Description: GK's WEEKLY : A SAMPLER edited by G.K. CHESTERTON hardcover Illustrated 1986 From the Preface: It is commonly said that there is nothing so out of date as yesterday's newspaper. This conviction causes most people to use dated periodicals for wrapping garbage or kindling the fireplace. Folks with a conservationist nature might collect newspapers for recycling, feeling solace in the knowledge that their stacks of yesterday's news will become the pages of tomorrow's books. But few people gather old news journals for republication a generation later. My involvement in gathering thirty issues of a half-century-old periodical for reprinting requires an explanation. One impetus springs from my historian's commitment to finding, preserving, and making available to a thoughtful public the records of a bygone era. GK's Weekly is scarce. Few complete sets of this periodical published from March 1925 through December 1936 are still preserved. There is also something fascinating about reading old periodicals. Perusing the classifieds, reading the advertisements, and dipping into front-page news of yesteryear touches the antiquarian nature that lurks inside so many of us. Furthermore, for those who know and love the writings of Gilbert Keith Chesterton, this weekly that bears his initials contains some of his scarcest prose, making the reprinting of this weekly paper a service to people who appreciate the late Englishman's work. Finally, the thirty unabridged and unedited weeklies bound here are reprinted because the Reverend Daniel L. Flaherty, S.J., Director of Loyola University Press in Chicago, enthusiastically shared my vision for promulgating the story of G.K. Chesterton. Father Flaherty agrees with my desire to introduce Chesterton and his writings to those who are unfamiliar with the man and his works, and he joins me in wanting to make some rare Chestertoniana available to the sizable group of avid Chesterton readers. ...
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Location: Farmington, Michigan
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
Author: G. K. Chesterton
Publisher: Loyola University Press
Topic: Literary
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Original
