G. K. Chesterton

The Victorian Age in Literature (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Victorian Age in Literature, published in 1913, Chesterton leaps into a concise overview of the outstanding writers of this eradiscussing such poets as Robert Browning, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Matthew Arnold as well as the great novelists Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Charles Reade. He writes with his own unmistakable brand of witty bravado, meditating on how George Eliot would write a Dickens character, or remarking that George Meredith was really, at his best, a sort of daintily dressed Walt Whitman.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Barnes & Noble
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781411463905
• Artikelnr.: 37871748

Autorenporträt

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was known as the prince of paradox, and a prolific and influential English writer known for the wide-range of his talents, which included mysteries, fantasies, and Christian apologetics. A spirited Catholic polemicist, he was the author of the beloved Father Brown mysteries, as well as of the classic metaphysical thriller, The Man Who Was Thursday.