# The Everyman Chesterton: Edited and Introduced by Ian Ker - Hardcover

by **G. K. Chesterton** (Author), **Ian Ker** (Editor), **Ian Ker** (Introduction by)

The first one-volume reader of the best of G. K. Chesterton's writing in the full range of genres he mastered.

Chesterton was a towering literary figure of the early twentieth century, accomplished and prolific in many literary forms. A forceful proponent of Christianity and a critic of both conservatism and liberalism, he set out to describe nothing less than the spiritual journey of humanity in _Orthodoxy_ and _The Everlasting Man,_ his most enduring books. He is famous as well for his beloved Father Brown detective stories, his satirical and comic verse, his profoundly witty paradoxes and aphorisms, and his penetrating studies of such figures as Charles Dickens, St. Francis of Assisi, and St. Thomas Aquinas. _The Everyman Chesterton_ contains samples of his poems, stories, essays, and biographies, as well as the influential works of religious, political, and social thought in which he championed the common man and for which he is most admired.

Table of Contents:

AUTOBIOGRAPHY  
Hearsay Evidence  
The Man with the Golden Key

CHARLES DICKENS  
The Dickens Period  
The Boyhood of Dickens  
The Youth of Dickens  
The Pickwick Papers  
The Great Popularity  
Dickens and America  
Dickens and Christmas  
The Time of Transition  
Later Life and Works  
The Great Dickens Characters  
On the Alleged Optimism of Dickens  
A Note on the Future of Dickens

THE VICTORIAN AGE IN LITERATURE  
The Victorian Compromise and Its Enemies  
The Great Victorian Novelists  
The Great Victorian Poets

ORTHODOXY  
Introduction in Defence of Everything Else  
The Maniac  
The Suicide of Thought  
The Ethics of Elfland  
The Flag of the World  
The Paradoxes of Christianity  
The Eternal Revolution  
The Romance of Orthodoxy  
Authority and the Adventurer

THE EVERLASTING MAN  
Introduction: The Plan of This Book  
The Riddles of the Gospel  
The Strangest Story in the World  
The Witness of the Heretics  
The Escape from Paganism  
The Five Deaths of the Faith  
Conclusion: The Summary of This Book

ST THOMAS AQUINAS  
On Two Friars  
The Aristotelian Revolution  
A Meditation on the Manichees  
The Approach to Thomism  
The Permanent Philosophy  
The Sequel to St Thomas

FATHER BROWN STORIES  
The Blue Cross  
The Queer Feet  
The Wrong Shape  
The Resurrection of Father Brown  
The Miracle of Moon Crescent  
The Dagger with Wings  
The Doom of the Darnaways  
The Song of the Flying Fish  
The Red Moon of Meru  
The Chief Mourner of Marne  
The Scandal of Father Brown  
The Quick One  
The Blast of the Book  
The Green Man  
The Crime of the Communist  
The Vampire of the Village

POEMS  
Wine and Water  
Antichrist, or the Reunion of Christendom: An Ode  
Elegy in a Country Churchyard  
Lepanto  
The Secret People  
The Rolling English Road  
The Donkey

### Author Biography

**G. K. Chesterton** was born in England in 1874 and died in 1936.

**Ian Ker** is a Senior Research Fellow at St. Benet's Hall, Oxford University; he is the author of a biography of G. K. Chesterton to be published by Oxford University Press in 2011.

**Number of Pages:** 952

**Dimensions:** 1.72 x 8.21 x 5.35 IN

**Publication Date:** April 05, 2011

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