Shelf life.(The Wine of Certitude: A Literary Biography of Ronald Knox)(Book review)

National Review | April 6, 2009| | Copyright

ONE of Chesterton's most frequently quoted jokes was his answer to the question, Which book would you most want to have on a desert island? He said, "Thomas's Guide to Practical Shipbuilding"--and there was much of his personality in the remark: wit, of course, but also a rather obtrusively self-complimentary insistence on his own commonsensical attitude toward life.

Msgr. Ronald Knox (1888-1957)--the great man of letters and Catholic convert who became one of the leading apologists of the 20th century--was influenced by Chesterton in many ways, and his approach to ...

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