Heretics,9780486449142

Heretics

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ISBN13: 9780486449142
ISBN10: 0486449149
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-06-23
Publisher(s): Dover Publications
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Summary

This 1905 collection of articles focuses on the era's "heretics": those who pride themselves in their superiority to conservative views. G. K. Chesterton's companion book to Orthodoxy assesses avant-garde artists and writers (including Kipling, Shaw, Wells, and Whistler) with the author's characteristic wisdom and good humor.

Author Biography

Widely known as the "Prince of Paradox," G. K. Chesterton was one of the most influential English writers and thinkers of the 20th century. Chesterton's prodigious talents embraced a wide range of subjects, from philosophy and religion to detective fiction and fantasy. And while his writings are light and whimsical, they are filled with direct and honest truths.

Table of Contents

Introductory Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy
1(8)
On the Negative Spirit
9(7)
On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Making the World Small
16(9)
Mr. Bernard Shaw
25(8)
Mr. H. G. Wells and the Giants
33(13)
Christmas and the Aesthetes
46(6)
Omar and the Sacred Vine
52(6)
The Mildness of the Yellow Press
58(9)
The Moods of Mr. George Moore
67(4)
On Sandals and Simplicity
71(4)
Science and the Savages
75(6)
Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson
81(10)
Celts and Celtophiles
91(4)
On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family
95(10)
On Smart Novelists and the Smart Set
105(11)
On Mr. McCabe and a Divine Frivolity
116(10)
On the Wit of Whistler
126(7)
The Fallacy of the Young Nation
133(11)
Slum Novelists and the Slums
144(10)
Concluding Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy
154

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