G. K. Chesterton: A Biography - Paperback
by Ian Ker
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Language:EnglishPublisher:OUP OxfordISBN-13:9780199655762ISBN-10:199655766UPC:9780199655762Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Historical, EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:9.10 x 6.00 x 1.70 inchesWeight:2.5022Product ID:SCYTRRDM72
G. K. Chesterton: A Biography
G. K. Chesterton is remembered as a brilliant creator of nonsense and satirical verse, author of the Father Brown stories and the innovative novel, The Man who was Thursday, and yet today he is not counted among the major English novelists and poets. However, this major new biography argues that Chesterton should be seen as the successor of the great Victorian prose writers, Carlyle, Arnold,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:OUP OxfordISBN-13:9780199655762ISBN-10:199655766UPC:9780199655762Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Historical, EuropeanBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:9.10 x 6.00 x 1.70 inchesWeight:2.5022Product ID:SCYTRRDM72
Ian Ker has taught both English literature and theology in universities in the United States and Britain, where he currently teaches in the Oxford theology faculty. He is the author and editor of more than twenty books on Newman, including John Henry Newman: A Biography (1988), as well as the author of The Catholic Revival in English Literature, 1845-1961 (2003).
Publisher: OUP Oxford
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