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“COLLECTED WORKS OF G. K. CHESTERTON” CONTAINS
•AN AESTHETIC BOOK COVER
•A BEGINNING CLICK-ABLE TABLE OF CONTENT FOR ALL TITLES
•INNER CLICK-ABLE TABLES OF CONTENT FOR ALL INDIVIDUAL BOOKS WITH MULTIPLE CHAPTERS.
•NICELY FORMATTED CHAPTERS AND TEXT.
AUTHOR’S WORKS INCLUDE
•THE NAPOLEON OF NOTTING HILL
•THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY A NIGHTMARE
•THE BALL AND THE CROSS
•MANALIVE
•THE CLUB OF QUEER TRADES
•THE COMPLETE "FATHER BROWN"
•THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
•THE WILD KNIGHT AND OTHER POEMS
•THE BALLAD OF THE WHITE HORSE
•ROBERT BROWNING
•GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
•APPRECIATIONS AND CRITICISMS OF THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS
•HILAIRE BELLOC THE MAN AND HIS WORK
•AESOP'S FABLES
•ALARMS AND DISCURSIONS
•ALL THINGS CONSIDERED
•THE APPETITE OF TYRANNY
•THE BARBARISM OF BERLIN
•THE CRIMES OF ENGLAND
•THE DEFENDANT
•EUGENICS AND OTHER EVILS
•HERETICS
•A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
•LORD KITCHENER
•MAGIC A FANTASTIC COMEDY
•A MISCELLANY OF MEN
•THE NEW JERUSALEM
•ORTHODOXY
•A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLAND
•THE TREES OF PRIDE
•TREMENDOUS TRIFLES
•TWELVE TYPES
•UTOPIA OF USURERS AND OTHER ESSAYS
•VARIED TYPES
•THE VICTORIAN AGE IN LITERATURE
•WHAT I SAW IN AMERICA
•WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE WORLD
Collected Works of G K Chesterton edition by G K Chesterton Literature Fiction eBooks
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Collected Works of G K Chesterton edition by G K Chesterton Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Take some time for this and probably a good idea to do some biographical reading of GK first. Worthwhile guy and a blood genius. He does this wonderful job of turning things inside out and making us look at the normal and natural as the important track in life. He takes on modernity and makes us look at what matters. Never read anyone quite like him and I have read a lot .....I liked the book of quotations by Chesterton as helpful and useful to get the gist of his approach to thought and life. Give him some time though and not a book to skim, takes some work!
Wow, I've only scratched the surface on this collection and already I am knocked out by what I've found. As always, Delphi has done a masterful job of collecting and presenting an author's work. Here we get to pry into the mind of Chesterton, who was sharper than anyone writing at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. His insight is fascinating, and in this collection you get to browse through many of his essays, shorts stories and novels. (I don't think it is all of his essays, since the man is credited with publishing about five thousand of them!)
If you're Christian, interested in Christianity, or even an intellectually honest atheist, you should not go through your entire life without reading this book. Heretics is a good warm-up, where Chesterton takes on the Rationalists and "Free-Thinkers" of a hundred years ago one chapter at time - some more entertainingly than others.
But Orthodoxy is where the meat really hits the grill in this volume. Why so? Well, it's best to let Chesterton do the talking. Sink your teeth into this
"That a good man may have his back to the wall is no more than we knew already; but that God could have his back to the wall is a boast for all insurgents for ever. Christianity is the only religion on earth that has felt that omnipotence made God incomplete. Christianity alone has felt that God, to be wholly God, must have been a rebel as well as a king. Alone of all creeds, Christianity has added courage to the virtues of the Creator. For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point--and does not break.
[I]n that terrific tale of the Passion there is a distinct emotional suggestion that the author of all things (in some unthinkable way) went not only through agony, but through doubt. It is written, "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God." No; but the Lord thy God may tempt Himself; and it seems as if this was what happened in Gethsemane. In a garden Satan tempted man and in a garden God tempted God. He passed in some superhuman manner through our human horror of pessimism. When the world shook and the sun was wiped out of heaven, it was not at the crucifixion, but at the cry from the cross the cry which confessed that God was forsaken of God. And now let the revolutionists choose a creed from all the creeds and a god from all the gods of the world, carefully weighing all the gods of inevitable recurrence and of unalterable power. They will not find another god who has himself been in revolt. Nay, (the matter grows too difficult for human speech,) but let the atheists themselves choose a god. They will find only one divinity who ever uttered their isolation; only one religion in which God seemed for an instant to be an atheist."
There are stretches of exposition where Chesterton has to set up passages like those above, but they are necessary, and well worth the time to get to something as good as this.
I'm a very big C.S. Lewis fan, and it's obvious that Lewis absorbed Orthodoxy, and put his own special brand of apologetic touch on "Mere Christianity."
If you like having to go back and read a paragraph over because the language and the content were *that* good, you will enjoy this volume.
Chesterton's books were influential in C.S. Lewis's conversion from atheism. I found this out while reading Lewis's correspondence from the 30's through the early 50'sLetters of C. S. Lewis. Chesterton's name has been frequently raised in conversations with intellectual Christians over the years, so I decided I'd familiarize myself with his works. I read a dozen books at a time, lying one down with a bookmark to read another until something draws me back to finish one or put it on the shelf to be finished in an indefinite future. Less than half the books I start get finished. This is a big book, containing several of his works (Heretics, Orthodoxy,and the Blatchford newspaper articles), and I put it down many times finding the way ponderous. However, I kept coming back to pick up at the bookmark because there is a unique, original chain of reasoning here that grew more convincing and attractive as I read on. Chesterton's writing and reasoning styles are heavy going, but I highly recommend this to anyone willing to invest the time. You will understand his influential viewpoint on Christianity if you finish the book, and understand his writing and reasoning style if you only read a third. C.S.Lewis's tribute is a good enough reference to give it a go.
If you are new to public domain collections, Delphi is the best. Their collections are put together meticulously and thoughtfully, and most importantly, they have an active table of contents for easy navigation. This collection is no different. I've checked out the other Chesteron collections and the formatting is weird or they just don't look as good as this collection. As far as the works themselves go, they're great. Chesterton's essays (in the public domain) are here, and they are a pleasure to read. I always consider Delphi Classic versions first before I look anywhere else---I've spent too much money on really poor public domain collections. If you like Chesterton (or are interested), for $1.99 you'll be purchasing a premium collection, and you can rest assured that your money won't be wasted.
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