Word: chestertonian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chesterton chose to keep his own head is the theme of Maisie Ward's intimate biography. Biographer Ward (wife and business partner of Publisher Francis J. Sheed) is, like Chesterton, a Roman Catholic, and writes as one. Her book is fat with Chestertonian facts. It is also intelligent, somewhat adulatory, exhaustive (668 pages...
...DAFFODIL AFFAIR - Michael Innes - Dodd, Mead ($2). For those who like sinister Chestertonian foolery, a completely fantastic and delightful story of the kidnapping of a young English girl with a dual personality, the theft of a learned horse ("Daffodil") and the disappearance of a Bloomsbury mansion. Inspector Appleby of Scotland Yard travels from England .to the jungles of South America for the amazing solution...