The best introduction to GKC by the world’s leading Chesterton scholar!
Common Sense 101: Lessons from G.K. Chesterton
Dale Ahlquist, the President of the American Chesterton Society, and author of G.K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense, presents a book of wonderful insights on how to “look at the whole world through the eyes of Chesterton”. Since, as he says, “Chesterton wrote about everything”, there is an ocean of his material to benefit from GKC’s insights on a kaleidoscope of many important topics.
Chesterton wrote a hundred books on a variety of themes; thousands of essays for London newspapers, penned epic poetry, delighted in detective fiction, drew illustrations, and made everyone laugh by his keen humor. Everyone who knew Chesterton loved him, even those he debated with. His unique writing style that combines philosophy, spirituality, history, humor, and paradox have made him one of the most widely read authors of modern times.
In Common Sense 101: Lessons from G.K. Chesterton, we learn just how much this most quoted writer of the 20th century has to share with us on topics covering politics, art, education, wonder, marriage, fads, poetry, faith, charity and much more.
G.K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense
G.K. Chesterton was one of the most well-known and beloved writers of his time. Yet he has been strangely neglected today. This book is the perfect introduction to Chesterton. Dale Ahlquist is an able guide who takes the reader through twelve of Chesterton’s most important books as well as the famous Father Brown stories.
One of the problems with approaching Chesterton is that he was so prolific that the reader is simply overwhelmed. But Ahlquist makes the literary giant accessible, highlighting Chesterton’s amazing reach, keen insight, and marvelous wit. Each chapter is liberally spiced with Chesterton’s striking quotations.
An overview of Chesterton’s most important books, liberally spiced with quotations. This is a book version of the first fifteen episodes of The Apostle of Common Sense. An excellent introduction and re-introduction to G.K. Chesterton. This is terrific companion reading to the EWTN series, G.K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense.
