Gilbert Keith Chesterton - Softcover

Braybrooke, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1544624077 ISBN 13: 9781544624075

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

Certain clergymen have also taken exception to Chesterton's writings on the ground of this supposed levity. It is merely that he sees that the Bible has humour, because it has said that 'God laughed and winked.' I do not think he intends to offend, but for many people any idea of humour in the Bible is repugnant, and this view is not confined to clergymen. In an absolutely charming chapter Chesterton writes of the literature of the servant girl, which is really the literature of Park Lane. It is the literature of Park Lane, for the very obvious reason that it is probably never read there; but the literature is about Park Lane, and is read by those who may live as near it as Balham or Surbiton. What he contends, and rightly, is that the general reader likes to hear about an environment outside his own.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1544624077
• ISBN 13: 9781544624075
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 108