Short critical portraits first written for The Daily News and The Speaker. Chesterton finds optimism in Byron, art in Pope’s satire, the cult of simplicity in Tolstoy, and fresh things to say about Charlotte Brontë, William Morris, St Francis, Charles II, Stevenson, Carlyle, Savonarola, Sir Walter Scott and Bret Harte.
Literary journalism that sparkles, and a quick route into Chesterton’s views on the writers he loved and argued with. Download the free EPUB.