G. K. Chesterton: A Biography

by Ian Ker

Book Overview

G. K. Chesterton is remembered as a brilliant creator of nonsense and satirical verse, author of the Father Brown stories and the innovative novel, The Man who was Thursday, and yet today he is not counted among the major English novelists and poets. However, this major new biography argues that Chesterton should be seen as the successor of the great Victorian prose writers, Carlyle, Arnold, Ruskin, and above all Newman.

Chesterton's achievement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199655766
• ISBN13: 9780199655762
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 782 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"