Defiant Joy
The Remarkable Life & Impact of G. K. Chesterton

Name: Defiant Joy
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Kevin Belmonte
ISBN: 9781538493939

Author: Kevin Belmonte

Narrator: Robertson Dean

Unabridged: 8 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 11/28/2017

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Religious Nonfiction

Synopsis

You may be aware that G. K. Chesterton authored influential Christian biographies and apologetics. But you may not know the larger-than-life Gilbert Keith Chesterton himself―not yet. Equally versed in poetry, novels, literary criticism, and journalism, he addressed politics, culture, and religion with a towering intellect and a soaring wit.Chesterton engaged his world through the written word. He carried on lively, public discussions with the social commentators of his day, continually challenging them with civility, humility, erudition, and his ever-sharp sense of humor. Today’s reader can find the same treasures, for as Chesterton said, “What a man can believe depends upon his philosophy, not upon the clock or the century.”In Kevin Belmonte’s fresh new biography, you’ll get to know the real G. K. Chesterton and his literary and cultural accomplishments. A giant of his time, Chesterton continues to live large in the imaginations of twenty-first-century readers.

About Kevin Belmonte

Kevin Belmonte holds a BA in English literature and two MAs in church history and American and New England studies. He is the author of several books including William Wilberforce: A Hero for Humanity and winner of the prestigious John Pollock Award for Christian Biography.

About Robertson Dean

Robertson Dean has played leading roles on and off Broadway and at dozens of regional theaters throughout the country. He has a BA from Tufts University and an MFA from Yale. His audiobook narration has garnered ten AudioFile Earphones Awards. He now lives in Los Angeles, where he works in film and television in addition to narrating.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carol Bakker

Around 1995 I entered a bookstore in Chambersburg, PA. This shop had the *complete* collected works of G.K. Chesterton from Ignatius in tan paperbacks. Oh, how I wanted them. I had no money. Shipping 37 (?) books to Oregon? Forget it. I still remember the exquisite torture of walking away. Reading K......more

Goodreads review by Jeff

As a fan of G.K. Chesterton I was happy to review Defiant Joy: The Remarkable Life & Impact of G.K. Chesterton a new biography by Kevin Belmonte. The author notes that this book is not a comprehensive or definitive study, but to introduce a life and legacy. I am all for introducing Chesterton to a w......more

Goodreads review by Paul

The strength and weakness of this book is its reliance on quotes. It's always good to read Chesterton's own words, but even I, sympathetic to Chesterton as I am, found myself rolling my eyes when Belmonte would write something along the lines of "...his comments deserve to be quoted in full." Still,......more

Goodreads review by Jake

Belmonte gets 5/5. My first top down portrait of the life of GKC. One of my favorite elements of the books was the relationship GKC had with many of the people he lampooned in his works. GKC joyfully fought, and he fought with gratitude. There is no evidence of envy and jealousy in his battles. Most......more

Goodreads review by ValeReads

This was more literary biography than biography biography, so it wasn't quite what I wanted, but I know which Chesterton books I want to read next. And I know I may never forgive him for single-handedly rescuing Dickens from the obscurity he was drifting into a few decades after his death. 😆 Reader w......more

Quotes

“A wonderful reminder of the magnificent example Chesterton has set for us.” Chuck Colson, founder of Prison Fellowship