Heretics de G. K. Chesterton

Heretics

G. K. Chesterton

A collection of essays, including: Introductory Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy On the Negative Spirit On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Making the World Small Mr. Bernard Shaw Mr. H. G. Wells and the Giants Christmas and the Esthetes Omar and the Sacred Vine The Mildness of the Yellow Press The Moods of Mr. George Moore On Sandals and Simplicity Science and the Savages Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson Celts and Celtophiles On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family On Smart Novelists and the Smart Set On Mr. McCabe and a Divine Frivolity On the Wit of Whistler The Fallacy of the Young Nation Slum Novelists and the Slums Concluding Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy

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G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was a prolific English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He is best known in mystery circles as the creator of the fictional priest-detective Father Brown and for the metaphysical thriller The Man Who Was Thursday. Often referred to as "the prince of paradox," Chesterton frequently made his points by turning familiar sayings and proverbs inside out. Chesterton attended the Slade School of Art, a department of University College London, where he took classes in illustration and literature, though he did not complete a degree in either subject. In 1895, at the age of twenty-one, he began working for the London publisher George Redway. A year later he moved to another publisher, T. Fisher Unwin, where he undertook his first work in journalism, illustration, and literary criticism. In addition to writing fifty-three Father Brown stories, Chesterton authored articles and books of social criticism, philosophy, theology, economics, literary criticism, biography, and poetry.