G K Chesterton was born in London in 1874 He went to St Paul's School and then on to the Slade School of Art In 1900, he was asked to write a few magazine articles on art criticism, and from that beginning went on to become not only one of the most prolific writers of all time but, in the opinion of some, the best writer of the twentieth century Chesterton, an озуая absent-minded, overgrown elf of a man, standing 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighing around 21 stone, was a well-known figure invariably to be seen in voluminous cape and crumpled hat, with tiny glasses pinched to the end of his nose and swordstick in hand Despite a chaotic life-style this was the genius who wrote The Everlasting Man, a book which led a young atheist named C S Lewis to become a Christian; The Napoleon of Notting Hill, a novel which inspired Michael Collins to lead a movement for Irish Independence; an essay in the Illustrated London News that inspired Mahatma Gandhi to lead a movement to end British colonial rule in India He wrote countless books, poems, plays, novels and short stories - most famously those about his creation, the priest-detective Father Brown In 1909 Chesterton moved with his wife to Beaconsfield, at that time a village near to London, and in 1922 he converted to Catholicism He died on 14 June 1936, at his home and is buried in the Beaconsfield Catholic Cemetery Формат: 15 см x 23,5 см Что внутри? Содержание 1 | 2 Автор Гилберт Кийт Честертон Gilbert Keith Chesterton Родился 29 мая 1874 года в Лондоне Начинал как поэт и журналист, был одним из тех немногих английских журналистов, кто активно выступал против англо-бурской войны Впоследствии обратился к прозе и блестяще освоил самые разные жанры - от детектива.  Кольцо сАвторский сборник Издательство: Wordsworth Editions Limited, 2008 г Мягкая обложка, 1488 стр ISBN 978-1-84022-081-0 Язык: Английский.