The Everyman Chesterton
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A generous portrait of one of the most restless and original minds in English letters, The Everyman Chesterton brings together the many voices of G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936): novelist, essayist, poet, biographer, critic and Christian apologist. First published in 2011, this substantial collection, edited and introduced by Ian Ker, ranges from the philosophical arguments of Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man to the mysteries of Father Brown, lively literary portraits, political reflections and comic verse.
What emerges is a writer whose wit is inseparable from his wonder, and whose paradoxes are less clever tricks than invitations to see familiar things anew. Chesterton moves with characteristic verve between faith and scepticism, the ordinary and the extraordinary, the pleasures of storytelling and the serious business of ideas. For readers who know him through a single book, this volume offers a richer sense of his range; for those already devoted to his work, it is an inviting library in miniature, alive with the exuberance, generosity and intellectual mischief of a singular literary spirit.
From the book
“There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there. The other is to walk round the whole world till we come back to the same place ...”
— G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
On Chesterton
"The world is not thankful enough for Chesterton."
— George Bernard Shaw
On The Everyman Chesterton
“The first one-volume reader of the best of G. K. Chesterton’s writing in the full range of genres he mastered.”
— Everyman’s Library