William Oddie draws extensively on Chesterton's unpublished letters and notebooks, his journalism, and his early classic writings, to reveal the writer's spiritual development, from his early childhood in the 1870s to his intellectual maturity in the first decade of the twentieth century.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-391) and index.

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