G.K. Chesteron was born in 1874. He attended the Slade School of
Art, where he appears to have suffered a nervous breakdown, before
turning his hand to journalism. A prolific writer throughout his
life, his best-known books include The Napoleon of Notting Hill
(1904), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1922) and the Father Brown
stories. Chesterton converted to Roman Catholicism in 1922 and died
in 1938.
Matthew Beaumont is Senior Lecturer in English at University
College London. His most recent book is Utopia Ltd.- Ideologies of
Social Dreaming in England, 1870-1900 (2009).
"A powerful picture of the loneliness and bewilderment which each
of us encounters in his single-handed struggle with the
universe."
--C. S. Lewis
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