Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 – 1936)
I like reading very much. One of my favourite writers is Gilbert Keith Chesterton. You should know him, in our 4th year we read 2 stories by Chesterton: The Tremendous Adventure of Major Brown from the collection of stories The Club of Queer Trades (about the agency which provided its clients with adventures), and The Blast of the Book from the famous cycle about Father Brown (about the false “mysterious disappearance” of 5 men invented by the clerk of Professor Openshaw).
Chesterton is very famous in England, he is very original writer, I’ve never read anything like that. Some people consider him as the master of detective story, you know perhaps his famous cycle about Father Brown. Others prefer his essays, novels, plays or poems. In whole, he wrote about 80 books: 200 stories, 4000 essays, several hundred of poems, some plays, 6 novels (The Napoleon of Notting Hill, The Man Who Was Thursday, The Flying Inn, The Ball and the Cross, The Return of Don Quixote (1926), Manalive). He was a literary and social critic, historian, Catholic theologian and apologist. Chesterton is well known for his reasoned apologetics (works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man). He was a journalist for the Illustrated London News; he also wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica. His works are characteristic for paradoxicality (Chesterton has been called the “prince of paradox”), unexpectedness, incredibility of situations. But he considered moral preaching as his principal work. His books can be source of joy, of amusement, as well as they can provoke deep reflexions.
Chesterton was born in1874 inthe family of businessman, though his father not so much engaged in business as painted, made a puppet theatre for children or published home-made books. Gilbert’s parents were good people, so his childhood was happy. In the private school he did nothing but wrote poems, articles, letters; but all his works were very good, sometimes surprisingly
I like reading very much. One of my favourite writers is Gilbert Keith Chesterton. You should know him, in our 4th year we read 2 stories by Chesterton: The Tremendous Adventure of Major Brown from the collection of stories The Club of Queer Trades (about the agency which provided its clients with adventures), and The Blast of the Book from the famous cycle about Father Brown (about the false “mysterious disappearance” of 5 men invented by the clerk of Professor Openshaw).
Chesterton is very famous in England, he is very original writer, I’ve never read anything like that. Some people consider him as the master of detective story, you know perhaps his famous cycle about Father Brown. Others prefer his essays, novels, plays or poems. In whole, he wrote about 80 books: 200 stories, 4000 essays, several hundred of poems, some plays, 6 novels (The Napoleon of Notting Hill, The Man Who Was Thursday, The Flying Inn, The Ball and the Cross, The Return of Don Quixote (1926), Manalive). He was a literary and social critic, historian, Catholic theologian and apologist. Chesterton is well known for his reasoned apologetics (works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man). He was a journalist for the Illustrated London News; he also wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica. His works are characteristic for paradoxicality (Chesterton has been called the “prince of paradox”), unexpectedness, incredibility of situations. But he considered moral preaching as his principal work. His books can be source of joy, of amusement, as well as they can provoke deep reflexions.
Chesterton was born in1874 inthe family of businessman, though his father not so much engaged in business as painted, made a puppet theatre for children or published home-made books. Gilbert’s parents were good people, so his childhood was happy. In the private school he did nothing but wrote poems, articles, letters; but all his works were very good, sometimes surprisingly