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Defiant Joy is a powerful narrative of Chesterton's life through his literary accomplishments. Amid currents of modernity that sought to displace the Christian faith, Chesterton challenged thought leaders of his day with civility, erudition, and wit, contending that faith is the central... read more
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, one of the twentieth century's most gifted men of letters, was born on 29 May, 1874, at Campden Hill, Kensington--a district of West London, England.
Table of Contents edit
Author's Note
Prologue
1. "My Earliest Path"
2. "From Childhood to Boyhood"
3. A Perfect Storm
4. And Now for a Career
5. An Artist in Words
6. Eternal Ideas
7. "Varied Types"
8. The Tower That Strikes the Stars
9. Heretics and First Things
10. No Definite Image of Good
11. Mr. Dickens's Champion
12. Why "Orthodoxy" Matters
13. A Melodramatic Sort of Moonshine
14. Chesterton, Mencken, and Shaw
15. The Advent of Father Brown
16. The Great Ballad
17. Mr. Shaw's Insistent Demand
18. The Toast of London
19. A Near Closing of the Curtain
20. "What I Saw In America"
21. Saint Francis
22. Over to You, Mr. Wells
23. Chaucer
24. The Pillar of the Apennines
25. Men Must Endure Their Going Hence
Epilogue: A Near View of the Man as He Was
Acknowledgments
A Chesterton Timeline
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author
Authors & Contributors edit
- Kevin Charles Belmonte (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 9781595552013
Page Count: 336
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 9781595552013
Page Count: 336
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 828.91209
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