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The Well and the Shallows

G. K. Chesterton

A late collection of Chesterton's essays, written as a Catholic of some years' standing. It opens with 'An Apology for Buffoons' and the seven-part 'My Six Conversions', then turns to the return to religion, hermits and asceticism, the Church and the modern mind, distributism and the family, St. Thomas More, and the quarrel with Protestant and sceptical opinion.

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