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.

Biographical note

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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 [ read | download ]

The following works are available from Project Gutenberg:

• Tremendous Trifles [ read | download ]
• The Ball and The Cross [ read | download ]
• Utopia of Usurers, et al [ read | download ]
• A Miscellany of Men [ read | download ]
• The Trees of Pride [ read | download ]
• The Man Who Knew Too Much [ read | download ]
• The Ballad of the White Horse [ read | download ]
• Manalive [ read | download ]
• What's Wrong With The World [ read | download ]
• The Club of Queer Trades [ read | download ]
• The Man Who Was Thursday [ read | download ]
• The Trees of Pride [ read | download ]
• The Man Who Knew Too Much [ read | download ]
• Heretics [ read | download ]
• Orthodoxy [ read | download ]
• Four Faultless Felons [ read | download ]
• St. Thomas Aquinas [ read | download ]
• Tales of the Long Bow [ read | download ]
• The Everlasting Man [ read | download ]

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