The Defendant (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by G. K. Chesterton

Overview

This collection comprises Chestertonian “defenses” of penny dreadfuls, rash vows, skeletons, publicity, nonsense, planets, China shepherdesses, useful information, heraldry, ugly things, farce, humility, slang, baby-worship, detective stories, patriotism—he even defends the very existence of his own book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411445178
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	02/22/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	180
File size:	168 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was a prolific and influential English writer known for the wide-range of his talents, which included mysteries, fantasies, and Christian apologetics.  A spirited Catholic polemicist, he was the author of the beloved Father Brown mysteries, as well as of the classic metaphysical thriller, The Man Who Was Thursday.