The Quotable Chesterton: The Wit and Wisdom of G.K. Chesterton
By (Author) Kevin Belmonte
Thomas Nelson Publishers
Thomas Nelson Publishers
1st January 2011
United States
General
Non Fiction
828.91209
Paperback
336
Width 133mm, Height 202mm, Spine 34mm
271g
G. K. Chesterton was a literary giant of his age. With anexceptional intellect, he wrote about history, politics, economics, philosophy,social and literary criticism, and theology. He published essays, novels, biographies,short stories, and poetry, and the Christian classics Heretics, Orthodoxy, and The Everlasting Man, which C. S. Lewiscredits as instrumental in his conversion to Christianity.
With much of his finest material out of print or hard to find,modern readers have long needed a standard collection of his best thoughts. KevinBelmontes The Quotable Chesterton bringsthem to you arranged alphabetically by topic, with complete original sourcedocumentation.
There are entries from Adventure to Cheese, Politics tomile Zola, interspersed with essays about Chestertons life and times.Hundreds of passages drawn from Chestertons fiction, poetry, essays, and otherbooks showcase a man the New York Timeshailed as a brilliant English essayist and George Bernard Shaw called acolossal genius.
Endorsements:
There isnt a writer who gets me pacing and smiling andthinking like G.K. Chesterton. His every paradigm shift is an adjustment to my mentalcompass, and so a gift. DONALD MILLER, author of the New York Times bestsellers AMillion Miles in a Thousand Years and BlueLike Jazz
Over the years, I have delivered thousands of lectures,speeches, talks, and sermons; I have written hundreds of articles, essays,books, and reviews; it is an exceedingly rare occasion when any of them shouldfail to contain the words Chesterton once said. Kevin Belmonte here revealsthat fountain of wit, wisdom, and wonder, G.K. Chesterton, in all hisirresistibly, irrepressibly, quotable splendor.GEORGE GRANT, Pastor, ParishPresbyterian Church, and Chancellor, New College Franklin
Kevin Belmonteholds a BA in English Literature andtwo MA's in Church History and American and New England studies. He is the author of several books includingWilliam Wilberforce: A Hero for Humanityand winner of the prestigious John Pollock Award for Christian Biography