Varied Types

by G. K. Chesterton

Overview

These essays, with some alterations & additions, are reprinted from the Daily News & the Speaker. The 1st 12 were published in London, by A.L. Humphreys, 1903, as Twelve Types.
Charlie Brontë
William Morris & his school
The optimism of Byron
Pope & the art of satire
Francis
Rostand
Charles II
Stevenson
Thomas Carlyle
Tolstoy & the cult of simpliccity
The position of Sir Walter Scott
Bret Harte
Alfred the great
Maeterlinck
Ruskin
Queen Victoria
The German emperor
Tennyson
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161265840
Publisher:	UnderPress Books
Publication date:	04/18/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	645 KB

About the Author

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was born in London, educated at St. Paul’s, and went to art school at University College London. In 1900, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time. He wrote a hundred books, contributions to 200 more, hundreds of poems, including the epic Ballad of the White Horse, five plays, five novels, and some two hundred short stories, including a popular series featuring the priest-detective, Father Brown. In spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist. He wrote over 4000 newspaper essays, including 30 years worth of weekly columns for the Illustrated London News, and 13 years of weekly columns for the Daily News. He also edited his own newspaper, G.K.’s Weekly.