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G K Chesterton

(Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
UK  (1874 - 1936)
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About G K Chesterton
G K Chesterton has been described as one of the most unjustly neglected writers of our time. Born in 1874, he became a journalist and later began writing books and pamphlets. His work includes novels, literary and social criticism, political papers and spiritual essays in a style characterised by enormous wit, paradox, humility and wonder. He converted to Catholicism in 1922 and he explores the nature of spirituality in many of his books and essays, including the mighty Orthodoxy. Chesterton is one of the few authors who are genuinely timeless and whose work has as much relevance today as when it was written.
 
Novels
The Napoleon of Notting HillThe Man Who Was ThursdayThe Ball and the CrossManalive
The Flying InnThe Return of Don Quixote
 
Omnibus
The Ball and the Cross / Manalive / The Flying Inn
 
Collections
Greybeards At Play (poems) (1900)
The Wild Knight (poems) (1900)
The Club of Queer Trades (1905)
The Ballad Of The White Horse (poems) (1911)
A Chesterton Calendar (1911)
     aka Chesterton Day By Day
Wine, Water and Song (poems) (1915)
Poems (poems) (1915)
The Ballad of St. Barbara: And Other Verses (poems) (1922)
The Man Who Knew Too Much: And Other Stories (1922)
Tales Of The Long Bow (1925)
A Collection of Poems (poems) (1925)
The Queen of Seven Swords (poems) (1926)
The Collected Poems of G. K. Chesterton (poems) (1927)
Short Stories of To-Day and Yesterday (1928)
The Poet and the Lunatics: Episodes in the Life of Gabriel Gale (1929)
Four Faultless Felons (1930)
Stories, Essays and Poems (poems) (1935)
The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond (1937)
The Man Who Was Chesterton: The Best Essays, Stories, Poems, And Other Writings of G. K. Chesterton (1937)
The Coloured Lands (1938)
An Anthology (1957)
Essays and poems (poems) (1958)
Selected Stories (1972)
The Spirit of Christmas: Stories, Poems And Essays (1984)
The Bodley Head G.K. Chesterton (1985)
     aka The Essential G.K.Chesterton
A G.K. Chesterton Anthology (1985)
Collected Works (1986)
Daylight and Nightmare: Uncollected Stories and Fables (1986)
Collected Nonsense and Light Verse (poems) (1987)
Thirteen Detectives: Classic Mystery Stories By the Creator of Father Brown (1987)
Seven Suspects (1990)
Thou Shalt Not Kill: Father Brown, Father Dowling And Other Ecclesiastical Sleuths (1992) (with Ralph McInerny and John Mortimer)
Short Stories, Fairy Tales, Mystery Stories (1993)
Poems for All Purposes (poems) (1994)
Collected Poetry, part 1 (poems) (1994)
The Poetical Works (poems) (1995)
Classic Crime Stories (1995) (with Maurice Le Blanc, Robert Louis Stevenson and Edgar Wallace)
Classic Detective Stories (2002) (with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sapper)
G.K. Chesterton's Sherlock Holmes (2003)
Essential Writings (2003)
Great Detective Stories (2003)
G. K. Chesterton's Early Poetry: Greybeards At Play / The Wild Knight And Other Poems / The Ballad of the White Horse (poems) (2004)
The Club of Queer TradesThe Ballad Of The White HorseA Chesterton CalendarWine, Water and Song
The Man Who Knew Too Much: And Other StoriesTales Of The Long BowThe Queen of Seven SwordsThe Collected Poems of G. K. Chesterton
Short Stories of To-Day and YesterdayThe Poet and the Lunatics: Episodes in the Life of Gabriel GaleFour Faultless FelonsStories, Essays and Poems
The Paradoxes of Mr. PondThe Coloured LandsThe Bodley Head G.K. ChestertonA G.K. Chesterton Anthology
Collected WorksDaylight and Nightmare: Uncollected Stories and FablesCollected Nonsense and Light VerseThirteen Detectives: Classic Mystery Stories By the Creator of Father Brown
Seven SuspectsThou Shalt Not Kill: Father Brown, Father Dowling And Other Ecclesiastical SleuthsPoems for All PurposesClassic Crime Stories
Classic Detective StoriesG.K. Chesterton's Sherlock HolmesEssential WritingsGreat Detective Stories
G. K. Chesterton's Early Poetry: Greybeards At Play / The Wild Knight And Other Poems / The Ballad of the White Horse
 
