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The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton: The Complete Works PergamonMedia
This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - easy-to-read and • Aesop's Fables; a new translationAesop• The Man Who Was A Nightmare• Orthodoxy• The Innocence of Father Brown• Heretics• The Wisdom of Father Brown• What's Wrong with the World• All Things Considered• The Ballad of the White Horse• Tremendous Trifles• Aesop's Fables - Volume Aesop• Orthodoxy• The Man Who Knew Too Much• The Napoleon of Notting Hill• A Short History of England• What I Saw in America• The Ball and the Cross• Manalive• Eugenics and Other Evils• The Victorian Age in Literature• The Defendant• The Club of Queer Trades• A Miscellany of Men• Magic• George Bernard Shaw• Twelve Types• The Innocence of Father Brown• Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens• Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays• Alarms and Discursions• Poems• The Crimes of England• The New Jerusalem• The Barbarism of Berlin• Varied Types• The Trees of Pride• Wine, Water, and Song• Robert Browning• A Chesterton Calendar• The Man Who Knew Too Much• The Man Who was Thursday, A Nightmare• The Wild Knight and Other Poems• Greybeards at Literature and Art for Old Gentlemen• Lord Kitchener• The Appetite of Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian• The Ballad of St. Barbara, and Other Verses• etc.
6513 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 31, 2012
About the author
G.K. Chesterton
3,442 books5,166 followersGilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic.
He was educated at St. Paul’s, and went to art school at University College London. In 1900, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time. He wrote a hundred books, contributions to 200 more, hundreds of poems, including the epic Ballad of the White Horse, five plays, five novels, and some two hundred short stories, including a popular series featuring the priest-detective, Father Brown. In spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist. He wrote over 4000 newspaper essays, including 30 years worth of weekly columns for the Illustrated London News, and 13 years of weekly columns for the Daily News. He also edited his own newspaper, G.K.’s Weekly.
Chesterton was equally at ease with literary and social criticism, history, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology.
He was educated at St. Paul’s, and went to art school at University College London. In 1900, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time. He wrote a hundred books, contributions to 200 more, hundreds of poems, including the epic Ballad of the White Horse, five plays, five novels, and some two hundred short stories, including a popular series featuring the priest-detective, Father Brown. In spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist. He wrote over 4000 newspaper essays, including 30 years worth of weekly columns for the Illustrated London News, and 13 years of weekly columns for the Daily News. He also edited his own newspaper, G.K.’s Weekly.
Chesterton was equally at ease with literary and social criticism, history, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology.
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Shelved as 'read-in-part'
March 21, 2024I kind of want to read all of Chesterton before I die, but I doubt that will happen. Anyway, here's where you can see the little progress I've made. Biographies omitted. Works in bold are those I am prioritizing reading soonest.
☐ Greybeards at Play
🗹 The Wild Knight and Other Poems
☐ The Defendant
☐ Twelve Types
🗹 The Napoleon of Notting Hill
☐ The Club of Queer Trades
🗹 Heretics
🗹 The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
🗹 Orthodoxy
☐ All Things Considered
☐ Tremendous Trifles
🗹 The Ball and the Cross
☐ Alarms and Discursions
☐ What's Wrong With the World
🗹 The Ballad of the White Horse
☐ The Innocence of Father Brown
🗹 Manalive
☐ A Miscellany of Men
☐ Simplicity and Tolstoy
☐ Magic (play)
☐ The Victorian Age in Literature
☐ The Flying Inn (novel)
☐ The Wisdom of Father Brown
☐ Trial of John Jasper, Lay Precentor of Cloisterham Cathedral in the County of Kent, for the Murder of Edwin Drood.
