Defiant joy : the remarkable life & impact of G.K. Chesterton /
Belmonte, Kevin Charles.
Defiant joy : the remarkable life & impact of G.K. Chesterton / Remarkable life & impact of G.K. Chesterton Kevin Belmonte. - Nashville : Thomas Nelson, c2011. - xviii, 318 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"My earliest path" -- "From childhood to boyhood" -- A perfect storm -- And now for a career -- An "artist" in words -- Eternal ideas -- Varied types -- The tower that strikes the stars -- Heretics and first things -- No definite image of good -- Mr. Dickens's champion -- Why orthodoxy matters -- A melodramatic sort of moonshine -- Chesterton, Mencken, and Shaw -- The advent of Father Brown -- The great ballad -- Mr. Shaw's insistent demand -- The toast of London -- A near closing of the curtain -- What I saw in America -- Saint Francis -- Over to you, Mr. Wells -- Chaucer -- The pillar of the Apennines -- Men must endure their going hence -- Epilogue: A near view of the man as he was -- A Chesterton timeline.
1595552014 (pbk.) 9781595552013 (pbk.)
2010025075
Chesterton, G. K. 1874-1936 --Appreciation.
Chesterton, G. K. 1874-1936.
Authors, English--20th century--Biography.
Defiant joy : the remarkable life & impact of G.K. Chesterton / Remarkable life & impact of G.K. Chesterton Kevin Belmonte. - Nashville : Thomas Nelson, c2011. - xviii, 318 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"My earliest path" -- "From childhood to boyhood" -- A perfect storm -- And now for a career -- An "artist" in words -- Eternal ideas -- Varied types -- The tower that strikes the stars -- Heretics and first things -- No definite image of good -- Mr. Dickens's champion -- Why orthodoxy matters -- A melodramatic sort of moonshine -- Chesterton, Mencken, and Shaw -- The advent of Father Brown -- The great ballad -- Mr. Shaw's insistent demand -- The toast of London -- A near closing of the curtain -- What I saw in America -- Saint Francis -- Over to you, Mr. Wells -- Chaucer -- The pillar of the Apennines -- Men must endure their going hence -- Epilogue: A near view of the man as he was -- A Chesterton timeline.
1595552014 (pbk.) 9781595552013 (pbk.)
2010025075
Chesterton, G. K. 1874-1936 --Appreciation.
Chesterton, G. K. 1874-1936.
Authors, English--20th century--Biography.