A Miscellany of Men

A Miscellany of Men

by G. K. Chesterton
A Miscellany of Men

A Miscellany of Men

by G. K. Chesterton

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Overview

A Miscellany of Men is a classic text from G.K. Chesterton is a collection of humorous short stories and English essays which includes:The suffragist -- The poet and the cheese -- The thing -- The man who thinks backwards -- The nameless man -- The gardener and the guinea -- The voter and the two voices -- The mad official -- The enchanted man -- The sun worshipper -- The wrong incendiary -- The free man -- The hypothetical householder -- The priest of spring -- The real journalist -- The sentimental Scot -- The sectarian of society -- The fool -- The conscript and the crisis -- The miser and his friends -- The mystagogue -- The red reactionary -- The separatist and sacred things -- The Mummer -- The aristocratic 'arry -- The new theologian -- The romantic in the rain -- The false photographer -- The sultan -- The architect of spears -- The man on top -- The other kind of man -- The mediaeval villain -- The divine detective -- The elf of Japan -- The chartered libertine -- The contented man -- The angry author: his farewell. It discusses everyday and contemporary topics of 20th century Europe.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781774418895
Publisher: Whispering Pines Press
Publication date: 04/25/2021
Pages: 116
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.24(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Gilbert Keith Chesterton KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer, philosopher, Christian apologist, a literary and art critic.

Chesterton created the fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and wrote on apologetics. Even some of those who disagree with him have recognised the wide appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man.[4][5] Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an orthodox Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting from high church Anglicanism. Biographers have identified him as a successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, John Henry Newman and John Ruskin.

He has been referred to as the "prince of paradox". Of his writing style, Time observed: "Whenever possible, Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out."[4] His writings were an influence on Jorge Luis Borges, who compared his literature with that of Edgar Allan Poe.
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