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Leo Tolstoy G. K. Chesterton, Edward Garnett, and G. H. Perris 453 downloads; Eugenics and Other Evils G. K. Chesterton 451 downloads; Charles Dickens G. K. Chesterton and Frederic George Kitton 432 downloads; The Ball and the Cross G. K. Chesterton 431 downloads; The Napoleon of Notting Hill G. K. Chesterton 365 downloads; A Short History of England G. K. Chesterton 339 downloads; Aesop's.
Chesterton’s biographies of St. Francis of Assisi and St. Thomas Aquinas were hugely popular and have remained so, the latter being judged by the celebrated Thomist, Etienne Gilson, as one of the finest studies of Aquinas ever written. As already mentioned, Chesterton’s seminal apologetic works, Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man, were hugely influential and have been cited by many converts.
Chesterton on Islam As our less cloistered readers are aware, there is currently something of a tumult in the works regarding a certain lampooning of a certain desert religion's founder. One would have hoped perhaps that they would take in stride, drawing - again perhaps - upon the example set by Christendom, the founder of which was lampooned quite manfully even at the moment of his death.
Chesterton probably wrote more than anyone ever so I'm sure he can tell you in his own words why he converted from Atheism to Anglicanism and from Anglicanism to Catholicism. See: Catholic Church and Conversion and Why I am A Catholic and The God With the Golden Key. As an avid reader of Chesterton, I'm often perplexed at how much love he gives to Catholics even before he became one himself.
Lepanto By G. K. Chesterton. White founts falling in the courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; There is laughter like the fountains in that face of all men feared, It stirs the forest darkness, the darkness of his beard, It curls the blood-red crescent, the crescent of his lips, For the inmost sea of all the earth is shaken with his ships. They have dared the.
Chesterton wrote around 80 books, several hundred poems, 200 short stories, 4000 essays and a few plays. He was a columnist for the Daily News, Illustrated London News, and his own paper, G.K's Weekly. In the United States, his writings on distributism were popularized through The American Review, published by Seward Collins in New York. He was a literary and social critic, historian.
Autobiography, by G.K. Chesterton, free ebook. IV.—HOW TO BE A LUNATIC. I deal here with the darkest and most difficult part of my task; the period of youth which is full of doubts and morbidities and temptations; and which, though in my case mainly subjective, has left in my mind for ever a certitude upon the objective solidity of Sin.