Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward
Brand: Rowman & Littlefield
Product Description
Maisie Wards biography of Gilbert Keith Chesterton has long been a cornerstone in Chesterton studies as well as in the publishing house she and her husband Frank Sheed founded in 1926. Originally published in 1942 just six years after Chestertons untimely death this book combines Wards unique perspective as the authors friend and publisher with an examination of his personal correspondence and interviews with his closest friends and family. Here are Chestertons childhood and school days the friendship and foolery of youth his early theological development high spirited love letters the variety and richness of his travel and life abroad his lectures his writings and his indominable spirit. A Sheed amp Ward Classic this rerelease of Wards definitive biography is sure to delight existing Chestertonians and introduce a new generation to one of Catholicisms brightest lights. From the new introduction by Andrew Greeley This book had a decisive impact on me and on my life when I read it at the age of sixteenand not merely because my fictional detective Blackie Ryan is an American cousin of GKCs Father Brown. Ms. Wards biography introduced me not only to a world of literature of which I had been unaware but to a perspective on literature and life which was enormously attractive because it confirmed many of the insights instincts inclinations biases and loves which were knocking around in my adolescent skull. I have been a Chestertonian all my life in part because I had been one without knowing it even before I read Ms. Wards biography.
Condition : New
Author : Maisie Ward
Weight : 1027
Publisher : Rowman amp Littlefield
Language : English
EAN : 9780742550438
ISBN10 : 0742550435
Format : Hardback
Date of Publication : 20080627
Place of Publication : United States
Pagination : 600 Pages
Dimensions : 221 X 152 X 43