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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton. (1874 - 1936). about 80 books : 200 short stories 4000 essays several hundred of poems plays 6 novels. Novels: The Napoleon of Notting Hill The Man Who Was Thursday The Flying Inn The Ball and the Cross The Return of Don Quixote Manalive.

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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  1. GilbertKeithChesterton (1874 - 1936)

  2. about 80 books: 200 short stories4000 essaysseveralhundredofpoemsplays6 novels

  3. Novels:The Napoleon of NottingHillThe Man Who Was Thursday The Flying InnThe Ball and the CrossThe Return of Don QuixoteManalive

  4. writerjournalistliteraryandsocialcritichistorianCatholictheologianandapologistwriterjournalistliteraryandsocialcritichistorianCatholictheologianandapologist

  5. Characteristics of Chesterton’s work:paradoxicality, unexpectedness, incredibility of situations, moral preaching, source of joy,they provoke deep reflexions.

  6. Two principal events ofChesterton’s life:1. He adopted Catholicism 2. He married Frances Blogg

  7. “Reasonisalwaysreasonable” (TheBlueCross) “Menmaykeepasortoflevelofgood, butnomanhaseverbeenabletokeepononelevelofevil. Thatroadgoesdownanddown” (TheFlyingStars)

  8. “A wind sprang high in the west, like a wave of unreasonable happiness, and tore eastward across England, trailing with it the frosty scent of forests and the cold intoxication of the sea” (Manalive)

  9. tenant– жилецboardingestablishment– пансионantic– нелепая выходкаHighCourt– Верховный Судtoelope– сбежать с возлюбленным

  10. Burglary- кража со взломомdesertion- оставление (семьи)madhouse – сумасшедший домinvestigate– расследоватьcharge– обвинение (юрид.)toinvolvе– вовлекать

  11. trial- судеvidence– улика, свидетельское показаниеtowitness– быть свидетелемinnocent- невинныйfire– стрелятьbullet– пуля

  12. tovalue – ценитьspinster – незамужняя, старая дева сourtship– ухаживаниеto acquit- освободить

  13. “A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” – The Everlasting Man

  14. “Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself.” The Common Man 

  15. “The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.” – ILN

  16. “Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.” – Orthodoxy

  17. If you leave a white post alone it will soon be a black post. If you particularly want it to be white you must be always painting it again. Briefly, if you want the old white post you must have a new white post. Orthodoxy

  18. He had not had the smallest intention of starving his chauffeur; he did not realise that there was worse spiritual murder in merely forgetting him. The Flying Inn.

  19. Sources:1. Sermonsandparables by GilbertKeithChesterton (article by N.L. Trauberg)2. Wikipedia

  20. Thank you!

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