Heretics (Golden Deer Classics) [Included Free Audio Book] (English Edition)

Though he was on the whole a fun loving and gregarious man, during adolescence Chesterton was troubled by thoughts of suicide. In Christianity he found answers to many of the dilemmas and paradoxes of life. Throughout Heretics he provides a very personal critique of contemporary religious notions. His consistently engaging but often wayward humour is mixed liberally with daring flights of fancy and some startling turns of thought. A highly original collection of essays, providing an invaluable contribution to one of the major debates of the last century - one that continues to exercise leading thinkers in the present one.

Chapters
01 Introductory Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy
02 On the Negative Spirit
03 On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Making the World Small
04 Mr. Bernard Shaw
05 Mr. H. G. Wells and the Giants
06 Christmas and the Esthetes
07 Omar and the Sacred Vine
08 The Mildness of the Yellow Press
09 The Moods of Mr. George Moore
10 On Sandals and Simplicity
11 Science and the Savages
12 Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson
13 Celts and Celtophiles
14 On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family
15 On Smart Novelists and the Smart Set
16 On Mr. McCabe and a Divine Frivolity
17 On the Wit of Whistler
18 The Fallacy of the Young Nation
19 Slum Novelists and the Slums
20 Concluding Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy