Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: foxed and worn boards; binding remains tight, clean text.
Few literary lives are as richly contradictory and compulsively readable as that of Gilbert Keith Chesterton — journalist, poet, theologian, and one of the most brilliantly provocative minds of the early twentieth century. Maisie Ward's landmark biography chronicles the life of this colossus of English letters from his bohemian youth in London to his celebrated conversion to Roman Catholicism, presenting the full panorama of a man whose wit was as formidable as his faith, and whose debates with Shaw, Wells, and Belloc defined an era of intellectual combat. Ward, herself a Catholic intellectual of considerable standing and co-founder of the very publishing house that brought this volume to press, writes with the authority of personal acquaintance and the rigour of a dedicated scholar, drawing on correspondence, interviews, and unpublished papers to construct an intimate yet sweeping portrait. The result is not merely a record of dates and publications, but a sympathetic yet clear-eyed examination of Chesterton's philosophy — his Distributism, his apologia, and the paradoxical thinking that underpins masterworks like Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. For anyone who has ever been seduced by a Chesterton epigram and wondered at the mind behind it, this biography is an essential and revelatory key.
Author: Maisie Ward
Format: Hardback
Published: 1944, Sheed & Ward
Genre: Biography
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: foxed and worn boards; binding remains tight, clean text.
Few literary lives are as richly contradictory and compulsively readable as that of Gilbert Keith Chesterton — journalist, poet, theologian, and one of the most brilliantly provocative minds of the early twentieth century. Maisie Ward's landmark biography chronicles the life of this colossus of English letters from his bohemian youth in London to his celebrated conversion to Roman Catholicism, presenting the full panorama of a man whose wit was as formidable as his faith, and whose debates with Shaw, Wells, and Belloc defined an era of intellectual combat. Ward, herself a Catholic intellectual of considerable standing and co-founder of the very publishing house that brought this volume to press, writes with the authority of personal acquaintance and the rigour of a dedicated scholar, drawing on correspondence, interviews, and unpublished papers to construct an intimate yet sweeping portrait. The result is not merely a record of dates and publications, but a sympathetic yet clear-eyed examination of Chesterton's philosophy — his Distributism, his apologia, and the paradoxical thinking that underpins masterworks like Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. For anyone who has ever been seduced by a Chesterton epigram and wondered at the mind behind it, this biography is an essential and revelatory key.