GK Chesterton was one of the giants of early 20th-century literature. If that description makes him sound less like a human being than a fairy-tale creature, then it accurately captures a character ...

With his Falstaffian figure and combination Edwardian/Sir Galahad outlook, it is easy – and a mistake – to underestimate the talent and influence of G.K. Chesterton. Born in London in 1874, Gilbert ...

It has been over half a century since Maisie Ward’s major biography of G.K Chesterton (1874-1936) appeared in 1943. Since then, Chesterton has largely been a darling of Anglophiles, conservatives, and ...

He was 6 foot 4 in the old money (192cm) and almost as wide. He wrote some novels - The Man Who was Thursday and The Napoleon of Notting Gate - which will live as classics. He wrote books such as ...

Devotees of the English writer and Catholic apologist G.K. Chesterton rejoiced at the news that a Catholic bishop in England is seeking to open an investigation into whether he should be declared a ...

GK Chesterton: A Biography by Ian Ker and Wish You Were Here by Graham Swift "Heroically researched, and sensitive to the shifts and eddies of its hero's intellectual position, GK Chesterton: A ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. The ordinary modern progressive position is that this is a bad universe, but will certainly get better. I say it ...

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