{"product_id":"the-everyman-chesterton-edited-and-introduced-by-ian-ker-hardcover","title":"The Everyman Chesterton: Edited and Introduced by Ian Ker - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eG. K. Chesterton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eIan Ker\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eIan Ker\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first one-volume reader of the best of G. K. Chesterton's writing in the full range of genres he mastered. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChesterton was a towering literary figure of the early twentieth century, accomplished and prolific in many literary forms. A forceful proponent of Christianity and a critic of both conservatism and liberalism, he set out to describe nothing less than the spiritual journey of humanity in \u003ci\u003eOrthodoxy \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Everlasting Man, \u003c\/i\u003e his most enduring books. He is famous as well for his beloved Father Brown detective stories, his satirical and comic verse, his profoundly witty paradoxes and aphorisms, and his penetrating studies of such figures as Charles Dickens, St. Francis of Assisi, and St. Thomas Aquinas. \u003ci\u003eThe Everyman Chesterton \u003c\/i\u003econtains samples of his poems, stories, essays, and biographies, as well as the influential works of religious, political, and social thought in which he championed the common man and for which he is most admired. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTable of Contents: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAUTOBIOGRAPHY\u003cbr\u003eHearsay Evidence\u003cbr\u003eThe Man with the Golden Key \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCHARLES DICKENS\u003cbr\u003eThe Dickens Period\u003cbr\u003eThe Boyhood of Dickens\u003cbr\u003eThe Youth of Dickens\u003cbr\u003eThe Pickwick Papers\u003cbr\u003eThe Great Popularity\u003cbr\u003eDickens and America\u003cbr\u003eDickens and Christmas\u003cbr\u003eThe Time of Transition\u003cbr\u003eLater Life and Works\u003cbr\u003eThe Great Dickens Characters\u003cbr\u003eOn the Alleged Optimism of Dickens\u003cbr\u003eA Note on the Future of Dickens \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTHE VICTORIAN AGE IN LITERATURE\u003cbr\u003eThe Victorian Compromise and Its Enemies\u003cbr\u003eThe Great Victorian Novelists\u003cbr\u003eThe Great Victorian Poets \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eORTHODOXY\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction in Defence of Everything Else\u003cbr\u003eThe Maniac\u003cbr\u003eThe Suicide of Thought\u003cbr\u003eThe Ethics of Elfland\u003cbr\u003eThe Flag of the World\u003cbr\u003eThe Paradoxes of Christianity\u003cbr\u003eThe Eternal Revolution\u003cbr\u003eThe Romance of Orthodoxy\u003cbr\u003eAuthority and the Adventurer \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTHE EVERLASTING MAN\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Plan of This Book\u003cbr\u003eThe Riddles of the Gospel\u003cbr\u003eThe Strangest Story in the World\u003cbr\u003eThe Witness of the Heretics\u003cbr\u003eThe Escape from Paganism\u003cbr\u003eThe Five Deaths of the Faith\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: The Summary of This Book \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eST THOMAS AQUINAS\u003cbr\u003eOn Two Friars\u003cbr\u003eThe Aristotelian Revolution\u003cbr\u003eA Meditation on the Manichees\u003cbr\u003eThe Approach to Thomism\u003cbr\u003eThe Permanent Philosophy\u003cbr\u003eThe Sequel to St Thomas \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFATHER BROWN STORIES\u003cbr\u003eThe Blue Cross\u003cbr\u003eThe Queer Feet\u003cbr\u003eThe Wrong Shape\u003cbr\u003eThe Resurrection of Father Brown\u003cbr\u003eThe Miracle of Moon Crescent\u003cbr\u003eThe Dagger with Wings\u003cbr\u003eThe Doom of the Darnaways\u003cbr\u003eThe Song of the Flying Fish\u003cbr\u003eThe Red Moon of Meru\u003cbr\u003eThe Chief Mourner of Marne\u003cbr\u003eThe Scandal of Father Brown\u003cbr\u003eThe Quick One\u003cbr\u003eThe Blast of the Book\u003cbr\u003eThe Green Man\u003cbr\u003eThe Crime of the Communist\u003cbr\u003eThe Vampire of the Village \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePOEMS\u003cbr\u003eWine and Water\u003cbr\u003eAntichrist, or the Reunion of Christendom: An Ode\u003cbr\u003eElegy in a Country Churchyard\u003cbr\u003eLepanto\u003cbr\u003eThe Secret People\u003cbr\u003eThe Rolling English Road\u003cbr\u003eThe Donkey\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eG. K. Chesterton\u003c\/b\u003e was born in England in 1874 and died in 1936. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIan Ker\u003c\/b\u003e is a Senior Research Fellow at St. Benet's Hall, Oxford University; he is the author of a biography of G. K. Chesterton to be published by Oxford University Press in 2011.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 952\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.72 x 8.21 x 5.35 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 05, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51754193322272,"sku":"9780307594976","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/fdbcf8a4bc8129cac3e9d30d746a05c1.webp?v=1780035456","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-everyman-chesterton-edited-and-introduced-by-ian-ker-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}