HOUSE OF STRATUS

(P/B) ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Robert Louis Stevevson, the great Scottish writer, was often harshly treated by the critics. Chesterton was a great admirer of his work and his beautiful and piercing sense of the clarity of form. With critical insight and perceptive analysis, Chesterton explores Stevensons life and relates the biographical details to his work in an intelligent and subtle study of the creator of Kidnapped and The Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) AUTOBIOGRAPHY
In Autobiography Chesterton describes his happy childhood, the intellectual doubts and morbidities of his youth and his search for a true vocation. He includes many anecdotes about his literary friends, Henry James, George Bernard Shaw, and H G Wells. But it is his quest for religious conviction and his conversion to Catholicism that is central to his story which he tells with great modesty, gentleness and intelligence. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) HERETICS
Though he was on the whole a fun loving and gregarious man, during adolescence Chesterton was troubled by thoughts of suicide. In Christianity he found answers to many of the dilemmas and paradoxes of life. Throughout Heretics he provides a very personal critique of contemporary religious notions. His consistently engaging but often wayward humour is mixed liberally with daring flights of fancy and some startling turns of thought. A highly original contribution to one of the major debates of the last century - one that continues to exercis...
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