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Fascist, anti-Semite and dupe: the dark side of G.K. Chesterton

21 August 2021

9:00 AM

21 August 2021

9:00 AM

The Sins of G.K. Chesterton Richard Ingrams

Quartet, pp.272, 25

The Sins of G.K. Chesterton demands our attention because, as Richard Ingrams notes in his introduction, the literature on this author is (with a few notable exceptions) horribly flawed — littered with misconstruction, omissions of fact and interpretive errors designed to present him as ‘an innocent, uncomplicated man, blessed with almost permanent happiness and having no experience of suffering — hence an ideal candidate for canonisation’.

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