| Description |
vii, 314 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Chesterton for all -- Excerpts from Autobiography -- Religious poems: "The donkey" ; "The ballad of god-makers" ; "Ultimate" ; "The wood-cutter" ; "The convert" ; "The song of the children" ; "The happy man" ; "A hymn" -- Chesterton and America: Introduction ; Selection from What I saw in America ; Selections from Sidelights on New London and Newer York ; "Back to the cherry tree" ; "On Abraham Lincoln" ; "On myself on Abraham Lincoln" -- "On lying in bed" -- Reason, progress, education: Essay excerpts ; "The Fallacy of success" ; "On business education" ; "On experience" ; "The revival of philosophy--why?" -- "The little birds who won't sing" -- Excerpts from Orthodoxy -- Marriage, family, woman: Essay excerpts ; "Marriage and the modern mind" ; "The drift from democracy" ; "Woman" ; "The modern surrender of women" -- Humorous poems: "The song of right and wrong" ; "Wine and water" ; True sympathy" ; "On reading 'God'" ; "Irresponsible outbreak of one who-- " ; "Commercial candour" ; "Lines to a friend apprehensive of a shortage of food in Beaconsfield" ; "G.K. Chesterton" -- Religion, morality, theology, heresy: Essay excerpts ; "The outline of liberty" ; " The new case of Catholic schools" ; "Babies and distributism" ; " On man : heir of all the ages" -- "If I had only one sermon to preach" -- The Father Brown stories: The origin of Father Brown ; Father Brown, Flambeau, and Grandison Chace ; The conclusion of "The Hammer of God" ; The conclusion of "The chief mourner of Marne" ; The last paragraph -- Excerpts from St. Thomas Aquinas -- The architect of spears -- Social and political poems: "Elegy in a country churchyard" ; "By a reactionary" ; "The secret people" ; "The old song" ; "The appeal of the peers" -- Society, history, politics: Essay excerpts ; "About education" ; "On turnpikes and medievalism" ; "The fool" -- Short quotations -- Sunsets, rain, cauliflowers, etc. -- Literature and some its creators: Essay excerpts ; "On a censorship for literature" ; "The young man in fiction" ; "Dragooning the dragon" -- "Humanity--an interlude" -- Christmas poems: "The house of Christmas" ; "A child of the snows" ; "The wise men" ; "The nativity" ; "Gloria in profundis" ; "A Christmas carol" -- Chesterton for today. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 -- Religious aspects.
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Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 (OCoLC)fst00031617
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Authors, English -- 19th century.
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Authors, English -- 20th century.
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Authors, English. (OCoLC)fst00821945
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Religious aspects. (OCoLC)fst01354418
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1999
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| Added Author |
Knille, Robert.
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| Added Title |
Works. Selections. 1985
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Chesterton, G.K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936. Selections. 1985. As I was saying. Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., ©1985 (OCoLC)567620430 |
| ISBN |
080283597X |
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9780802835970 |
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