Varied Types

by G. K. Chesterton

Overview

One thing this prescient book achieves--and possibly the reason Chesterton wrote it--is to show just how varied such types can be. Our own time (and he must have foreseen it) for all its electronic wizardry and lightening communication, is devoid of much true diversity of personality, talent and perspective. The infantile nature of modern political debate is a perfect example. Really, there is no debate at all, just cartoonish demonising of one's opponent. Nor is there any particular yearning for fundamental truth. (Goodreads)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783962728618
Publisher:	Otbebookpublishing
Publication date:	01/11/2019
Series:	Classics To Go
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	103
File size:	566 KB

About the Author

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936), was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox". Time magazine has observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out." Chesterton is well known for his fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and for his reasoned apologetics. Even some of those who disagree with him have recognised the wide appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an "orthodox" Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting to Catholicism from High Church Anglicanism. George Bernard Shaw, his "friendly enemy", said of him, "He was a man of colossal genius". (Wikipedia)

Table of Contents

Charlotte Bronte

William Morris And His School

The Optimism Of Byron

Pope And The Art Of Satire

Francis

Rostand

Charles II.

Stevenson

Thomas Carlyle

Tolstoy And The Cult Of Simplicity

Savonarola

The Position Of Sir Walter Scott

Bret Harte

Alfred The Great

Maeterlinck

Ruskin

Queen Victoria

The German Emperor

Tennyson

Elizabeth Barrett Browning