He also produced poetry and many volumes of political, social and religious essays. He wrote a great variety of books from biographies on Shaw and Dickens to literary criticism. The best known is Orthodoxy, his personal spiritual odyssey. He explored his belief in his many religious essays and books. These were themes which were to run through his other works.Ĭhesterton converted to Catholicism in 1922. In this book Chesterton developed his political attitudes in which he attacked socialism, big business and technology and showed how they become the enemies of freedom and justice. His first novel, The Napoleon of Notting Hill, was published in 1904. He became a journalist and began writing for The Speaker with his friend Hilaire Belloc. Chesterton was born in London in 1874 and was educated at St Paul's School.
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