The Everlasting Man by Gilbert K. Chesterton Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Everlasting Man
Book Review: Great Book. Terrible Edition.
Summary: 1 Stars
This will be brief. Buy the Ignatius edition. For an explanation, see most 1* reviews.Book Review: Great Writing, Horrible Layout
Summary: 2 Stars
This book is excellent. I am a lover of Chesterton. However, if you want to read The Everlasting Man, this is not the edition to buy. The layout is horrible, as can even be seen by looking at the back cover, and the book must be a scan because the missing punctuation and the b's that are supposed to be h's and the other way around are horribly frequent.Book Review: Great book, awful publisher
Summary: 1 Stars
I can't believe that Amazon would carry a book of such incredibly low printing and proofreading quality. I can handle a spelling mistake here and there but this book's editing is atrocious - it was certainly not even given a cursory read by any human before going to press. Punctuation can be found randomly in the middle of sentences, parts of sentences are missing, words are misspelled right and left - so much so that it is very difficult to follow Chesterton's arguments. This edition is not worth the money I paid for it, though I like Chesterton very much. I will be purchasing the book again - by a different publisher. Amazon should no longer carry anything by Wilder Publications.Book Review: Great book, horrid edition
Summary: 3 Stars
Wilder Publications should be run out of town on a rail for producing such an inferior copy of such a superior work. Seven pages in and I've already lost count of the typos.Book Review: Great book, terrible publishing
Summary: 1 Stars
There's no question in my mind that Chesterton was one of the most brilliant thinkers and writers of the 20th century. He's amazingly insightful, searching out the big questions of existence with easy, witty prose.
Unfortunately this particular edition of The Everlasting Man represents the worst commercial publishing I have ever seen. It is printed in tiny, poorly spaced text, with innumerable typos making nonsense of sentences and resulting in a very frustrating reading experience. Pay a little more for a decent edition!