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Article: Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G. K. Chesterton
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- The Catholic Historical Review
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- January 1, 1998
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CopyrightCopyright Catholic University of America Press Jan 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G. K Chesterton. By Joseph Pearce. (San Francisco: Ignatius Press. 1996. Pp. xiv, 522. $29.95.)
Joseph Pearce's biography of G. K. Chesterton is a venture of love and high praise. Although it purports to stand out from other books on Chesterton by having drawn on many previously unpublished sources, there is far less new here to satisfy the claim. Apart from some scattered letters, notes, diary entries, and poems from the Chesterton Study Center, Pearce relies mostly on previous biographies, notably the pioneering works of Maise Ward and, of more recent vintage, books by Michael Coren and Michael Ffinch, the latter of whom was given unlimited access to ...