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The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: The Illustrated London News, 1911-1913 (Collected Works of Gk Chesterton) [Hardcover]

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April 1, 1988 Collected Works of Gk Chesterton
Can Chesterton always be at his best? Well, Chesterton is always Chesterton. Here is a scattered sampling of the titles in this third volume of Illustrated London News articles: "Fashionable Suffragettes and the Truly Feminine", "Bad Sentences and Bad Theology", "Capitalism and Marriage", "The Failure of Words in Our Time", "On Glorifying Divorce", "The Modern Anti-Democracy", "Modern Womanhood", "Too Much Vox Populi?", "The Curse of Labels", "The Broadening Down of Democracy", "Science in America", "The Causes of War", "On Being Old-Fashioned", and--surely helpful for us all--"The Right to Denounce Things".

Volumes 27 through 37 are collected columns from The Illustrated London News. Most of the weekly articles Chesterton wrote for The Illustrated London News have never been printed in book form until Ignatius Press undertook to do the collected works. These volumes contain all of Chesterton's columns in The Illustrated London News, beginning in 1905. The great majority have never appeared in book form. Chesterton lovers will be delighted to find this treasure filled with jewels quite the match of his best writing.


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  • Hardcover
  • Publisher: Ignatius Press (April 1, 1988)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0898701732
  • ISBN-13: 978-0898701739
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 1.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but not his best, April 4, 2006
Having just read GKC's essays from 1929-1931, I noticed quite a difference in these earlier works. Here, his insights are not quite as penetrating, his humor not quite as sharp. Still, Chesterton on a bad day is better than most social/political/spiritual commentators on a good day.

Recurrent themes/subjects in this volume include:

1. The anti-democratic tendencies of England which arise in part from an immoral concentration of wealth among the ruling class.

2. England's immoral and irrational laws against the poor, and England's treatment of the poor in general.

3. Feminism and the Suffrage movement.

Also of interest are a couple essays reflecting on the disaster of the Titanic.

All in all, worth reading, but I found the volumes covering the years just before and during WWI far more interesting.
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