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"there are many fine things in Kers biography. Surely the best is found in his constant stress on the link between the comic and the serious in Chesterton." - Ralph C Wood, Seven "a brilliant ... towering biography" - Gary Day, Times Higher Educational Supplement "This is a brilliant biography for a brilliant man." - Times Higher Education "magisterial" - Matthew D'Ancona, Sunday Telegraph "a discriminating portrait that does welcome justice to the full richness of [Chesterton's] hitherto undervalued work ... the need for a proper critical biography has long been acknowledged and Ker has supplied it ... for any true understanding of the scope of ...
Chesterton's achievement ... Ker's biography will be indispensable" - Edward Short, Weekly Standard "full of colossal wit, wisdom, and common sense...that is this magnificent book" - Catholic Times "superb...absorbing" - Piers Paul Read, Standpoint "this is a full-length scholarly biography that will be indispensable for decades" - Church Times "rewarding biography" - Tribune "Ian Ker provides an account of the thought of Chesterton that surpasses, in its comprehensiveness, anything that has been previously written about him" - Bernard Manzo, Times Literary Supplement "Heroically researched...an impressive...book...that conveys a
powerful sense of [Chesterton's] personality" - DJ Taylor, The Independent "handles a complex subject with admirable lucidity. Mastering Chesterton's output is a heroic feat in itself" - Peter Washington, Literary Review "reveals valuable new information" - The Times "Ian Ker's magisterial new biography of Chesterton ... will now do for Chesterton what his definitive biography of Newman did for him ... a major literary achievement ... Nobody who has any interest in Chesterton can afford to be without Ian Ker's book" - Catholic Herald "Ian Ker's tremendous biography is an incitement to read Chesterton afresh ... [it] confirms him as a great thinker" - The
Tablet "This masterly biography...has the potential to help establish Chesterton in what Ker regards as his rightful place as a major English author." - Independent on Sunday "[this] biography ... will help make the case that Chesterton is bigger than the keepers of culture have allowed" - National Review "[this] terrific new biography of Chesterton ... gives us a portrait of the man in full" - National Review Online "detailed and compelling" - Chronicle of Higher Education "Chesterton finally gets the big book he deserves ... a monumental study" - National Catholic Register "magnificent" - Irish Catholic "[a]
masterful biography" - America "spirited and ... enjoyable" - The Atlantic "... comprehensive biography ..." - The Lutheran "magisterial ... a splendid book" - Touchstone
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