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Article Category: Book review

Revisiting Chesterton

The distinguished British author Piers Paul Read recalls the surprising coincidences between his life and Chesterton’s in a review of Ian Ker’s biography of Chesterton.

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.