G. K. Chesterton Books

Books from the Author of The Innocence of Father Brown

G.K. Chesterton, in full Gilbert Keith Chesterton, (born May 29, 1874, London, England—died June 14, 1936, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire), English critic and author of verse, essays, novels, and short stories, known also for his exuberant personality and rotund figure.

Chesterton was educated at St. Paul’s School and later studied art at the Slade School and literature at University College, London. His writings to 1910 were of three kinds. First, his social criticism, largely in his voluminous journalism, was gathered in The Defendant (1901), Twelve Types (1902), and Heretics (1905). In it he expressed strongly pro-Boer views in the South African War. Politically, he began as a Liberal but after a brief radical period became, with his Christian and medievalist friend Hilaire Belloc, a Distributist, favouring the distribution of land. This phase of his thinking is exemplified by What’s Wrong with the World (1910).

The lists below can be found on this app that give some his main works:

A Chesterton Calendar

A Miscellany of Men

A Short History of England

Alarms and Discursions

All Things Considered

Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

Divorce versus Democracy

Eugenics and Other Evils

Fancies Versus Fads

G. F. Watts

George Bernard Shaw

Greybeards at Play Literature and Art for Old Gentlemen

Heretics

Irish Impressions

Leo Tolstoy

London

Lord Kitchener

Magic

Manalive

Orthodoxy

Poems

Robert Browning

St. Francis of Assisi

Tennyson

Thackeray

The Appetite of Tyranny Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian

The Ball and the Cross

The Ballad of St. Barbara, and Other Verses

The Ballad of the White Horse

The Barbarism of Berlin

The Club of Queer Trades

The Crimes of England

The Defendant

The Everlasting Man

The Flying Inn

The Innocence of Father Brown

The Man Who Knew Too Much

The Man Who Was Thursday A Nightmare

The Napoleon of Notting Hill

The New Jerusalem

The Trees of Pride

The Uses of Diversity A book of essays

The Victorian Age in Literature

The Wild Knight and Other Poems

The Wisdom of Father Brown

Tremendous Trifles

Twelve Types

Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays

Varied Types

What I Saw in America

What's Wrong with the World

Wine, Water, and Song

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