A major new biography offering the first comprehensive intellectual and literary life of Chesterton, drawing on many unpublished letters and papers to evoke his humour, his humility, affinity to the common man and love of the ordinary things of life.
It also examines his religious development and his later role as an apologist for Roman Catholicism..
A major new biography offering the first comprehensive intellectual and literary life of Chesterton, drawing on many unpublished letters and papers to evoke his humour, his humility, affinity to the common man and love of the ordinary things of life