Wisdom & Innocence A Life of G.K. Chesterton

"Some people may think Joseph Pearce's new book is hagiography rather than biography. In fact, hagiography may turn out to be the most appropriate way of celebrating the life and work of G.K. Chesterton. As Pearce's first sentence reminds us, there is a well-backed campaign to have him canonized. Saint Gilbert Chesterton would be patron saint not of England, but of Englishry, his symbols a tankard of ale and a rib of beef--grass-fed, of course. Like Saint Augustine, Chesterton was 'a vendor of words'. He was a newspaper man and a legendary Fleet Street character as well as a prolific author of books....In his [Chesterton] best work, he seems to be looking at the world as if for the first time, registering a unique and magical sense of its strangeness and beauty. It is for this quality, above all others, that he will continue to be read. Saint or no saint, he...wrote like an angel."Pearce, Joseph is the author of 'Wisdom & Innocence A Life of G.K. Chesterton', published 1997 under ISBN 9780898707007 and ISBN 0898707005.