The is the second volume of Chesterton's novels in this series of his Collected Works. (Volume VI is the other book of novels.) Besides his well-known philosophical-theological writings, Chesterton's fiction is very popular (Father Brown Mysteries, The Man Who Was Thursday, etc.) and among those who regarded him as a great literary figure are T.S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, C.S. Lewis and W.H. Auden. The reader will encounter characters in these novels that defend with great vigor the dignity of the person and fundamental Christian beliefs.
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Chesterton was a writer about beliefs, and we tend to follow him instantly into his subject-into economic or political or moral issues; into Distributism, Eugenics, Wine, Divorce, whatever-without paying much attention to the technical or formal aspects of his writing; except, of course, that we enjoy his paradoxes and startling analogies and breezy alliterative antitheses. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Horne Fisher, Owen Hood, Lord Eden, Lord Seawood, Julian Archer, Sir Walter, Olive Ashley, Hilary Pierce, Harold March, Colonel Crane, Enoch Oates, John Braintree, Douglas Murrel, Father Stephen, Miss Ashley, Don Quixote, Michael Herne, Lord Normantowers, Wilding White, Rosamund Severne, Seawood Abbey, Sir Horace Hunter, Blue Boar, Captain Pierce, Professor Green New!
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Chesterton was a writer about beliefs, and we tend to follow him instantly into his subject-into economic or political or moral issues; into Distributism, Eugenics, Wine, Divorce, whatever-without paying much attention to the technical or formal aspects of his writing; except, of course, that we enjoy his paradoxes and startling analogies and breezy alliterative antitheses. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Horne Fisher, Owen Hood, Lord Eden, Lord Seawood, Julian Archer, Sir Walter, Olive Ashley, Hilary Pierce, Harold March, Colonel Crane, Enoch Oates, John Braintree, Douglas Murrel, Father Stephen, Miss Ashley, Don Quixote, Michael Herne, Lord Normantowers, Wilding White, Rosamund Severne, Seawood Abbey, Sir Horace Hunter, Blue Boar, Captain Pierce, Professor Green New!
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- The Man Who Knew Too Much by G. K. Chesterton on 6 pages
- The Man Who Knew Too Much by Gilbert K. Chesterton on 6 pages
- The Return of Don Quixote by G. K. Chesterton on 5 pages
- The Complete Father Brown Stories by G. K. Chesterton on 5 pages
- The Flying Inn by G. K. Chesterton on 4 pages
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- The Christian Imagination: G.K. Chesterton on the Arts by Thomas C. Peters on 31 pages
- Brave New Family: G.K. Chesterton on Men and Women, Children, Sex, Divorce, Marriage and the Family by Gilbert Keith Chesterton on 13 pages
- Father Brown of the Church of Rome: Selected Mystery Stories by G. K. Chesterton on 9 pages
- Another Sort of Learning by James V. Schall on 8 pages
- The Annotated Thursday: G.K. Chesterton's Masterpiece, the Man Who Was Thursday by Martin Gardner on 7 pages
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