Autobiography (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- First Published: 1936
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- Setting: Great Britain
- Principal Characters: G. K. Chesterton, Father John O’Connor
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Current events, Memory, Authors or writers, Literature, Manners or customs, Social life, Writing, Novelists, Catholics or Catholic Church, Priests
Form and Content
Autobiography is considerably more than the simple chronology of a life. Never in his writings was Gilbert Keith Chesterton primarily concerned with mere fact and date, and so little does his Autobiography touch upon such matters that the reader new to Chesterton and his era will find much of the book confusing unless he or she first consults a secondary source, such as Dudley Barker’s G. K. Chesterton: A Biography (1973), Lawrence J. Clipper’s G. K. Chesterton (1974), or the lengthy biographical essay with which A. L. Maycock...
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