G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (1874-1936)
Biographical note
English writer.
In 1900, Chesterton was asked to write a few magazine articles on art criticism, which sparked his interest in writing. He went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time. Chesterton's writings displayed a wit and sense of humor that is unusual even today, while often time making extremely serious comments on the world, government, politics, economics, philosophy, theology, or a hundred other topics.
Chesterton wrote 100 books, several hundred poems, 200 short stories, 4000 essays and a few plays. He was a columnist for the Daily News, Illustrated London News and his own paper, G.K's Weekly. He was a literary and social critic, historian, playwright, novelist, Catholic Christian theologian, debater and mystery writer. His most well-known character is the priest-detective Father Brown, although arguably his most well-known novel The Man Who Was Thursday does not concern Father Brown at all.
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Works
- The Complete "Father Brown" stories [ read | download ]
comprising:
The Innocence of Father Brown [1911]
The Wisdom of Father Brown [1914]
The Incredulity of Father Brown [1926]
The Secret of Father Brown [1927]
The Scandal of Father Brown [1935] - The Man who was Thursday [1908] [ read | download ]
- Aesop's Fables; a new translation [read]
- Alarms and Discursions [read]
- All Things Considered [read]
- The Appetite of Tyranny, including Letters to an Old Garibaldian [read]
- Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens [read]
- The Ballad of the White Horse [read]
- The Ball and the Cross [read]
- The Barbarism of Berlin [read]
- The Club of Queer Trades [read]
- Creatures That Once Were Men [read]
- The Crimes of England [read]
- The Defendant [read]
- Eugenics and Other Evils [read]
- George Bernard Shaw [read]
- Greybeards at Play [read]
- Heretics [read]
- Hilaire Belloc
The Man and His Work [read] - A History of the United States [read]
- Lord Kitchener [read]
- Magic
A Fantastic Comedy [read] - Manalive [read]
- The Man Who Knew Too Much [read]
- A Miscellany of Men [read]
- The Napoleon of Notting Hill [read]
- The New Jerusalem [read]
- Orthodoxy [read]
- Orthodoxy [read]
- Robert Browning [read]
- A Short History of England [read]
- The Trees of Pride [read]
- Tremendous Trifles [read]
- Twelve Types [read]
- Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays [read]
- Varied Types [read]
- The Victorian Age in Literature [read]
- What I Saw in America [read]
- What's Wrong with the World [read]
- The Wild Knight and Other Poems [read]
