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G.K. Chesterton : a biography

I. T. Ker
This full-length life of G. K. Chesterton is the first comprehensive biography of both the man and the writer. It draws on many unpublished letters and papers to evoke Chesterton's joyful humour, his humility and affinity to the common man, and his love of the ordinary things of life.
Print Book, English, 2012
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012
Biographies
xx, 747 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
9780199601288, 9780199655762, 0199601283, 0199655766
796276353
The early days
Publishing and engagement
Marriage and fame
Controversy
Dickens
Orthodoxy
Shaw and Beaconsfield
Father Brown and the Marconi scandal
The Victorian compromise and illness
War and travel
America and conversion
The everlasting man
Distributism and apologetics
Rome and America again
The last years