G.K. Chesterton (1874–1936)
Autore di L'uomo che fu Giovedì: storia di un incubo
Sull'Autore
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England, in 1874. He began his education at St Paul's School, and later went on to study art at the Slade School, and literature at University College in London. Chesterton wrote a great deal of poetry, as well as works of social and literary criticism. mostra altro Among his most notable books are The Man Who Was Thursday, a metaphysical thriller, and The Everlasting Man, a history of humankind's spiritual progress. After Chesterton converted to Catholicism in 1922, he wrote mainly on religious topics. Chesterton is most known for creating the famous priest-detective character Father Brown, who first appeared in "The Innocence of Father Brown." Chesterton died in 1936 at the age of 62. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di G.K. Chesterton
The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. 01: Heretics, Orthodoxy, the Blatchford Controversies (1986) 326 copie
Eugenetica e altri malanni : ragionamenti contro l'organizzazione scientifica della società (1922) 264 copie
The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton, Volume 2 : The Everlasting Man, St. Francis of Assisi, St Thomas Aquinas (1986) 209 copie
Brave New Family: G.K. Chesterton on Men and Women, Children, Sex, Divorce, Marriage and the Family (1990) 160 copie
The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. 03: Where All Roads Lead, The Catholic Church and Conversion, The Thing:… (1922) 137 copie
The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. 06: The Club of Queer Trades, The Napoleon of Notting Hill, The Man Who… (1904) 131 copie
The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. 04: What's Wrong with the World, The Superstition of Divorce, Eugenics… (1987) 96 copie
The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. 05: The Outline of Sanity, The End of the Armistice, Utopia of Usurers,… (1987) 89 copie
The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. 14: Short Stories, Fairy Tales, Mystery Stories, Illustrations (1993) 67 copie
The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. 21: What I Saw in America, The Resurrection of Rome, Sidelights (1990) 67 copie
The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. 29: The Illustrated London News, 1911-1913 (1988) 56 copie
Lent and Easter Wisdom from G.K. Chesterton: Daily Scripture and Prayers Together with G.K. Chesterton's Own Words (2008) 52 copie
The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. 30: The Illustrated London News, 1914-1916 (1988) 51 copie
The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. 11: Collected Plays, Chesterton on Shaw (1989) 51 copie
The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. 12: Father Brown Stories, Part 1: The Innocence of Father Brown, The… (2005) 50 copie
The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. 07: The Ball and the Cross, Manalive, The Flying Inn (1991) 49 copie
The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. 32: The Illustrated London News, 1920-1922 (1989) 49 copie
The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. 18: Thomas Carlyle, Leo Tolstoy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Chaucer (1988) 47 copie
A G.K. Chesterton omnibus,: Containing The Napoleon of Notting Hill, The man who was Thursday, The flying inn (1936) 45 copie
The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. 28: The Illustrated London News, 1908-1910 (1987) 44 copie
The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. 31: The Illustrated London News, 1917-1919 (1989) 44 copie
The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. 34: The Illustrated London News, 1926-1928 (1991) 43 copie
The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. 33: The Illustrated London News, 1923-1925 (1990) 43 copie
The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. 27: The Illustrated London News, 1905-1907 (1986) 43 copie
The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. 20: Christendom in Dublin, Irish Impressions, The New Jerusalem, A Short… (2001) 42 copie
