The ball and the cross by gk chesterton5/20/2023 Part One explores the years of Chesterton's obscurity - his childhood, his adolescence, his years as a young adult. It charts Chesterton's progression from his first story (composed at the age of three) to his masterpiece, Orthodoxy, in which he established the foundations on which the writing of his last three decades would build. The book examines these 'social and economic ideas' but focuses on his 'development', both imaginative and spiritual - from his early childhood in the 1870s to his intellectual maturity in the first decade of the 20th century. Eliot pronounced that Chesterton's 'social and economic ideas were the ideas for his time that were fundamentally Christian and Catholic', elaborating that he attached significance also to his 'development'. The book brings new biographical details to light that expand on existing Chesterton studies. This book provides a biographical study on Chesterton and draws on the wealth of letters and journalistic writings within the newly released 'Chesterton Papers' archive at the British Library. When Orthodoxy was published in 1908, Wilfrid Ward hailed Chesterton as a prophetic figure, whose thought was to be classed with that of Burke, Butler, and Coleridge.
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