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Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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2005
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Maisie Ward's biography of Gilbert Keith Chesterton has long been a cornerstone in Chesterton studies, as well as in the publishing house she and her husband, Frank Sheed, founded in 1926. Originally published in 1942, just six years after Chesterton's untimely death, this book combines Ward's unique perspective as the author's friend and publisher with an examination of his personal correspondence and interviews with his closest friends and family. Here are Chesterton's childhood and school days, the friendship and foolery of youth, his early theological development, high spirited love letters, the variety and richness of his travel and life abroad, his lectures, his writings, and his indominable spirit. A Sheed & Ward Classic, this re-release of Ward's definitive biography is sure to delight existing "Chestertonians" and introduce a new generation to one of Catholicism's brightest lights.
From the new introduction by Andrew Greeley:
"This book had a decisive impact on me and on my life when I read it at the age of sixteen—and not merely because my fictional detective Blackie Ryan is an American cousin of GKC's Father Brown. Ms. Ward's biography introduced me not only to a world of literature of which I had been unaware, but to a perspective on literature and life which was enormously attractive because it confirmed many of the insights, instincts, inclinations, biases, and loves which were knocking around in my adolescent skull. I have been a Chestertonian all my life in part because I had been one without knowing it even before I read Ms. Ward's biography."
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Copyright year
2005
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-5044-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-0253-8
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
575
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Table of Contents No access
List of Illustrations No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction to the New Edition No access
Introduction: Chiefly Concerning Sources No access Pages 1 - 6
Chapter I: Background for Gilbert Keith Chesterton No access Pages 7 - 12
Chapter II: Childhood No access Pages 13 - 22
Chapter III: School Days No access Pages 23 - 42
Chapter IV: Art Schools and University College No access Pages 43 - 55
Chapter V: The Notebook No access Pages 56 - 64
Chapter VI: Towards a Career No access Pages 65 - 76
Chapter VII: Incipit Vita Nova No access Pages 77 - 84
Chapter VIII: To Frances No access Pages 85 - 94
Chapter IX: A Long Engagement No access Pages 95 - 110
Chapter X: Who is G.K.C.? No access Pages 111 - 132
Chapter XI: Married Life in London No access Pages 133 - 166
Chapter XII: Clearing the Ground for Orthodoxy No access Pages 167 - 180
Chapter XIII: Orthodoxy No access Pages 181 - 190
Chapter XIV: Bernard Shaw No access Pages 191 - 208
Chapter XV: From Battersea to Beaconsfield (1909-11) No access Pages 209 - 228
Chapter XVI: A Circle of Friends No access Pages 229 - 246
Chapter XVII: The Disillusioned Liberal No access Pages 247 - 268
Chapter XVIII: The Eye Witness No access Pages 269 - 282
Chapter XIX: Marconi No access Pages 283 - 309
Chapter XX: The Eve of The War (1911-1915) No access Pages 310 - 331
Chapter XXI: The War Years No access Pages 332 - 357
Chapter XXII: After the Armistice No access Pages 358 - 373
Chapter XXIII: Rome Via Jerusalem No access Pages 374 - 398
Chapter XXIV: Completion No access Pages 399 - 413
Chapter XXV: The Reluctant Editor (1925-1930) No access Pages 414 - 432
Chapter XXVI: The Distributist League and Distributism No access Pages 433 - 448
Chapter XXVII: Silver Wedding No access Pages 449 - 476
Chapter XXVIII: Columbus No access Pages 477 - 504
Chapter XXIX: The Soft Answer No access Pages 505 - 520
