Gilbert Keith Chesterton

by Maisie Ward

49 chapters24h 58mEnglish1943

About this book

This is the first and only authorized biography of G.K. Chesterton, written by his friend, Maisie Ward. Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 – 1936), was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. He wrote around 80 books, several hundred poems, some 200 short stories, 4000 essays, and several plays. Chesterton is well known for his fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and for his reasoned apologetics. He converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism in 1922. (Summary by Maria Therese, partially adapted from Wikipedia)

Chapters (48)

1Background for Gilbert Keith Chesterton

876

2Childhood

1453

3School Days, Part 1

1817

4School Days, Part 2

1562

5Art Schools and University College

2032

6The Notebook

1144

7Towards a Career

2246

8Incipit Vita Nova

1220

9To Frances

1514

10A Long Engagement

2624

11Who is G.K.C.?, Part 1

1792

12Who is G.K.C.?, Part 2

2017

13Married Life in London, Part 1

2620

14Married Life in London, Part 2

2725

15Clearing the Ground for Orthodoxy

2593

16Orthodoxy

1743

17Bernard Shaw, Part 1

1667

18Bernard Shaw, Part 2

1846

19From Battersea to Beaconsfield, Part 1

1436

20From Battersea to Beaconsfield, Part 2

2026

21A Circle of Friends

2459

22The Disillusioned Liberal, Part 1

1653

23The Disillusioned Liberal, Part 2

1749

24The Eye Witness

2523

25Marconi, Part 1

2256

26Marconi, Part 2

1527

27The Eve of the War (1911-1915), Part 1

1741

28The Eve of the War (1911-1915), Part 2

1628

29The War Years, Part 1

1899

30The War Years, Part 2

2162

31After the Armistice

2472

32Rome via Jerusalem, Part 1

2578

33Rome via Jerusalem, Part 2

2387

34Completion

2253

35The Reluctant Editor (1925-1930), Part 1

1423

36The Reluctant Editor (1925-1930), Part 2

1610

37The Distributist League and Distributism

2407

38Silver Wedding, Part 1

2233

39Silver Wedding, Part 2

2073

40Columbus, Part 1

2018

41Columbus, Part 2

2089

42The Soft Answer

2285

43Our Lady's Tumbler

1503

44The Living Voice

2433

45Last Days

1056

46Appendix A—An Earlier Chesterton

349

47Appendix B—Prize Poem Written at St. Paul's

228

48Appendix C—The Chestertons

900

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