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Relatives. Cecil Chesterton (brother) A. K. Chesterton (first cousin, once removed) Signature. Gilbert Keith Chesterton KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English author, philosopher, Christian apologist, and literary and art critic. [2] Chesterton created the fictional priest-detective Father Brown, [3] and wrote on apologetics.
Born in London, G.K. Chesterton was educated at St. Paul’s, but never went to college. He went to art school. In 1900, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time. He wrote a hundred books, contributions to 200 more, hundreds of poems, including the ...
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Jun 10, 2024 · G.K. Chesterton (born May 29, 1874, London, England—died June 14, 1936, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire) was an English critic and author of verse, essays, novels, and short stories, known also for his exuberant personality and rotund figure. (Read Chesterton’s 1929 Britannica essay on Dickens.) Chesterton, G.K.
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4. The Man Who Was Thursday. Subtitled A Nightmare, this 1908 book is surely Chesterton’s best-known novel. The centrepiece is the meeting of the Council of the New Anarchists, each of whose seven members is named after a day of the week (hence the novel’s title).
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Who is G.K. Chesterton? Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) is a writer like none other. As a journalist, he wrote thousands of essays for the London newspapers. But he also wrote a hundred books: novels, poetry, plays, literary criticism, history, economic theory, philosophy, and theology. And detective stories.
Paul Nowak has collected a number of introductions written by G.K.Chesterton. A History of the United States by Cecil Chesterton, Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. (The full text is available from Project Gutenberg) -- html (16K) -- text (15K) Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, Introduction
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