Who is G. K. Chesterton?

G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936) cannot be expressed in a single sentence. Not in one paragraph at all. To tell the truth, not one book has ever done him justice, even with the wonderful bios that have been published on him. However, rather than waiting to separate the sheep from the goats, let's just say it aloud now. G.K. Chesterton was the best writer of the twentieth century. 

He was the best at saying everything that was said, and he spoke about everything. He was not only a poet, though. He not only had a wonderful message to deliver, but he was also a skilled communicator. He was considered the best writer of the 20th century and the greatest thinker of the century. 

G.K. Chesterton was schooled at St. Paul's, his London-born school, although he never attended college. He attended an art school. He was requested to write a few art criticism pieces for a journal in 1900, and from then on he became one of the most prolific writers in history. In addition to penning one hundred volumes, he also contributed to two hundred more, hundreds of poems (including the epic Ballad of the White Horse), five dramas, five novels, and about two hundred short stories, some of which were part of the well-known Father Brown series. 

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Now lets talk about his work, one of his popular work is "The Man Who Was Thursday (1908)" The Man Who Was Thursday is a commendable substitute. The book is a wild extravaganza of genres, including detective fiction, comedy, dystopia, fairy tale, and gothic romance. Above all, it is brilliantly amusing, while it may also be seen as a philosophical dissertation or a passionate statement of religious conviction. 

The story starts off normally enough---at a garden party in the suburbs---but Gabriel Syme is quickly carried away by an argument on an incredible adventure through London and beyond. We follow poet-turned-detective Syme as he battles to foil a terrorist plot while infiltrating the Central Anarchist Council. Chesterton has a way of yanking the rug out from under us; the ordinary always becomes spectacular, and the bizarre always becomes reasonable. Syme begins to feel that "the cosmos had turned exactly upside down, that all trees were growing downwards and that all stars were under his feet". 

The disarray of dreams is what the book increasingly celebrates. Chesterton's greatest accomplishment is giving the mundane world a sense of amazement; everything takes on an exotic and wondrous quality. Specifically, his depiction of London is a captivating picture of the contemporary metropolis; the city is portrayed as a hallucinogenic wonderland, as an ocean and a mountain range, as the depths of hell and the uncharted surface of a distant planet.