The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. 08: The Return of Don Quixote, Tales of the Long Bow, The Man Who Knew… (1999) 35 copie
The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. 13: Father Brown Stories, Part 2: The Incredulity of Father Brown, The… (2005) 34 copie
The Universe According to G. K. Chesterton: A Dictionary of the Mad, Mundane and Metaphysical (Dover Books on… (2011) 31 copie
The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. 35: The Illustrated London News, 1929-1931 (1992) 31 copie
The Story of the Family: G.K. Chesterton on the Only State that Creates and Loves Its Own Citizens (2022) 24 copie
Father Brown Crime Stories 22 copie
The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. 37: The Illustrated London News, 1935-1936 (2012) 20 copie
The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. 36: The Illustrated London News, 1932-1934 (2011) 17 copie
The Third Way: Foundations of Distributism As Contained in the Writings of Pope Blessed Leo XIII and Gilbert K.… (2012) 16 copie
Classic British Literature: Works of G.K. Chesterton, 29 books in a single file with active table of contents (2008) 14 copie
Chesterton on War and Peace: Battling the Ideas and Movements that Led to Nazism and World War II (2008) 13 copie
[unidentified works] 13 copie
Chesterton Classics Collection: Orthodoxy, Heretics, What’s Wrong With The World, What I Saw In America (2020) 13 copie
Chesterton Fiction Collection: The Napoleon of Notting Hill, The Man Who Was Thursday, The Ball and the Cross,… (2020) 11 copie
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: A Collection of Victorian-Era Detective Stories (Dover Mystery Classics) (2019) 10 copie
Las Aventuras Del Padre Brown / The Adventures of Father Brown (Clasicos De Siempre/ Cuentos / Always Classics /… (2000) 10 copie
The Father Brown Omnibus: Including The Innocence of Father Brown; The Wisdom of Father Brown; The Incredulity of… (1927) 10 copie
The Father Brown Mysteries: The Blue Cross / The Secret Garden / The Queer Feet / The Arrow of Heaven: A Radio… (2011) 9 copie
The Chesterton Review; Vol. XXXVI, Nos 3 & 4,Fall/Winter 2010,Seton Hall University,NJ (2010) 9 copie
The Chesterton Reader: 21 Works in One Volume (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics) (2009) 9 copie
Famous Paintings Selected from the World's Great Galleries and Reproduced in Colour (2 vols.) (1915) 9 copie
G. K. Chesterton Collection: Orthodoxy, Heretics, The Innocence of Father Brown, & All Things Considered (2017) 8 copie
Den oöverträffade fader Brown 7 copie
Napoleon z Notting Hillu ; Létající hospoda ; Návrat Dona Quijota (The Napoleon of Notting Hill, The Flying Inn,… (1965) 6 copie
G. K. Chesterton's Early Poetry: Greybeards at Play, The Wild Knight and Other Poems, The Ballad of the White Horse (2004) 6 copie
Works of Gilbert Keith Chesterton. (350 Works) Includes The Innocence of Father Brown, The Man Who Was Thursday,… (2009) 6 copie
The Wit, Whimsy, and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton, Volume 2: The Club of Queer Trades, The Man Who Was Thursday, The Man… (2009) 5 copie
OBRAS SELECTAS - EL CANDOR DEL PADRE BROWN - LA SABIDURÍA DEL PADRE BROWN - LA INCREDULIDAD DEL PADRE BROWN - EL… (1974) 5 copie
The Wit, Whimsy, and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton, Volume 5: All Things Considered, Tremendous Trifles, Alarms and… (2009) 5 copie
Isa Browni lugusid 4 copie
The Doom of the Darnaways 4 copie
The Wit, Whimsy, and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton, Volume 1: The Napoleon of Notting Hill, The Flying Inn, The Trees of… (2009) 4 copie
The Vampire of the Village 4 copie
Chesterton Essays 4 copie
The Wit, Whimsy, and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton, Volume 4: Heretics, Orthodoxy, What's Wrong with the World (2009) 4 copie
The Eye of Apollo [short story] 3 copie
Cheese 3 copie
Příběhy otce Browna 3 copie
Uncollected Father Brown Stories by G. K. Chesterton (Illustrated) (Delphi Parts Edition (G. K. Chesterton)) (2017) 3 copie
British Mystery Multipack Vol. 12 - The G. K. Chesterton Collection: 24 Father Brown mysteries 2 mystery novels, The… (2016) 3 copie
