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Subject: # 14227 English Narratives from XVIII Century Group B

Student´s name: Ferrer Ros, Amparo

Title of the paper: Chesterton as a journalist

Author or topic: Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (1874-1936)

Abstract: Two points about the author: Articles written by the author. He wrote for G. K.’s Weekly, the publication he founded in 1925 with his youngest brother, Cecil, and Hilaire Belloc, and it worked out till his death. Chesterton’s writings consistently displayed wit and a sense of humour. He employed paradox, while making serious comments on politics, [1], history, [1] [2], religion, [1] [2] , philosophy [1] [2] [3] , literary criticism, [1] [2], detective stories, [1] [2] [3] and many other topics. He was a columnist for The Daily News, the Illustrated London News, the American Review, The Times, he also wrote articles for the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Articles written about the author [1] [2] : by James V. Schall, [1], Dale Ahlquist, [1], James Sauer , C. S. Lewis and others. They mostly have published in The American Chesterton Society.

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