Heretics / G. K. Chesterton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chesterton, G. K., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English essays.

Heretics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (122 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Open Road Integrated Media, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The opening salvo in G. K. Chesterton's war against vagueness, affectation, and group think in life and art Part literary criticism, part jeremiad, and part metaphysical inquiry, Heretics is G. K. Chesterton's groundbreaking attempt to cull the values, belief systems, and moral peccadilloes of his day. The twenty articles and essays included in this seminal work shed a brilliant light on the most profound mysteries of human nature. From the works of H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, and Rudyard Kipling to "The Fallacy of the Young Nation" and "The Mildness of the Yellow Press, " Chesterton casts a critical eye on the prevailing attitudes of the early twentieth century. He is at the height of his lucidity and sardonic power in Heretics, formulating a highly influential worldview that he would continue to develop in the acclaimed companion volume, Orthodoxy. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Dedication

I. Introductory Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy

II. On the Negative Spirit

III. On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Making the World Small

IV. Mr. Bernard Shaw

V. Mr. H. G. Wells and the Giants

VI. Christmas and the Aesthetes

VII. Omar and the Sacred Vine

VIII. The Mildness of the Yellow Press

IX. The Moods of Mr. George Moore

X. On Sandals and Simplicity

XI. Science and the Savages

XII. Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson

XIII. Celts and Celtophiles

XIV. On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family

XV. On Smart Novelists and the Smart Set

XVI. On Mr. McCabe and a Divine Frivolity

XVII. On the Wit of Whistler

XVIII. The Fallacy of the Young Nation

XIX. Slum Novelists and the Slums

XX. Concluding Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy

Copyright.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebrary, viewed December 9, 2016).

ISBN:

9781504022507

1504022505

OCLC:

919873068