{"product_id":"9781595552051_the-quotable-chesterton","title":"The Quotable Chesterton","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eG. 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 \u003ci\u003eHeretics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOrthodoxy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Everlasting Man\u003c\/i\u003e, which C. S. Lewiscredits as instrumental in his conversion to Christianity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Quotable Chesterton\u003c\/i\u003e bringsthem to you arranged alphabetically by topic, with complete original sourcedocumentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are entries from Adventure to Cheese, Politics toï¿½mile 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 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003ehailed as a \"brilliant English essayist\" and George Bernard Shaw called a\"colossal genius.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEndorsements: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestsellers \u003ci\u003eAMillion Miles in a Thousand Years\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBlueLike Jazz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kevin Belmonte","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40701350608945,"sku":"9781595552051","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/9926\/3793\/files\/9781595552051.jpg?v=1780470878","url":"https:\/\/bakerbookhouse.com\/products\/9781595552051_the-quotable-chesterton","provider":"Baker Book House ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}