The Dagger and Wings and Other Father Brown Stories (Oxford Progressive English Readers) (1984) 3 copie
The G.K. Chesterton Calendar: A Quotation From the Works of G. K. Chesterton for Every day in the Year (2015) 3 copie
The Fame of Blessed Thomas More: Being Addresses Delivered in His Honour in Chelsea, July 1929 (1929) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
The Superstitions of the Sceptic 3 copie
Tėvas Braunas 3 copie
Strategy Six Pack 9 – The Revenant Hugh Glass, Andersonville, The Goths, Alexander Hamilton, Pericles and A Short… (2016) 3 copie
The Miscellaneous Chesterton: Introductions, Essays, and Occasional Pieces by G. K. Chesterton (2019) 2 copie
I racconti di Padre Brown 2 copie
British Mystery Multipacks Volume 7 – The Detectives: Father Brown, Lady Molly of Scotland Yard, The Old Man in… (2015) 2 copie
El amor o La fuerza del sino : ensayos y poesía sobre el matrimonio, el amor, los niños, el divorcio y la… (2017) 2 copie
Quotable Chesterton 2 copie
Catholic Family Book Club - St. Francis of Assisi, Nor Scrip Nor Shoes, The Salvation of Pisco Gabar, Brother Petroc's… (1960) 2 copie
The Rolling English Road 2 copie
Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by G. K. Chesterton: Appreciations and Criticisms of the… (1911) 2 copie
Great work of G. K. Chesterton 2 copie
The Father Brown Mysteries: The Oracle of the Dog / The Miracle of Moon Crescent / The Green Man / The Quick One [sound… (2011) 2 copie
Father Brown Stories - Volume 1 2 copie
O tempero da vida 2 copie
Fader Browns Hemlighet 2 copie
Father Brown Large Print Mysteries: The Wisdom of Father Brown Illustrated (Father Brown Paperback) 2 copie
The Chesterton Review----Vol. 15 2 copie
War of the Usurpers [CHESTERTON] 2 copie
The Quick One 2 copie
The Surprise 2 copie
10 Books on Theology, Tyranny and Literature Heretics, Orthodoxy, What's Wrong with the World, Eugenics and Other… (2016) 2 copie
Chesterton's Mysteries: 6-The Scandal of Father Brown, the Paradoxes of MR Pond Plus Six Bonus Tales (2009) 2 copie
The Resurrection of Father Brown 2 copie
Obras completas. 4 Tomos 2 copie
The Ghost of Gideon Wise 2 copie
The Chesterton Review---17 2 copie
LOS CLÁSICOS DEL SIGLO XX 2 copie
The Chesterton Review----Vols.16 2 copie
Príhody pátra Browna 2 copie
The Miracle of Moon Crescent 2 copie
CUATRO GRANUJAS SIN TACHA 2 copie
The Father Brown Mysteries: The Flying Stars / The Point of a Pin / The Three Tools of Death / The Invisible Man [sound… (2011) 1 copia
Der Spiegel. Essays. 1 copia
The Poet & The Lunatics. 1 copia
La sorpresa a altri piccoli doni 1 copia
Chesterton and the Universe 1 copia
Por qué soy cristiano 1 copia
Все расследования отца Брауна 1 copia
Collected Works 1 copia
The Colored Lands 1 copia
Странные шаги 1 copia
La utilidad de leer 2021 1 copia
Magia - Una comedia fantástica 1 copia
Time and Tide anthology 1 copia
A jámbor Brown atya 1 copia
Ortodoksja 1 copia
Charlas 1 copia
Pater Brown 03 1 copia
Pater Brown 01 1 copia
Le défenseur 1 copia
Pater Brown: Der Unsichtbare 1 copia
Obrona wiary 1 copia
Father Brown: The Blue Cross 1 copia
OBRA SELECTA 1 copia
Obrona wiary 1 copia
Svētais Akvīnas Toms : Gilberta K. Čestertona, Pētera Stroda, Staņislava Ladusāna SJ, Larisas Čuhinas… (1993) 1 copia
Рассказы 1 copia
The Fallacy of Success 1 copia
Najlepšie je nevypovedané 1 copia
Wege am Rande des Abgrunds 1 copia
Писатель в газете 1 copia
The Works of G.K. Chesterton 1 copia
The Invisible Man 1 copia
Die grosse Pater Brown Box VII : 6 Hörspiele ; Nur im Gefängnis sicher. Wo der Pater starb. Die Entführung von Baby… (2006) 1 copia
Lo specchio del magistrato 1 copia
Las quintaesencias. 1 copia
The Fad of the Fisherman 1 copia
The Green Man (Selected Stories) 1 copia
A Nova Jerusalém 1 copia
Chesterton's Mysteries: 3-The Man Who Knew Too Much, the Trees of Pride & Tales of the Long Bow (2009) 1 copia
ブラウン神父の童心【新版】 (創元推理文庫) 1 copia
G. K.'S: A Miscellany Of The First 500 Issues Of G. K.'S Weekly, With An Introduction By G. K. Chesterton (1936) 1 copia
Chesterton Anthology 1 copia
Pisadas extrañas 1 copia
The Black Veil 1 copia
