A Short History of England: Chesterton Top Collection
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INTRODUCTION
II
THE PROVINCE OF BRITAIN
III
THE AGE OF LEGENDS
IV
THE DEFEAT OF THE BARBARIANS
V
ST. EDWARD AND THE NORMAN KINGS
VI
THE AGE OF THE CRUSADES
VII
THE PROBLEM OF THE PLANTAGENETS
VIII
THE MEANING OF MERRY ENGLAND
IX
NATIONALITY AND THE FRENCH WARS
X
THE WAR OF THE USURPERS
XI
THE REBELLION OF THE RICH
XII
SPAIN AND THE SCHISM OF NATIONS
XIII
THE AGE OF THE PURITANS
XIV
THE TRIUMPH OF THE WHIGS
XV
THE WAR WITH THE GREAT REPUBLICS
XVI
ARISTOCRACY AND THE DISCONTENTS
XVII
THE RETURN OF THE BARBARIAN
XVIII
CONCLUSION
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English writer, lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and Christian apologist. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox." Time magazine, in a review of a biography of Chesterton, observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out."
Chesterton is well known for his fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and for his reasoned apologetics. Even some of those who disagree with him have recognized the wide appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. Chesterton, as a political thinker, cast aspersions on both Progressivism and Conservatism, saying, "The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected." Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an "orthodox" Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting to Catholicism from High Church Anglicanism. George Bernard Shaw, Chesterton's "friendly enemy" according to Time, said of him, "He was a man of colossal genius." Biographers have identified him as a successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, Cardinal John Henry Newman, and John Ruskin.
