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Varied Types

Author
G. K. Chesterton
Read by
Raphael Croft
Language
English
Length
3 hours 27 minutes
ISBN
9781802566352
Published
20 May 2025
Imprint
Adelphi Press
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Chesterton’s essays walk a mixed gallery of lives and legends, probing character, faith, and fame with wit that refuses the official portrait. Spoken as sharp company for anyone who wants to hear how reputation hardens, and how paradox can still pry it open.

Author

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, often referred to as the prince of paradox. Chesterton is well known for his fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and for his reasoned apologetics. Even some of those who disagree with him have recognized the wide appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. Chesterton's wit, paradoxical style, and defence of tradition made him a dominant figure in early 20th-century literature.

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