St. Francis of Assisi

Name: St. Francis of Assisi
Author: G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton

Chesterton's biography of the Poverello, written, in his own phrase, neither as secular history nor as a collection of pious tales but as the story of a man who was a troubadour of God. Ten chapters follow Francis from the merchant's house to the Testament, set against the medieval world he found and changed.

Source: Ten chapters; Gutenberg front matter, contents, the publisher's list and general preface dropped, line wraps joined, underscored italics converted, double hyphens set as em dashes. Raw text in sources/en-US-originals/.