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G. K. Chesterton was born in London in 1874. He went to St Paul's School and then on to the Slade School of Art. In 1900, he was asked to write a few magazine articles on art criticism, and from that beginning went on to become not only one of the most prolific writers of all time but, in the opinion of some, the best writer of the twentieth century. Chesterton, an absent-minded, overgrown elf of a man, standing 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighing around 21 stone, was a well-known figure invariably to be seen in voluminous cape and crumpled hat, with tiny glasses pinched to the end of his nose and swordstick in hand. Despite a chaotic life-style this was the genius who wrote The Everlasting Man, a book which led a young atheist named C. S. Lewis to become a Christian; The Napoleon of Notting Hill, a novel which inspired Michael Collins to lead a movement for Irish Independence; an essay in the Illustrated London News that inspired Mahatma Gandhi to lead a movement to end British colonial rule in India. He wrote countless books, poems, plays, novels and short stories - most famously those about his creation, the priest-detective Father Brown. In 1909 Chesterton moved with his wife to Beaconsfield, at that time a village near to London, and in 1922 he converted to Catholicism. He died on 14 June 1936, at his home and is buried in the Beaconsfield Catholic Cemetery.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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First bought these stories individually and then lost them. Thankfully this collection includes these classics and the father brown stories too. The Napoleon Of Notting Hill, The Club of Queer Trades, The Man Who Was Thursday.
The club of queer trades is a story related by a man to his friend about the strange careers of some people, how it looks odd to begin with but then is explained.
The man who was Thursday is a spy kind of story following a man who is chasing an anarchistic organisation throughout london and the escapades that follow.
Well worth buying this collection at this price.
The club of queer trades is a story related by a man to his friend about the strange careers of some people, how it looks odd to begin with but then is explained.
The man who was Thursday is a spy kind of story following a man who is chasing an anarchistic organisation throughout london and the escapades that follow.
Well worth buying this collection at this price.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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Five stars for the price and completeness of this excellent collection of the fiction of Chesterton, containing all the Father Brown stories, together with novels some of which are hard to obtain, The Napoleon Of Notting Hill, The Club of Queer Trades, The Man Who Was Thursday (in my opinion his masterpiece), Manalive, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Poet And The Lunatics, and The Scandal of Father Brown. In terms of Chesterton the writer it omits any of his many essays, literary criticism, poetry, political and religious writing and his flawed but readable autobiography.
25 of 30 people found the following review helpful
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The book contains The Napoleon Of Notting Hill, The Club of Queer Trades, The Man Who Was Thursday, The Innocence Of Father Brown, Manalive, The Wisdom Of Father Brown, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Incredulity Of Father Brown, The Secret Of Father Brown, The Poet And The Lunatics, The Scandal of Father Brown.
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