Graduation Farewell Wordings

By one of those coincidences of life, yesterday I was accompanying my wife at the Faculty of Philology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and we approach the library because she wanted some books for a research project being undertaken. I took the time to see what books might have Chesterton and discovered that they had in their windows with a lot of volumes of the English writer but what I suspect is that he could not find a book that walked behind for some time.

It was The Chesterton ( The Chesterton , whose original edition of 1941, the English translation is from 2006, published by Renaissance, with translations of Miguel Rivera and José Julio Cabanillas prologue), a volume of memoir written by Mrs. Cecil Chesterton, ie, the wife of Cecil Chesterton , Gilbert's younger brother, and whose name was Ada Jones .

Ada Elizabeth Jones (1888-1962) was a young English journalist in the early years of the century, the brothers met Chesterton's famous Fleet Street, the street where they were most British newspapers of the time. With them and with his family, with parents of those two brothers, Edward Chesterton and Marie Louise Grosjean shared many moments of his life. Those memories were brought together in his book on The Chesterton , where he unveiled new details about the nature of the brothers and which tells us little known stories.

In the book's introduction anticipates that we had written very little about the human aspects of the character of Gilbert: "His joy in childish games, the grandeur of his private conversation, his youthful follies." It also reveals the personality of Cecil, her husband, to tell "the causes for which he fought with ardor, the manifestations of his courage and endurance, the irresistible attraction of his personality ..." For these reasons and as a portrait of an entire an era, the end of the Victorian era and the Great War of 1914 and the periods that preceded and followed, this book is a worthwhile read for anyone interested in both English writers and its history .

Ada Jones wrote the book in full development of the Second World War, when both brothers had died (first Cecil, because of the disease in the trenches who died in France in 1918, Ada only had time to go see how her husband expired, later, Gilbert in 1936, shortly before he started the Second World War).

Ada Jones wrote the book under the Blitz and was forced to flee their homes under threat of ruin, leaving there the manuscript. Could return later and in an act of courage, was able to recover the notes were to write the book on Chesterton The . A courage that we owe the possibility of knowing the inner side of the brothers Gilbert and Cecil Chesterton, and anecdotes of his family and journalism in England in the first third of the twentieth century.

I hope this review I slight advance have seemed interesting. Obviously, I have yet to read the entire book, but when I do publish a review as God intended for ofrecérosla here. Be one of my summer reading. I was excited is the news give this little discovery.

I wish you'll have a great summer, may rest, that you read books and compartáis quality time with your families and friends. See you soon. God bless.