Chesterton / Garry Wills.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wills, Garry, 1934-

Contributor:

Wills, Garry, 1934-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936.

Chesterton, G. K.

Authors, English--20th century--Biography.

Authors, English.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 330 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Image books edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Doubleday, 2001.

Summary:

Part of a literary circle that included H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Hillaire Belloc, and Max Beerbohm, G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) wrote essays of social criticism for contemporary journals, literary criticism (including notable books on Browning, Dickens, and Shaw), and works of theology and religious argument, but may have been best known for his Father Brown mysteries. Chesterton's interest in Catholic Christianity, first expressed in Orthodoxy, led to his conversion from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism in 1922. This revised edition of Garry Wills's finely crafted biography includes updates to the text and a new introduction by the author.

Notes:

"An Image book"--T.p. verso.

Rev. ed. of: Chesterton, man and mask. New York : Sheed & Ward, 1961.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-324) and index.

Related Work:

Wills, Garry, 1934- Chesterton, man and mask.

ISBN:

0385502907

OCLC:

48029791