Classic Crime 2: The Thin Man, The Innocence of Father Brown & The Face On the Cutting-Room Floor 1 copia
The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. 28-35: The Illustrated London News, 1908-1931 (1987) 1 copia
G K Chesterton's Christian Writings (Unabridged): Everlasting Man, Orthodoxy, Heretics, St Francis of Assisi, St.… (2012) 1 copia
More Quotable Chesterton: A Topical Compilation of the Wit, Wisdom, and Satire of G.K. Chesterton (1988-09-03) (1801) 1 copia
Paradoks 1 copia
What is Right With the World 1 copia
G.K. Chesterton: criticism 1 copia
Avonturen van Father Brown I 1 copia
Avonturen van Father Brown II 1 copia
Father Brown (Gesammelte Krimis): Priester und Detektiv: Der geheime Garten Das Verhängnis der Darnaways Das blaue… (2015) 1 copia
The secret of father Brown and another short story = El secreto del padre Brown y otro relato (2012) 1 copia
EL MUNDO AL REVES 1 copia
Five Essays: The Optimism of Byron; Pope and the Art of Satire; Stevenson; Rostand; Charles II (Little Blue Book/Ten… (1921) 1 copia
The blue cross = La cruz azul =: The secret of father Brown = El secreto del padre Brown (2014) 1 copia
Obras completas. II 1 copia
Os Paradoxos do Cristianismo 1 copia
3 NOVELS: The Napoleon of Notting Hill, The Man Who Was Thursday, The Ball and the Cross, (2016) 1 copia
Selected Essay and More 1 copia
The Wise Men 1 copia
The sign of the broken sword and other Father Brown stories = Znamení zlomeného meče a jiné… (2007) 1 copia
Chesterton's Mysteries: 4-The Incredulity of Father Brown & The Secret of Father Brown (2009) 1 copia
The Bolt from the Blue 1 copia
The Perfect Game 1 copia
The Extraordinary Cabman 1 copia
Orthodoxy and Other Novels 1 copia
Two by Chesterton 1 copia
El Cinc d'espases 1 copia
Fader Browns mesterstykker 1 copia
The Tower of Babel [short story] 1 copia
A Defence of Detective Stories 1 copia
Father Brown detective stories 1 copia
Book of Children's Poems 1 copia
G. K. Chesterton [Short Stories] 1 copia
The Ball and the Cross 1 copia
The Father Brown Mysteries: The Actor and the Alibi / The Worst Crime in the World / The Insoluble Problem / The Eye of… (2012) 1 copia
A Study of Charles Dickens 1 copia
Collected Works, vol. 17 1 copia
Fr. Brown on Chesterton 1 copia
Esė (rinktinė) 1 copia
Culture and the Coming Peril 1 copia
Christmas and the professors 1 copia
The tomato in prose & prosody 1 copia
Tennyson 1 copia
If I were a preacher 1 copia
El perfil de la cordura 1 copia
El mago 1 copia
Desde la biblioteca: Chesterton 1 copia
OBRAS COMPLETAS 1 copia
The Purple Wig [short story] 1 copia
Christmas poems 1 copia
G.K. Chesterton: The Father Brown Illustrated Collection: (Bauer Classics) (All Time Best Writers Book 10) (2020) 1 copia
The Man Who Was Thursday 1 copia
Father Brown Selected Stories 1 copia
The Ballad Of The White Horse 1 copia
Chesterton Classics Collection: Orthodoxy Heretics What’s Wrong With The World What I Saw In America 1 copia
“The Donkey” 1 copia
L'uomo che fu giovedì 1 copia
The G.K. Chesterton Collection 1 copia
A Chesterton Anthology 1 copia
Father Brown Mysteries Collection 5 Books Box Set By G.K Chesterton (Innocence, Wisdom, Incredulity, Secret & Scandal) (2023) 1 copia
Saint Thomas Aquinas 1 copia
The Illustrated London News 1929-1931 (Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. 35) by G. K. Chesterton (1992-04-01) (1870) 1 copia
Collected Works Volume 1 1 copia
A Treasury of Father Brown Mysteries The Innocence of Father Brown & The Wisdom of Father Brown: Two Complete &… (2015) 1 copia
The Curse of the Golden Cross 1 copia
The Crime of the Communist 1 copia
The Insoluble Problem 1 copia
The Father Brown Stories, I 1 copia
An Anthology of Humorous Stories 1 copia
The Scales of Justice 1 copia
The Annotated Thursday 1 copia
O Sobrenatural é Natural 1 copia
The Everlasting Man 1 copia
Outras Histórias do Padre Brown 1 copia
Classic British Literature 1 copia
El hombre común 1 copia
La prensa se equivoca y otras obviedades: Artículos 1908 (NUEVO ENSAYO) (Spanish Edition) (2020) 1 copia
Our Notebook. Volume I 1 copia
Igreja Católica e Conversão 1 copia
Historias del padre brown 1 copia
