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by: G. K. Chesterton
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 828.91209
EAN: 9781570754951
ISBN: 1570754950
Label: Orbis Books
Manufacturer: Orbis Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: 2003-10
Publisher: Orbis Books
Sales Rank: 1131952
Studio: Orbis Books
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Rating: - Mr. Wilde, Mr. Chesterton, and Pugilistic Apologetics
I'll admit it. I've never cared for Chesterton. He reminds me too much of another author who sets my teeth on edge: Oscar Wilde. Both of them strike me as striving too hard to be clever and not hard enough to be wise. They reach for the bon mot and neglect the argument. Sometimes the cleverness comes off, but often it doesn't--witness Chesterton's execrable little books on Francis of Assisi and Thomas Aquinas, or his tedious Father Brown stories.
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