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Article Category: Book review

Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy: The Making of GKC, 1874-1908 by William Oddie

Garry Nieuwkamp reviews this biography of Chesterton, published in 2008, which is of special value for the light it sheds on Chesterton’s early life and his intellectual development.