{"product_id":"the-quotable-chesterton-the-wit-and-wisdom-of-g-k-chesterton","title":"The Quotable Chesterton: The Wit and Wisdom of G.K. Chesterton","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eG. K. Chesterton was a literary giant of his age. With an\nexceptional intellect, he wrote about history, politics, economics, philosophy,\nsocial and literary criticism, and theology. He published essays, novels, biographies,\nshort 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. Lewis\ncredits as instrumental in his conversion to Christianity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith much of his finest material out of print or hard to find,\nmodern readers have long needed a standard collection of his best thoughts. Kevin\nBelmonte’s \u003ci\u003eThe Quotable Chesterton\u003c\/i\u003e brings\nthem to you arranged alphabetically by topic, with complete original source\ndocumentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere are entries from Adventure to Cheese, Politics to\nÉmile Zola, interspersed with essays about Chesterton’s life and times.\nHundreds of passages drawn from Chesterton’s fiction, poetry, essays, and other\nbooks showcase a man the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\nhailed as a “brilliant English essayist” and George Bernard Shaw called a\n“colossal genius.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEndorsements:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“There isn’t a writer who gets me pacing and smiling and\nthinking like G.K. Chesterton. His every paradigm shift is an adjustment to my mental\ncompass, and so a gift.” —DONALD MILLER, author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestsellers \u003ci\u003eA\nMillion Miles in a Thousand Years\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBlue\nLike Jazz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Over the years, I have delivered thousands of lectures,\nspeeches, talks, and sermons; I have written hundreds of articles, essays,\nbooks, and reviews; it is an exceedingly rare occasion when any of them should\nfail to contain the words ‘Chesterton once said.’ Kevin Belmonte here reveals\nthat fountain of wit, wisdom, and wonder, G.K. Chesterton, in all his\nirresistibly, irrepressibly, quotable splendor.”—GEORGE GRANT, Pastor, Parish\nPresbyterian Church, and Chancellor, New College Franklin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kevin Belmonte","offers":[{"title":"Softcover","offer_id":51669642740018,"sku":"9781595552051","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0988\/7934\/0850\/files\/9781595552051.jpg?v=1787958392","url":"https:\/\/53rdstreetbooks.com\/products\/the-quotable-chesterton-the-wit-and-wisdom-of-g-k-chesterton","provider":"53rd Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}