1: The Early Years
2: Publishing and Engagement
3: Marriage and Fame
4: Controversy
5: Dickens
6: Orthodoxy
7: Shaw and Beaconsfield
8: Father Brown and the Marconi Scandal
9: The Victorian Compromise and Illness
10: War and Travel
11: America and Conversation
12: The Everlasting Man
13: Distributism and Apologetics
14: Rome and America Again
15: The Last Years
Ian Ker has taught both English literature and theology in universities in the United States and Britain, where he currently teaches in the theology faculty. He is the author and editor of more than twenty books on Newman, including John Henry Newman: A Biography (1988), as well as the author of The Catholic Revival in English Literature, 1845-1961 (2003).
Ian Kers magisterial new biographical of Chesterton will now do for
Chesterton what his definitive biography of Newman did for hima
major literary achievement. Nobody who has any interest in
Chesterton can afford to be without Ian Kers book.
*William Oddie, The Catholic Herald*
This masterly biographyhas the potential to help establish
Chesterton in what Ker regards as his rightful place as a major
English author.
*Susan Elkin, The Independent on Sunday*
Ian Kers tremendous biography is an incitement to read Chesterton
afresh[it] confirms him as a great thinker.
*Christopher Howse, The Tablet*
A discriminating portrait that does welcome justice to the full
richness of [Chestertons] hitherto undervalued work the need for a
proper critical biography has long been acknowledged and Ker has
supplied it for any true understanding of the scope of Chestertons
achievement Kers biography will be indispensable.
*Edward Short, The Weekly Standard*
A brilliant towering biography
*Gary Day, The Times Higher Educational Supplement*
Chesterton finally gets the big book he deservesa monumental
study
*Gerald J. Russello, The National Catholic Register*
Heroically researched. An impressive book that conveys a powerful
sense of [Chestertons] personality
*DJ Taylor, The Independent*
magisterial.. a splendid book
*James E. Person Jr., Touchstone*
this full-length scholarly biography will be indispensable for
decades
*Richard Harries, The Church Times*
Professor Ker's spirited and double-barreled attempt at a
rehabilitation of his cherished subject is enjoyable in its own
right, and takes in such matters as Chesterton's dialectical genius
for paradox, the authority of the Father Brown stories in the
detective genre, and the salience of Charles Dickens in the English
canonical one
*Christopher Hitchens, The Atlantic*
[This] terrific new biography.... gives us a portrait of the man in
the full.... Any biography of this size is bound to have some
elements of dry, encyclopedic chronology; but in Ker's book, they
are far more the exception than the rule. On just about every page,
one will find extended quotes from Chesterton, of the kind that
display his personality and overall joie de vivre. The author made
me rediscover my early love of Chesterton and his perspective on
the world, and for that I am deeply grateful
*Michael Potemra, National Review Online*
Superb...absorbing
*Piers Paul Read, Standpoint*
Handles a complex subject with admirable lucidity. Mastering
Chesterton's output is a heroic feat in itself
*Peter Washington, Literary Review*
There are many fine things in Kers biography. Surely the best is
found in his constant stress on the link between the comic and the
serious in Chesterton.
*Ralph C Wood, Seven*
This is a brilliant biography for a brilliant man.
*Times Higher Education*
magisterial
*Matthew D'Ancona, Sunday Telegraph*
this magnificent book
*Catholic Times*
superb...absorbing
*Piers Paul Read, Standpoint*
rewarding biography
*Tribune*
Ian Ker provides an account of the thought of Chesterton that
surpasses, in its comprehensiveness, anything that has been
previously written about him
*Bernard Manzo, Times Literary Supplement*
[A] masterful biography. Ker... has now become the most important
source we have for understanding the master of paradox
[Chesterton]... Ker's biography is essential, a labor of love to be
sure
*America*
Handles a complex subject with admirable lucidity. Mastering
Chesterton's output is a heroic feat in itself
*Peter Washington, Literary Review*
reveals valuable new information
*The Times*
[this] biography ... will help make the case that Chesterton is
bigger than the keepers of culture have allowed
*National Review*
detailed and compelling
*Chronicle of Higher Education*
magnificent
*Irish Catholic*
spirited and ... enjoyable
*The Atlantic*
No-one can fail to extract the literary pleasure from page after
page of absorbing new life this comprehensive survey will hold the
field for many years.
*Lord Longford, Financial Times*
A big man, physically and intellectually, British Catholic author
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) finally gets the big book he
deserves.... a monumental study
*National Catholic Register*
... comprehensive biography ...
*The Lutheran*
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