Chesterton

by Garry Wills

Book Overview

Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What The Qur'an Meant , coming fall 2017. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg and Papal Sin captures the many dimensions of one of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385502907
• ISBN13: 9780385502900
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Image
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Wills on Chesterton

Chesterton is one of the most towering intellectual writers of the 20th century. Garry Wills does an amazing feat in exploring the literary development of Chesterton (instead of a normal biography as the events of one's life.) Reading Wills' book really illuminates the genius of Chesterton through his works and is a must read for all Chesterton fans.

Wills on Chesterton

G.K. Chesterton has to be one of the most towering figures of the 20th Century. He has a paradoxical quote for almost every subject. This, however, is not a typical biography of events tempered with anecdotes to keep the reader's interest. Rather, Garry Wills ventures to chart Chesterton's intellectual development through his works. After reading Wills' [literary] biography, you have to wonder how society has forgotten perhaps the greatest writer of prose, not to mention greatest mind, the past century has seen. Read this book and marvel...