Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton: The Club of Queer Trades : The Man Who Was Thursday : The Ball and the Cross
Subtitle: The Napoleon of Notting Hill
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Published: June 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 600
ISBN-13: 9780898703658
Subjects: Collections & anthologies of various literary forms; Other prose: from c 1900 -; Religion - Classic Works; Literature: Classics; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism
First sentence: Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born on May 29, 1874, "of respectable but honest parents . . . on Campden Hill, Kensington; and baptized according to the formularies of the Church of England in the little church of St. George opposite the large Waterworks Tower that dominated that ridge".