The Quotable Chesterton

<p></p><p>G. K. Chesterton was a literary giant of his age. With anexceptional intellect he wrote about history politics economics philosophy social and literary criticism and theology. He published essays novels biographies short stories and poetry and the Christian classics <i>Heretics</i> <i>Orthodoxy</i> and <i>The Everlasting Man</i> which C. S. Lewiscredits as instrumental in his conversion to Christianity.</p><p>With much of his finest material out of print or hard to find modern readers have long needed a standard collection of his best thoughts. KevinBelmonte's <i>The Quotable Chesterton</i> bringsthem to you arranged alphabetically by topic with complete original sourcedocumentation.</p><p>There are entries from Adventure to Cheese Politics to��mile Zola interspersed with essays about Chesterton's life and times.Hundreds of passages drawn from Chesterton's fiction poetry essays and otherbooks showcase a man the <i>New York Times</i>hailed as a brilliant English essayist and George Bernard Shaw called acolossal genius.</p><p><b>Endorsements: </b></p><p>There isn't a writer who gets me pacing and smiling andthinking like G.K. Chesterton. His every paradigm shift is an adjustment to my mentalcompass and so a gift. --DONALD MILLER author of the <i>New York Times</i> bestsellers <i>AMillion Miles in a Thousand Years</i> and <i>BlueLike Jazz</i></p><p>Over the years I have delivered thousands of lectures speeches talks and sermons; I have written hundreds of articles essays books and reviews; it is an exceedingly rare occasion when any of them shouldfail to contain the words 'Chesterton once said.' Kevin Belmonte here revealsthat fountain of wit wisdom and wonder G.K. Chesterton in all hisirresistibly irrepressibly quotable splendor.--GEORGE GRANT Pastor ParishPresbyterian Church and Chancellor New College Franklin</p><p></p>