Defiant joy : : the Remarkable Life & Impact of G.k. Chesterton
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Call Number: 921 Chesterton, G.
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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"My earliest path" -- "From childhood to boyhood" -- A perfect storm -- And now for a career -- An "artist" in words -- Eternal ideas -- Varied types -- The tower that strikes the stars -- Heretics and first things -- No definite image of good -- Mr. Dickens's champion -- Why orthodoxy matters -- A melodramatic sort of moonshine -- Chesterton, Mencken, and Shaw -- The advent of Father Brown -- The great ballad -- Mr. Shaw's insistent demand -- The toast of London -- A near closing of the curtain -- What I saw in America -- Saint Francis -- Over to you, Mr. Wells -- Chaucer -- The pillar of the Apennines -- Men must endure their going hence -- Epilogue: A near view of the man as he was -- A Chesterton timeline.
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PUBLISHED
Nashville : Thomas Nelson, c2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: xviii, 318 p. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781595552013
1595552014
SUBJECTS
Chesterton, G. K. -- 1874-1936.
Chesterton, G. K. -- 1874-1936 -- Appreciation.
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.