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Varied Types

Author
G. K. Chesterton
Series
Christian Classics
Language
English
Length
106 pages
ISBN
9781910660164
Published
15 November 2014
Imprint
Adelphi Press
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  • Leo Tolstoy
  • Ruskin
  • William Morris
  • Byron
  • Thomas Carlyle
  • Tennyson
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Chesterton turns his essayist’s eye on a mixed company of lives and legends, testing what we think we know about character, faith, and fame. Wit and paradox cut through received portraits, asking what still matters in a figure once the official story has settled. Useful whenever you want sharp company for thinking about how reputation is made.

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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