What's Wrong with the World de G. K. Chesterton

What's Wrong with the World: A Confederate Memoir of Civil War

G. K. Chesterton

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 noi 2011

A book of essays by G. K. Chesterton, this selection contains sardonically-titled pieces such as "The Romance of Thrift" and "The Empire of the Insect." Of it, Chesterton writes (in the dedication), "this book is what is wrong and no mistake." In fact his book is a witty and incisive conservative analysis of the culture of his time.

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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.