Philosophy

Heretics

by G. K. Chesterton

A collection of essays taking aim at the fashionable pessimists and cynics of his day, arguing cheerfully that their sophistication was mostly just despair with better manners. Chesterton preferred paradox to solemnity as a weapon, and wielded it constantly. He is more fun to disagree with than most writers are to agree with.

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Reading time

About 4 hr 20 min

Where to find it

On the Philosophy shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #470. In the public domain in the United States.