The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 33: The Illustrated London News 1923-1925

by G.K. Chesterton, George J. Marlin (Editor), Lawrence J. Clipper (Editor)

Chesterton, G. K.

Genres: Essays, Nonfiction

697 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1990

About the author

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic.

He was educated at St. Paul’s, and went to art school at University College London. In 1900, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time. He wrote a hundred books, contributions to 200 more, hundreds of poems, including the epic Ballad of the White Horse, five plays, five novels, and some two hundred short stories, including a popular series featuring the priest-detective, Father Brown. In spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist. He wrote over 4000 newspaper essays, including 30 years worth of weekly columns for the Illustrated London News, and 13 years of weekly columns for the Daily News. He also edited his own newspaper, G.K.’s Weekly.

Chesterton was equally at ease with literary and social criticism, history, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology.

Reviews

[Mary Catelli]

A collection of his columns on various topics. Loeb and Leopold. Mary Queen of Scots. The notion of Progress. Bolshevism, and also British politics as affected by them. Education, in particularly the pretense of education in common. On how historians make allowances for the limits of past time, and none for their own. And many other topics.