Author: Gilbert Keith ChestertonPublisher: NuVision Publications, LLC
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Alarms and Discursions, by G. K. Chesterton
Author: Gilbert Keith ChestertonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Alarms and Discursions
Author: Gilbert Keith ChestertonPublisher: NuVision Publications, LLC
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Alarms and Discursions
Author: Gilbert Keith ChestertonPublisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849677664
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
If Mr. Chesterton had been permitted to have his own way this handful of papers would have been sent out under the title of "Gargoyles." Perhaps the publisher foresaw horror upon the faces of really unimaginative readers when once brought face to face with a "monster" title; so it was changed to "Alarms and discursions," as indefinite and capable of possibilities as one could wish. "Fragments of futile journalism or fleeting impressions," Mr. Chesterton calls his essays. "This row of shapeless and ungainly monsters . . . does not consist of separate idols cut out capriciously in lonely valleys or various islands. These monsters are meant for the gargoyles of a definite cathedral. I have to carve the gargoyles, because I can carve nothing else; I leave to others the angels and the arches and the spires." Forty essays, in which excellent common sense and brilliantly phrased wisdom mingle with sheer nonsense.
Alarms and Discursions by G. K. Chesterton
Author: G. K. ChestertonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781433093791
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Alarms and Discursions
Author: G. K. ChestertonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781533116369
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
G.K. Chesterton was a legendary English writer who is often referred to as the prince of paradox. Due to Chesterton's unique writing style and numerous works in many genres, he is still one of the most widely read authors today. Whether it be the Father Brown detective stories or his great apologetic books The Everlasting Man and Orthodoxy, most people have come across Chesterton's work. Alarms and Discursions is a collection of essays that cover a vast variety of subjects.
Alarms and Discursions
Author: G. K. ChestertonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537087375
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, (29 May 1874 - 14 June 1936), better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox." Time magazine has observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories-first carefully turning them inside out." Chesterton is well known for his fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and for his reasoned apologetics. Even some of those who disagree with him have recognised the wide appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. Chesterton, as a political thinker, cast aspersions on both Progressivism and Conservatism, saying, "The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected." Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an "orthodox" Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting to Catholicism from High Church Anglicanism. George Bernard Shaw, Chesterton's "friendly enemy" according to Time, said of him, "He was a man of colossal genius." Biographers have identified him as a successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, Cardinal John Henry Newman, and John Ruskin.
Alarms and Discursions
Author: G K ChestertonPublisher: Catholic Way Publishing
ISBN: 9781783791323
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
"Alarms and Discursions by G. K. Chesterton: " Publisher: Kindle E-Book Edition: ISBN-13: 978-1-78379-133-0 Alone at some distance from the wasting walls of a disused abbey I found half sunken in the grass the grey and goggle-eyed visage of one of those graven monsters that made the ornamental water-spouts in the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. It lay there, scoured by ancient rains or striped by recent fungus, but still looking like the head of some huge dragon slain by a primeval hero. And as I looked at it, I thought of the meaning of the grotesque, and passed into some symbolic reverie of the three great stages of art. "Publisher: " Catholic Way Publishing. This Paperback is the ideal small size of 5" x 8."
Alarms and Discursions
Author: G K ChestertonPublisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
"Alarms and Discursions" by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read.
Alarms and Discursions
Author: G. K. ChestertonPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Discover the wit and wisdom of G.K. Chesterton in 'Alarms and Discursions', a collection of thirty-nine thought-provoking essays. With his trademark droll and dry style, Chesterton takes readers on a journey through topics ranging from politics and religion to literature and philosophy. From the imaginative and shocking 'The Modern Scrooge' to the classically English humor of 'Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds', and the hitting and memorable 'Five Hundred and Fifty-Five', Chesterton's insights are both paradoxical and profound. Get ready to be entertained, enlightened, and challenged by this masterful writer.
Alarms and Discursions
Author: G. K. ChestertonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781533619617
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an influential English writer of the early 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy, and detective fiction. Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox." He wrote in an off-hand, whimsical prose studded with startling formulations. Chesterton wrote about 4000 essays on various subjects, and "Alarms and Discursions is one of his collections.