Chapbooks
The Trees of Pride
 
Plays
Magic: A Fantastic ComedyThe Judgement of Dr. JohnsonThe Surprise
 
Picture Books
The Shop of Ghosts
 
Non fiction series
Chesterton's Monographies
Robert Louis Stevenson (1902) (with W Robertson Nicoll)
Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881 (1902) (with J E Hodder Williams)
Charles Dickens (1903) (with F G Kitton)
Leo Tolstoy (1903) (with Edward Garnett and G H Perris)
Robert Browning (1903)
Tennyson (1903) (with Richard Garnett)
Thackeray (1903) (with Lewis Melville)
G.F. Watts (1904)
George Bernard Shaw (1909)
William Blake (1910)
St Francis of Assisi (1923)
William Cobbett (1925)
Chaucer (1932)
St Thomas Aquinas (1933)
St. Thomas Aquinas / St. Francis of Assisi (2002)
Robert Louis StevensonThomas Carlyle, 1795-1881Charles DickensRobert Browning
G.F. WattsGeorge Bernard ShawWilliam BlakeSt Francis of Assisi
William CobbettChaucerSt Thomas AquinasSt. Thomas Aquinas / St. Francis of Assisi
 
 
Non fiction
The Defendant (1901)
Twelve Types: A Collection of Mini-biographies (1902)
Varied Types (1903)
Heretics (1905)
All Things Considered (1908)
Orthodoxy: The Romance of Faith (1908)
Tremendous Trifles (1909)
Five Types (1910)
What's Wrong with the World (1910)
Alarms and Discursions (1910)
Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens (1911) (see Charles Dickens)
Wit and Wisdom of G.K.Chesterton (1911)
Simplicity and Tolstoy (1912) (see Leo Tolstoy)
A Miscellany Of Men (1912)
The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)
London (1914)
The Barbarism Of Berlin (1914)
Prussian Versus Belgian Culture (1914)
The Crimes of England (1915)
The Appetite of Tyranny (1915)
Letters to an Old Garibaldian (1915)
The Martyrdom of Belgium: An Appeal : Reprinted By Kind Permission of the Illustrated London News (1915)
A Short History of England (1917)
Utopia Of Usurers and Other Essays (1917)
What Are Reprisals? (1918)
Irish Impressions (1919)
Superstition of Divorce (1920)
The Uses of Diversity (1920)
The New Jerusalem (1920)
What I Saw in America (1922)
Eugenics and Other Evils (1922)
Fancies Versus Fads (1923)
The Universal University: An Address Delivered to the Associated Societies of the University of Edinburgh On 21st November 1924 (1924)
The Everlasting Man (1925)
The Superstitions of the Sceptic (1925)
A Gleaming Cohort: Being Selections from the Writings of G.K. Chesterton (1926)
Twelve Modern Apostles and Their Creeds (1926)
The Outline of Sanity (1927)
Do We Agree?: A Debate Between G. K. Chesterton And Bernard Shaw, with Hilaire Belloc in the Chair (1928) (with Hilaire Belloc and George Bernard Shaw)
     aka Do We Agree?: A Debate
Essays of today and yesterday (1928)
Generally Speaking (1928)
The Catholic Church and Conversion (1928)
The Thing (1929)
G. K. C. as M. C. (1929)
The Resurrection of Rome (1930)
All Is Grist: A Book of Essays (1931)
Is There a Return to Religion?: A Debate (1931)
Sidelights On New London and Newer York: And Other Essays (1932)
Christendom in Dublin (1932)
On Running After One's Hat and Other Whimsies (1933)
All I Survey: A Book of Essays (1933)
Avowals and Denials (1934)
The Well and the Shallows (1935)
Autobiography (1936)
As I Was Saying (1936)
The End of the Armistice (1940)
The Common Man (1950)
Essays (1953)
A Handful of Authors: Essays On Books And Writers (1953)
Selected Essays (1953)
The Glass Walking-stick, and Other Essays: From "the Illustrated London News", 1905-1936 (1955)
Lunacy and Letters (1958)
Where All Roads Lead (1961)
The Man Who Was Orthodox (1963)
The Spice of Life, and Other Essays (1964)
Essays on Shakespeare (1968) (see William Shakespeare)
Chesterton on Shakespeare (1972) (see William Shakespeare)
Apostle and the Wild Ducks and Other Essays (1975)
G.K.C. Saw: A Selection from Fourteen Books By G.K. Chesterton And One About Him (1975)
The Quotable Chesterton: A Topical Compilation of the Wit, Wisdom And Satire of G.K. Chesterton (1986)
More Quotable Chesterton (1988)
On Dickens (1989) (see Charles Dickens)
Brave New Family: Men And Women, Children, Sex, Divorce, Marriage, And the Family (1990)
A Motley Wisdom (1995)
The Wisdom of G.K. Chesterton (1997)
Prophet of Orthodoxy: The Wisdom of G.K.Chesterton (1997)
On Lying in Bed and Other Essays (2000)
Distributist Perspectives: Essays On Economics of Justice And Charity (2004) (with Hilaire Belloc)
The DefendantTwelve Types: A Collection of Mini-biographiesHereticsAll Things Considered
Orthodoxy: The Romance of FaithTremendous TriflesFive TypesWhat's Wrong with the World
Alarms and DiscursionsAppreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles DickensSimplicity and TolstoyA Miscellany Of Men
The Victorian Age in LiteratureThe Crimes of EnglandThe Appetite of TyrannyA Short History of England
Utopia Of Usurers and Other EssaysIrish ImpressionsSuperstition of DivorceThe Uses of Diversity
The New JerusalemWhat I Saw in AmericaEugenics and Other EvilsThe Everlasting Man
The Outline of SanityDo We Agree?: A Debate Between G. K. Chesterton And Bernard Shaw, with Hilaire Belloc in the ChairEssays of today and yesterdayThe Catholic Church and Conversion
The ThingThe Resurrection of RomeChristendom in DublinThe Well and the Shallows
AutobiographyAs I Was SayingA Handful of Authors: Essays On Books And WritersLunacy and Letters
The Man Who Was OrthodoxThe Spice of Life, and Other EssaysOn DickensBrave New Family: Men And Women, Children, Sex, Divorce, Marriage, And the Family
The Wisdom of G.K. ChestertonProphet of Orthodoxy: The Wisdom of G.K.ChestertonOn Lying in Bed and Other EssaysDistributist Perspectives: Essays On Economics of Justice And Charity
 
