Ronald Knox, in his sermon at GKC’s funeral, said “All of this generation has grown up under Chesterton’s influence so completely that we do not even know when we are thinking Chesterton”, yet this prolific – and enormous – novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, philosopher, journalist & broadcaster has rather faded from view.
The Sins of G. K. Chesterton
(author)
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Edition:Hardback978070437480501/09/2021
Categories: 01. Books for the New Year 2021: Biography & Memoir, Biography, Letters & Diaries, Books for the New Year 2021
Tags: Biography: writers, Books about Writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
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