What's Wrong with the World

Name: What's Wrong with the World
ISBN: 9780486454276

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

174 pages · about 3 hours
First published 1910
213 editions
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1 About this book

I originally called this book "What is Wrong," and it would have satisfied your sardonic temper to note the number of social misunderstandings that arose from the use of the title. Many a mild lady visitor opened her eyes when I remarked casually, I have been doing 'What is Wrong' all this morning.

And one minister of religion moved quite sharply in his chair when I told him (as he understood it) that I had to run upstairs and do what was wrong, but should be down again in a minute.

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Women
Suffrage
Feminism
Divorce
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3 About Gilbert Keith Chesterton

1874–1936

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English journalist, novelist, essayist, poet, and Christian apologist. Chesterton's wit, paradoxical style, and defence of tradition made him a dominant figure in early 20th-century literature. Chesterton created the fictional priest-detective Father Brown and wrote on apologetics in works such as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man.

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