Classics Considered

by Marian H

Chesterton

  • Reading England 2016 – Recap

    When I joined this challenge a year ago, I had every intention of branching out and reading books from multiple counties.  As it turns out, I stayed in familiar territory and read London for all three books (Level 1). The Mint was a fitting sequel to Seven Pillars of Wisdom.  For some reason I went Continue reading

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  • Orthodoxy

    If it is difficult to review a book that is nonfiction and follows a less-than-linear outline, then it is doubly difficult to review such a book from the Christian apologetics genre.  And, naturally, one must explain a rating of 5 out of 5 stars. G. K. Chesterton‘s Orthodoxy is an account of how he came Continue reading

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  • Eugenics and Other Evils

    By LoKiLeCh [GFDL or CC-BY-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons Of G. K. Chesterton‘s several thousand essays, the one I stumbled across most suddenly on Project Gutenberg was Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State.  I do not go out of my way to read essays, but the topic had been on my Continue reading

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  • The Club of Queer Trades

    If there’s one thing that ticks me off about this book, it’s this: The Club of Queer Trades is a parody of Sherlock Holmes.  From the protagonist, Basil Grant–who scoffs at facts–to his younger brother Rupert–a wannabe private detective patrolling lamp-lit London–G. K. Chesterton takes a not-so-subtle jab at the Sherlock Holmes series and the Continue reading

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