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The "Prince of Paradox" is at his witty best in this collection of 20 essays and articles. Focusing on "heretics" — those who pride themselves in their superiority to conservative views — Chesterton appraises prominent figures from the literary and art worlds who fall into that category, including Kipling, Shaw, Wells, and Whistler.

Social criticism based on his journalistic work, first published in 1905.

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The "Prince of Paradox" is at his witty best in this collection of 20 essays and articles. Focusing on "heretics" — those who pride themselves in their superiority to conservative views — Chesterton appraises prominent figures from the literary and art worlds who fall into that category, including Kipling, Shaw, Wells, and Whistler.

Social criticism based on his journalistic work, first published in 1905.

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"GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON (1874 – 1936) Chesterton wrote around 80 books, several hundred poems, some 200 short stories, 4000 essays, and several plays. He was a literary and social critic, historian, playwright, novelist, Catholic theologian and apologist, debater, and mystery writer. He was a columnist for the Daily News, the Illustrated London News, and his own paper, G. K.'s Weekly; he also wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica.
Chesterton's style and thinking were all his own, however, and his conclusions were often opposed to those of Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw. In his book Heretics, Chesterton has this to say of Wilde: "The same lesson [of the pessimistic pleasure-seeker] was taught by the very powerful and very desolate philosophy of Oscar Wilde. It is the carpe diem religion; but the carpe diem religion is not the religion of happy people, but of very unhappy people. Great joy does not gather the rosebuds while it may; its eyes are fixed on the immortal rose which Dante saw."[19] More briefly, and with a closer approximation of Wilde's own style, he writes in Orthodoxy concerning the necessity of making symbolic sacrifices for the gift of creation: "Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde."

Chesterton and Shaw were famous friends and enjoyed their arguments and discussions. Although rarely in agreement, they both maintained good-will toward and respect for each other. However, in his writing, Chesterton expressed himself very plainly on where they differed and why. In Heretics he writes of Shaw:

After belabouring a great many people for a great many years for being unprogressive, Mr. Shaw has discovered, with characteristic sense, that it is very doubtful whether any existing human being with two legs can be progressive at all. Having come to doubt whether humanity can be combined with progress, most people, easily pleased, would have elected to abandon progress and remain with humanity. Mr. Shaw, not being easily pleased, decides to throw over humanity with all its limitations and go in for progress for its own sake. If man, as we know him, is incapable of the philosophy of progress, Mr. Shaw asks, not for a new kind of philosophy, but for a new kind of man." --Wikipedia

Table of Contents


Preface     vii
Introductory Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy     1
On the Negative Spirit     10
On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and making the World Small     19
Mr. Bernard Shaw     29
Mr. H. G. Wells and the Giants     38
Christmas and the AEsthetes     53
Omar and the Sacred Vine     60
The Mildness of the Yellow Press     67
The Moods of Mr. George Moore     77
On Sandals and Simplicity     81
Science and the Savages     86
Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson     93
Celts and Celtophiles     105
On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family     110
On Smart Novelists and the Smart Set     121
On Mr. McCabe and a Divine Frivolity     134
On the Wit of Whistler     146
The Fallacy of the Young Nation     154
Slum Novelists and the Slums     167
Concluding Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy     178
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  • Anonymous

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    Excellent in places, but Othodoxy is Chesterton's best

    This was scanned in, so errors appear about once every five lines, still readable however. If you have not read Chesterton, read his Orthodoxy. Heretics is a collection of his critiques of his commtemporary thinkers, many of whom may not be famikiar to you.r

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