Anthologies containing stories by G K Chesterton
A Century of HumourThe Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and MysteriesTen Tales of DetectionThe Book of Fantasy
Knights of Madness: Further Comic Tales of Fantasy
 
Short stories
The Angry Street (1908)
The Hammer of God (1911)
The Invisible Man (1911)
The Queer Feet (1911)
The Tower of Babel (1922)
The Tree of Pride (1922)
The Absence of Mr Glass
The Actor and the Alibi
The Arrow of Heaven
The Blast of the Book
The Blue Cross
The Chief Mourner of Marne
The Crime of the Communist
The Curse of the Golden Cross
The Dagger with Wings
The Doom of the Darnaways
The Duel of Dr Hirsch
The Eccentric Seclusion of the Old Lady
The Eye of Apollo
The Fairy Tale of Father Brown
The Five of Swords
The Flying Stars
The Ghost of Gideon Wise
The God of the Gongs
The Green Man
The Head of Caesar
The Honour of Israel Gow
The Insoluble Problem
The Man in the Passage
The Man with Two Beards
The Miracle of Moon Crescent
The Mirror of the Magistrate
The Mistake of the Machine
The Oracle of the Dog
The Paradise of Thieves
The Perishing of the Pendragons
The Point of a Pin
The Purple Wig
The Pursuit of Mr Blue
The Quick One
The Red Moon of Meru
The Resurrection of Father Brown
The Salad of Colonel Cray
The Scandal of Father Brown
The Secret Garden
The Secret of Father Brown
The Secret of Flambeau
The Sign of the Broken Sword
The Sins of Prince Saradine
The Song of the Flying Fish
The Strange Crime of John Boulnois
The Three Tools of Death
The Tower of Treason
The Vampire of the Village
The Vanishing of Vaudrey
The Worst Crime in the World
The Wrong Shape


Books about G K Chesterton
G K Chesterton: A CriticismGilbert Keith ChestertonG.K.Chesterton: A BibliographySelection from His Non-fictional Prose
G.K. Chesterton: A BiographyThe Riddle of JoyWisdom and Innocence: A Life of G. K. ChestertonThe Size of Chesterton's Catholicism
ChestertonChristian MythmakersGBS Vs. GKCG. K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense
The Third Spring: G.K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, Christopher Dawson and David JonesThe Outline of Sanity: A Biography of G. K. Chesterton
 
Links to other websites
American Chesterton Society


G K Chesterton recommends
The First Men in the Moon
The First Men in the Moon (1901)
H G Wells
"Written with astonishing animation and lucidity."



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