Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936 / 2008-07-14 00:00:00
EBOOK TWELVE TYPES ***
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TWELVE TYPES
BY G.K. CHESTERTON
LONDON
ARTHUR L. HUMPHREYS
1902
NOTE
These papers, with certain alterations and additions, are reprinted with
the kind permission of the Editors of _The Daily News_ and _The Speaker_.
G.K.C.
KENSINGTON.
CONTENTS
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
WILLIAM MORRIS AND HIS SCHOOL
THE OPTIMISM OF BYRON
POPE AND THE ART OF SATIRE
FRANCIS
ROSTAND
CHARLES II
STEVENSON
THOMAS CARLYLE
TOLSTOY AND THE CULT OF SIMPLICITY
SAVONAROLA
THE POSITION OF SIR WALTER SCOTT
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Objection is often raised against realistic biography because it reveals
so much that is important and even sacred about a man's life. The real
objection to it will rather be found in the fact that it reveals about a
man the precise points which are unimportant. It reveals and asserts and
insists on exactly those things in a man's life of which the man himself
is wholly unconscious; his exact class in society, the circumstances of
his ancestry, the place of his present location.
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