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Twelve Types
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Title: Twelve Types
Author: G.K. Chesterton
Release Date: June 2, 2004 [EBook #12491]
Language: English
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TWELVE TYPES
BY G.K. CHESTERTON
LONDON ARTHUR L. HUMPHREYS 1902
NOTE
These papers, with certain alterations and additions, are reprinted with the kind permission of the Editors of The Daily News and The Speaker.
G.K.C. KENSINGTON.
CONTENTS
CHARLOTTE BRONTË WILLIAM MORRIS AND HIS SCHOOL THE OPTIMISM OF BYRON POPE AND THE ART OF SATIRE FRANCIS ROSTAND CHARLES II STEVENSON THOMAS CARLYLE TOLSTOY AND THE CULT OF SIMPLICITY SAVONAROLA THE POSITION OF SIR WALTER SCOTT
CHARLOTTE BRONTË
Objection is often raised against realistic biography because it reveals so much that is important and even sacred about a man's life. The real objection to it will rather be found in the fact that it reveals about a man the precise points which are unimportant. It reveals and asserts and insists on exactly those things in a man's life of which the man himself is wholly unconscious; his exact class in society, the circumstances of his ancestry, the place of his present