Subject: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 (Keywords)

This full-length life of G.K. Chesterton is the first comprehensive biography of both the man and the writer. It draws on many unpublished letters and papers to evoke Chesterton's joyful humour, his humility and affinity to the common man, and his love of the ordinary things of life.

On the 60th anniversary of Chesterton's death, this readable biography examines his intimate relationships with wife and brother, and Hilaire Belloc, Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells, as well as his prolific work.