Ian Ker (University of Oxford Theology Faculty)

G. K. Chesterton

A Biography

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Produktbeschreibung

This full-length life of G. K. Chesterton is the first comprehensive biography of both the man and the writer. It draws on many unpublished letters and papers to evoke Chesterton's joyful humour, his humility and affinity to the common man, and his love of the ordinary things of life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 782
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 1152g
• ISBN-13: 9780199655762
• ISBN-10: 0199655766
• Artikelnr.: 35483662

Autorenporträt

Ian Ker has taught both English literature and theology in universities in the United States and Britain, where he currently teaches in the Oxford theology faculty. He is the author and editor of more than twenty books on Newman, including John Henry Newman: A Biography (1988), as well as the author of The Catholic Revival in English Literature, 1845-1961 (2003).

Inhaltsangabe

1: The Early Years
2: Publishing and Engagement
3: Marriage and Fame
4: Controversy
5: Dickens
6: Orthodoxy
7: Shaw and Beaconsfield
8: Father Brown and the Marconi Scandal
9: The Victorian Compromise and Illness
10: War and Travel
11: America and Conversation
12: The Everlasting Man
13: Distributism and Apologetics
14: Rome and America Again
15: The Last Years