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The Everlasting Man

by Gilbert K. Chesterton

The book is divided in half, into humans (and human nature, and primarily human history pre-Christ, and also pre-history because that is a paradox and Chesterton loves those, y'know) and Christ (and also His church). And both halves were phenomenal.

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Chesterton wrote around 80 books, several hundred poems, some 200 short stories, 4,000 essays (mostly newspaper columns), and several plays. He was a literary and social critic, historian, playwright,...

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