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200 04$aThe wit and wisdom of G.K. Chesterton  /$fselected and introduced by Bevis Hillier
210  1$aLondon, [England] ;$aNew York, New York :$cContinuum,$d2010.
210  4$dİ2010
215   $a1 online resource (313 p.)
300   $aIncludes index.
311   $a1-4411-7958-5 
327   $aContents; Introduction; Biography; 1 Tasters; 2 Literature; 3 The Press; 4 Art; 5 Architecture; 6 History, including the history of GKC's own times; 7 Historians; 8 Science; 9 England and the English; 10 London; 11 Class; 12 America; 13 Love, Sex, Marriage (and Divorce); 14 Beauty, Dress and Fashion; 15 Education; 16 Transport; 17 Murder and Other Crimes; 18 Detective Stories; 19 Religion; 20 Miscellaneous; Index
330   $aG. K. Chesterton was a consummately witty man. In this new collection, Bevis Hillier draws on his most humorous epigrams and more serious extracts not only from his most popular works, the Father Brown stories, but also his contributions to the Illustrated London News and GK's Weekly, as well as his numerous novels, poems, essays and tracts on a vast array of subjects. These pieces shine a light into the margins of Chesterton's work and give a sense of the distinctive flavour of his mind. Hillier, the acclaimed biographer of John Betjeman, considers what it was that made Chesterton such a comp
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