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Word: chesterton (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...detective stories on the side. In 1926 she married Capt. Atherton Fleming, famed war correspondent. Dorothy Sayers likes her trade. Her best-loved recreation is reading other people's murder stories, attending meetings of the Detection Club, a private association of her peers presided over by G. K. Chesterton. She thinks well of her own work but admires the classics more. Her favorite classic: Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bloodless Murder | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

...MAUROIS has chosen for his subjects under the title "Prophets and Poets" those contemporary English writers who "have played an important part in the spiritual moulding of one or two generations of human beings." These essays on the life and thought of Kipling, Wells, Shaw, Chesterton, Conrad, Strachey, Lawrence, Huxley, and Katherine Mansfield were first delivered as lectures to French audiences, and most of them suffer from the exigencies of their original purpose. Again and again an indigestibly large amount of biographical data is crammed into a study, followed by a series of extracts from the work of the writer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 2/6/1936 | See Source »

...anthologizing is barely necessary, however, in either of these collections, for with no hesitation at all it can be stated that they are as complete and as discriminatory chosen as they could possibly be. The prose volume, running from Sir Thomas Malory through Popys and Macaulcy down to Chesterton and Galsworthy and Max Beerbolom, contains careful selections from the masterworks of each of the grant English prose writers which not only give an idea of the artists at their best but often attempt honestly to reflect upon all the various facets of his genius. Any anthology will skimp here...

Author: By A. B. H., | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 10/12/1935 | See Source »

...University of Notre Dame announced that Gilbert Keith Chesterton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 6, 1935 | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

...SMILING CORPSE-Anonymous- Farrar & Rinehart ($2). The murder of a critic at a big literary tea gives Chesterton, Van Dine, Rohmer, Hammett and others a chance to show off. First-rate satirical farce even for those not up on the mannerisms of current bestsellers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Mar. 25, 1935 | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

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