The Defendant

Name: The Defendant
Author: G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton

Chesterton's first prose collection: sixteen essays defending the things that are despised, from penny dreadfuls, rash vows and skeletons to farce, slang, humility, detective stories and patriotism. The paradoxical method he would perfect in Orthodoxy.

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