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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

by Maisie E. Ward

Pages: 578

Contributors: Maisie E. Ward

Publisher: Sheed & Ward

Place of Publication: London

Publication Year: 1944

Subjects: Chesterton, G. K--(Gilbert Keith),--1874-1936

Table of Contents

Title Page

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction Chiefly Concerning Sources

Chapter I Background for Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Chapter II Childhood

Chapter III School Days

Chapter IV Art Schools and University College

Chapter V the Notebook

Chapter VI Towards a Career

Chapter VII Incipit Vita Nova

Chapter VIII to Frances

Chapter IX a Long Engagement

Chapter X Who is G.K.C. ?

Chapter XI Married Life in London

Chapter XII Clearing the Ground for Orthodoxy

Chapter XIII Orthodoxy

Chapter XIV Bernard Shaw

Chapter XV from Battersea to Beaconsfield (1909-11)

Chapter XVI a Circle of Friends

Chapter XVII the Disillusioned Liberal

Chapter XVIII the Eye Witness

Chapter XIX Marconi

Chapter XX the Eve of the War (1911-1915)

Chapter XXI the War Years

Chapter XXII After the Armistice

Chapter XXIII Rome Via Jerusalem

Chapter XXIV Completion

Chapter XXV the Reluctant Editor (1925-1930)

Chapter XVII the Distributist League and Distributism

Chapter XXVII Silver Wedding

Chapter XXVIII Columbus

Chapter XXIX the Soft Answer

Chapter XXX Our Lady's Tumbler

Chapter XXXI the Living Voice

Chapter XXXII Last Days

Appendices

Bibliography

Index

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