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by: Garry Wills
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 828.91209
EAN: 9780385502900
ISBN: 0385502907
Label: Image
Manufacturer: Image
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: September 04, 2001
Publisher: Image
Release Date: September 04, 2001
Sales Rank: 548596
Studio: Image
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Rating:  - biased
This work is written by a radical who opposes Church teachings. Wills allows his own opinions to influence his scholarship. See much better accounts by Chesterton himself, Ahlquist, or many other reliable biographers.
Rating: - read instead the �Autobiography of G. K. Chesterton�
There's no new ground covered here, which is a major flaw for a work by an "historian; moreover, the author's writing style is hackneyed, and that's in its most readable passages. Also, Chesterton was an Orthodox Catholic, where the author of this work is not - their perspectives are at polar ends. Chesterton probably would have been appalled to have such an adversary of the Church to be so bold as to write about his life.
If you want to know Chesterton read his "Autobiography of G. ... Read More
Rating:  - Wills on Chesterton
Chesterton is one of the most towering intellectual writers of the 20th century. Garry Wills does an amazing feat in exploring the literary development of Chesterton (instead of a normal biography as the events of one's life.) Reading Wills' book really illuminates the genius of Chesterton through his works and is a must read for all Chesterton fans.
Rating: - Wills on Chesterton
G.K. Chesterton has to be one of the most towering figures of the 20th Century. He has a paradoxical quote for almost every subject. This, however, is not a typical biography of events tempered with anecdotes to keep the reader's interest. Rather, Garry Wills ventures to chart Chesterton's intellectual development through his works. After reading Wills' [literary] biography, you have to wonder how society has forgotten perhaps the greatest writer of prose, not to mention greatest mind, the past century ... Read More
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