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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.

Last modified: 2020-12-12 (revision #47087)

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NameFormatISBNRelease Date
OrthodoxyeBook?1994-05-01
The Club of Queer TradeseBook?2019-03-16
OrthodoxyeBook?2021-04-26
The Napoleon of Notting HilleBook?2017-02-09
Father Browns Einfalt: 12 GeschichtenHardcover3-251-20294-41999
The Incredulity of Father BrowneBook?2022-12-04
Die verdächtigen Schritte: Eine Meisterdetektiv-GeschichtePaperback3-257-79515-71983
The Secret of Father BrowneBook?2023-01-31
The Innocence of Father BrowneBook?2016-04-10
Das Paradies der DiebePaperback3-426-00305-81975-03
The Innocence of Father BrowneBook?2008-07-09
The Wisdom of Father BrowneBook?1995-02-01
HereticseBook?2021-02-10
Der gewöhnliche SterblicheHardcover?1962
Father Browns Einfalt / Weisheit / Ungläubigkeit: ErzählungenHardcover3-89996-180-32004
The Man Who Was ThursdayeBook?2015-12-01
The Wisdom of Father BrowneBook?2017-09-07
Pater Brown und der Pfeil vom HimmelPaperback3-502-51183-71988
Franziskus: Der Heilige von AssisiPaperback3-596-25976-21986-11
Verteidigung des Unsinns, der Demut, des Schundromans und anderer mißachteter DingePaperback3-596-25713-11986-10
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chestertongk
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14767719
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Q183167

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