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A Study in Scarlet / The Hound of the Baskervilles (1887) — Postfazione, alcune edizioni — 641 copie
Great Detectives: A Century of the Best Mysteries from England and America (1984) — Collaboratore — 358 copie
Detection by Gaslight: 14 Victorian Detective Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) (1997) — Collaboratore — 184 copie
The Dead Witness: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories (2011) — Collaboratore — 139 copie
Tales Before Narnia: The Roots of Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction (2008) — Collaboratore — 114 copie
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Miraculous Mysteries: Locked Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes (2017) — Collaboratore — 106 copie
Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated) (2011) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 77 copie
Ghosts from the Library: Lost Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2023) — Collaboratore — 48 copie
Thou Shalt Not Kill: Father Brown, Father Dowling and Other Ecclesiastical Sleuths (1865) — Collaboratore — 46 copie
The Edge of the Chair: A Superlative Collection, Some Fact, Some Fiction, All Suspense (1967) — Collaboratore — 42 copie
The Mystery Hall of Fame: An Anthology of Classic Mystery and Suspense Stories (1984) — Collaboratore — 32 copie
The English Way: Studies in English Sanctity from St. Bede to Newman (1933) — Collaboratore — 30 copie
The Roads from Bethlehem: Christmas Literature from Writers Ancient and Modern (1993) — Collaboratore — 29 copie
Kingfisher Christmas Book: A Collection of Stories, Poems and Carols for the Twelve Days of Christmas (1985) — Collaboratore — 27 copie
The World's Greatest Detective Stories: Intriguing Mysteries from the Greatest Writers of Crime Fiction (1978) — Collaboratore — 26 copie
To the Queen's Taste: The First Supplement to 101 Years' Entertainment; Consisting of the Best Stories Published in the… (1946) — Collaboratore — 24 copie
Biography for beginners: being a collection of miscellaneous examples for the use of upper forms (1905) — Illustratore, alcune edizioni — 21 copie
Academy Mystery Novellas: Women Sleuths, Police Procedurals, Locked Room Puzzles, Great British Detectives ( BOX Set) (1985) — Collaboratore — 14 copie
The Graphic Canon of Crime & Mystery, Vol. 2: From Salome to Edgar Allan Poe to The Silence of the Lambs (2021) — Collaboratore — 14 copie
Pause to Wonder: Stories of the Marvelous , Mysterious and Strange (1944) — Collaboratore — 12 copie
A Treasury of Great Short Stories — Collaboratore — 7 copie
Sleuths: Twenty-Three Great Detectives of Fiction and Their Best Stories (1931) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
Best Detective Stories, Second Series — Collaboratore — 4 copie
Gli investigatori di Dio — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Selected Stories of Great Authors — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Detektivhistorier fra Sherlock Holmes til Hercule Poirot — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Shadows from a Veiled Creation: Classic Tales of Supernatural Fiction in the Christian Tradition (2006) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Crime and Detection (Second Series) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
An Anthology of English humor : short stories by various authors — Collaboratore — 2 copie
The Detective in Fiction: A Posse of Eight — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Classic Crime Stories: 13 Tales from Edgar Allan Poe to Lawrence Block (2007) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
LibriVox Short Ghost and Horror Collection 035 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Rosemary — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Ellery Queen's 1966 Anthology — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Classic Detective Stories: Includes "The Dying Detective", "Thirteen Lead Soldiers", "The Man in the Passage", "The… (1999) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Duchy Zimowej Nocy 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Chesterton, G.K.
