Return to Chesterton Bourke A “disease of the soul

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Return to Chesterton Bourke A “disease of the soulBy Maisie Ward G. K. Chesterton was, in the words of George Bernard Shaw, a man of colossal genius. Fittingly, then, his biography could not be limited to a single work. In 1943, Maisie Ward published what Frances Chesterton called the definitive biography of her husband. Yet its seven hundred plus pages could not comprise the entirety of its subjects life, work, and influencehis genius. Untold quantities of new material arrived for Wards