Chesterton was the master of the short essay and could spin, with wit and grace, an essay a day for many years of his life. Those not familiar with his work will discover here the satirist who made fierce fun of the foibles of his times, the lover of paradox who found in the mysteries of our universe a key to wisdom and happiness and the defender of human rights in a society taken over (like ours) by greed and lack of compassion. No one interested in the relationship between civic politics and literature can afford to ignore this magician of the argumentative piece who makes his readers laugh and reflect at the same time. Many of these essays are made available here for the first time since they were printed almost a century ago................EDITED by ALBERTO MANGUEL

"I believe that Chesterton is one of the foremost writers of our time, not only because of his happy inventiveness, visual imagination, and child-like or God-like cheer so evident in all his writing, but also because of his rhetorical skill and the sheer brilliance of his craft......Chesterton is well-rounded; Chesterton doesn't repeat a formula with the fear of making mistakes; Chesterton feels utterly comfortable, which is why he hardly ever makes use of dialectical methods. He is one of the very few Christians who not only believe in Heaven but is also interested in it, and who provides it with an abundance of conjecture and imagination." - Jorge Luis Borges

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