The Truest Fairy Tale. An Anthology of the Religious Writings of G. K. Chesterton. By Kevin L. Morris
How are we to rate Chesterton nowadays? C. S. Lewis famously afforded Chesterton's The Everlasting Man a high position amongst the books that influenced him, and it is sometimes hard to get Lewis out of one's mind while reading this anthology, in terms both of similarities and of differenc...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2007
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Literature and theology
Year: 2007, Volume: 21, Issue: 3, Pages: 332-334 |
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| Summary: | How are we to rate Chesterton nowadays? C. S. Lewis famously afforded Chesterton's The Everlasting Man a high position amongst the books that influenced him, and it is sometimes hard to get Lewis out of one's mind while reading this anthology, in terms both of similarities and of differences. Not that comparison between the two writers is anything unusual—the Chesterton Review devoted a double issue to Lewis in 1991 (Vol. 17/3–4); however, the title of this anthology (is there really a superlative of ‘true’?) echoes Lewis's much-used notion of a ‘myth that actually happened’, and even the format—a selection of aphoristic or longer extracts—resembles similar collections that have been made from Lewis's works. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frm030 |