- Over to you, Mr. Wells -- Chaucer -- The pillar of the Apennines -- Men must endure their going hence -- Epilogue -- A Chesterton timeline.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

My earliest path -- From childhood to boyhood -- A perfect storm -- And now for a career -- An "artist" in words -- Eternal ideas -- Varied types -- The tower that strikes the stars -- Heretics and first things -- No definite image of good -- Mr. Dickens's champion -- Why orthodoxy matters -- A melodramatic sort of moonshine -- Chesterton, Mencken, and Shaw -- The advent of Father Brown -- The great ballad -- Mr. Shaw's insistent demand -- The toast of London -- A near closing of the curtain -- What I saw in America -- Saint Francis -- Over to you, Mr. Wells -- Chaucer -- The pillar of the Apennines -- Men must endure their going hence -- Epilogue -- A Chesterton timeline.

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