Gilbert Man Who Was G K

Coren, Michael

ISBN 10: 0224025074 / ISBN 13: 9780224025072

Published by Random House UK, 1989

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Signed and inscribed by author. Text is clean.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gilbert Man Who Was G K
• Publisher: Random House UK
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224025074
• ISBN 13: 9780224025072
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography

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Synopsis

Book by MICHAEL COREN

From Library Journal

Chesterton (1874-1936) crammed his life with work, drawing, editing, debating, and writing mysteries, biographies, histories, essays, and poetry, over 70 volumes in all. He knew many contemporary literary figures such as Shaw, Belloc, and Beerbohm. In a balanced and chronological way, Coren follows this huge, peculiar man, quoting extensively from letters, journals, and his autobiography. In readable prose he chronicles Chesterton's sometimes naive economic and political ideas, occasional bigotry, efforts to maintain his bloated body, and influential conversion to Catholicism. With his "frequent insistence on treading the middle road, even when that position was untenable," Chesterton is a slippery, sometimes annoying, figure. The book is a life, not a literary criticism, and is recommended for large libraries that want another view of this writer.
- John Miller, Normandale Community Coll., Bloom ington, Minn.
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