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The work of G. K. Chesterton has attracted as diverse a group of admirers as possible. He has been praised by Graham Greene, Henry Miller, Jorge Luis Borges, and W. H. Auden, and during his lifetime he was a friend of George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells - a friend whose frequent and very public disagreements with them were the delight of England and the United States. His fiction and essays are appreciated for their wit and wild humor, as well as for the flashes of penetrating theological and philosophical insight which are Chesterton's hallmark.

Here is the best introduction to the man and his thought. Basic Chesterton contains this powerful writer's most powerful and illuminating work. Orthodoxy is a strong defense of the Christian vision. The Everlasting Man is a meditation on the life of Christ and its meaning which has moved readers for decades; C. S. Lewis regarded it as instrumental in his own conversion. St. Francis of Assisi is an extraordinary and refreshing portrait of the saint who has been called "the Christian who was most like Christ." And Chesterton the novelist has never been seen in better form than in the allegorical and glorious tale told in The Man Who Was Thursday.

It is easy for anyone who has read him to understand why Chesterton has attracted such an enthusiastic following. Few writers have combined delight, humor, and penetrating insight in the manner of Chesterton. We can say confidently that this volume offers Chesterton at his best, which is very good indeed.

Taken from the back cover.