G. K. Chesterton
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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- Chesterton, G. K.
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- Date of birth
- 1874-05-29
- Place of birth
- Kensington
- Date of death
- 1936-06-14
- Place of death
- Beaconsfield
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English author, philosopher, Christian apologist, and literary and art critic.
Chesterton created the fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and wrote on apologetics, such as his works Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an orthodox Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting from high church Anglicanism. Biographers have identified him as a successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, John Henry Newman and John Ruskin.
He has been referred to as the "prince of paradox". Of his writing style, Time observed: "Whenever possible, Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out." His writings were an influence on Jorge Luis Borges, who compared his work with that of Edgar Allan Poe.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic.
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- G. K. Chesterton wrote Knabenbücher
- G. K. Chesterton wrote Vandalism
- G. K. Chesterton wrote blurb for Der Unsichtbare(yellow / black cover with white dot)
- G. K. Chesterton wrote Heretics
- G. K. Chesterton wrote Orthodoxy
- G. K. Chesterton wrote Vulgarity
- G. K. Chesterton wrote On Reading
- G. K. Chesterton has a dedication in Good Omens
- G. K. Chesterton wrote blurb for Dr. Jekyll und Mr. Hyde
- G. K. Chesterton wrote Vandalismus
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