- Nome legale
- Chesterton, Gilbert Keith
- Altri nomi
- Chesterton, Gilbert K.
- Data di nascita
- 1874-05-29
- Data di morte
- 1936-06-14
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Shepherd's Lane, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- England
- Nazione (per mappa)
- England, UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Kensington, London, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
- Causa della morte
- congestive heart failure
- Luogo di residenza
- London, England, UK
- Istruzione
- Slade School of Art
St. Paul's School, London, England, UK - Attività lavorative
- journalist
short-story writer
lay theologian
poet
philosopher
orator (mostra tutto 9)
critic
biographer
Christian apologist - Relazioni
- Chesterton, Cecil (brother)
Jones, Ada Elizabeth (sister-in-law)
Chesterton, A. K. (cousin)
Chesterton, Frances (wife) - Organizzazioni
- The Detection Club
Roman Catholic Church - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Order of St Gregory the Great
Episcopal Church USA observes June 13 as a provisional feast day - Breve biografia
- G K Chesterton has been described as one of the most unjustly neglected writers of our time. Born in 1874 -when Kensington still formed part of Middlesex-, he became a journalist and later began writing books and pamphlets. His work includes novels, literary and social criticism, political papers and spiritual essays in a style characterised by enormous wit, paradox, humility and wonder. He converted to Catholicism in 1922 and he explores the nature of spirituality in many of his books and essays, including the mighty Orthodoxy.Chesterton created the fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and wrote on 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. Biographers have identified him as a successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, Cardinal John Henry Newman, and John Ruskin. On his contributions, T. S. Eliot wrote,
He was importantly and consistently on the side of the angels. Behind the Johnsonian fancy-dress, so reassuring to the British public, he concealed the most serious and revolutionary designs—concealing them by exposure ... Chesterton's social and economic ideas...were fundamentally Christian and Catholic. He did more, I think, than any man of his time—and was able to do more than anyone else, because of his particular background, development and abilities as a public performer—to maintain the existence of the important minority in the modern world. He leaves behind a permanent claim upon our loyalty, to see that the work that he did in his time is continued in ours.
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Ecco, se vi aspettate qualcosa del genere, scappate da Chesterton e da Padre Brown. Subito. Immediatamente. L'unico confronto che ho letto tra fede e non fede in questo romanzo è stato sul tono di ci sono le persone buone che sono cattoliche e le persone cattive che sono atee o pagane. E tra i pagani rientrano anche i cristiani non cattolici.
Io ci ho provato davvero a essere comprensiva, a rispettare la fede di quest'uomo che si è trasmessa nella sua opera, a contestualizzare il romanzo, ma all'ennesima tirata su quanto sia deprecabile lo stile di vita ateo o pagano, su quanto porti a sguazzare nelle più vili abitudini e su quanto alla fine – quasi inevitabilmente! – porti a efferati delitti, mi sono rotta le ovaie.
Un tipo che scriveva questa roba nel 1910 probabilmente oggi starebbe a manifestare in piazza contro i diritti degli altri (diritti che peraltro non lederebbero i suoi). Quindi Il candore di Padre Brown è ancora un classico? Ha ancora qualcosa da dirci? Be', non posso pronunciarmi sulla costruzione del mistero, perché non ho letto abbastanza gialli da poter esprimere un giudizio in tal senso, sebbene la divisione del mondo in Persone Cattoliche e Altre, Bene e Male, non è che favorisca proprio una gran complessità.
Di certo non ha niente da dirci in quanto a rispetto delle altrui fedi e non fedi. Sarebbe molto comodo se ci fosse un criterio così semplice per distinguere i/le killer dalle brave persone. Invece, no. Esistono brave persone credenti così come persone credenti stronze. E che ci crediate o meno, lo stesso vale per i non credenti.… (altro)