☐ London
☐ The Barbarism of Berlin
☐ Poems (1915)
☐ Wine, Water and Song
☐ The Appetite of Tyranny
☐ The Crimes of England
☐ Divorce vs. Democracy
☐ The Book of Job
☐ A Shilling for My Thoughts
☐ Temperance and The Great Alliance
☐ Utopia of Usurers
☐ Lord Kitchener
☐ A Short History of England
☐ How to Help Annexation
☐ Irish Impressions
☐ The Superstition of Divorce
☐ The Uses of Diversity
☐ The New Jerusalem
☐ The Ballad of St. Barbara and Other Poems
☐ The Man Who Knew Too Much
☐ Eugenics and other Evils
☐ What I Saw in America
☐ Poems (1923)
☐ Fancies Versus Fads
☐ The End of the Roman Road
☐ Tales of the Long Bow
☐ The Superstitions of the Sceptic
☐ The Everlasting Man
☐ The Queen of Seven Swords
☐ The Outline of Sanity
☐ The Incredulity of Father Brown
☐ The Catholic Church and Conversion
☐ The Secret of Father Brown
☐ The Return of Don Quixote
☐ The Judgment of Dr. Johnson
☐ Gloria in Profundis
☐ Culture and the Coming Peril
☐ Social Reform vs. Birth Control
☐ Generally Speaking
☐ The Sword of Wood
☐ The Thing: Why I am a Catholic
☐ The Poet and the Lunatics
☐ Ubi Ecclesia
☐ Christmas Poems
☐ Four Faultless Felons
☐ The Turkey and the Turk
☐ The Grave of Arthur
☐ Come to Think of It
☐ The Resurrection of Rome
☐ All is Grist
☐ New Poems (1932)
☐ Christendom in Dublin
☐ Sidelights of New London and Newer York
☐ The Well and the Shallows
☐ The Way of the Cross
☐ The Scandal of Father Brown (stories)
☐ Stories, Essays And Poems (1935)
☐ Autobiography
☐ As I Was Saying
☐ The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond.
☐ The Coloured Lands
☐ The End of the Armistice
☐ The Common Man
☐ The Hound of Heaven and Other Poems
☐ Daylight and Nightmare
☐ Illustrated London News, 1905–1907
☐ Illustrated London News, 1908–1910.
☐ Collected Nonsense and Light Verse
☐ Illustrated London News, 1911–1913
☐ Illustrated London News, 1914–1916
☐ Illustrated London News, 1917–1919
☐ Illustrated London News, 1920–1922.
☐ Seven Suspects
☐ Brave New Family
☐ Illustrated London News, 1923–1925
☐ Illustrated London News, 1926–1928
☐ Illustrated London News, 1929–1931
☐ The Mask of Midas
☐ On Lying in Bed and Other Essays
☐ Greybeards at Play
🗹 The Wild Knight and Other Poems
☐ The Defendant
☐ Twelve Types
🗹 The Napoleon of Notting Hill
☐ The Club of Queer Trades
🗹 Heretics
🗹 The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
🗹 Orthodoxy
☐ All Things Considered
☐ Tremendous Trifles
🗹 The Ball and the Cross
☐ Alarms and Discursions
☐ What's Wrong With the World
🗹 The Ballad of the White Horse
☐ The Innocence of Father Brown
🗹 Manalive
☐ A Miscellany of Men
☐ Simplicity and Tolstoy
☐ Magic (play)
☐ The Victorian Age in Literature
☐ The Flying Inn (novel)
☐ The Wisdom of Father Brown
☐ Trial of John Jasper, Lay Precentor of Cloisterham Cathedral in the County of Kent, for the Murder of Edwin Drood.
☐ London
☐ The Barbarism of Berlin
☐ Poems (1915)
☐ Wine, Water and Song
☐ The Appetite of Tyranny
☐ The Crimes of England
☐ Divorce vs. Democracy
☐ The Book of Job
☐ A Shilling for My Thoughts
☐ Temperance and The Great Alliance
☐ Utopia of Usurers
☐ Lord Kitchener
☐ A Short History of England
☐ How to Help Annexation
☐ Irish Impressions
☐ The Superstition of Divorce
☐ The Uses of Diversity
☐ The New Jerusalem
☐ The Ballad of St. Barbara and Other Poems
☐ The Man Who Knew Too Much
☐ Eugenics and other Evils
☐ What I Saw in America
☐ Poems (1923)
☐ Fancies Versus Fads
☐ The End of the Roman Road
☐ Tales of the Long Bow
☐ The Superstitions of the Sceptic
☐ The Everlasting Man
☐ The Queen of Seven Swords
☐ The Outline of Sanity
☐ The Incredulity of Father Brown
☐ The Catholic Church and Conversion
☐ The Secret of Father Brown
☐ The Return of Don Quixote
☐ The Judgment of Dr. Johnson
☐ Gloria in Profundis
☐ Culture and the Coming Peril
☐ Social Reform vs. Birth Control
☐ Generally Speaking
☐ The Sword of Wood
☐ The Thing: Why I am a Catholic
☐ The Poet and the Lunatics
☐ Ubi Ecclesia
☐ Christmas Poems
☐ Four Faultless Felons
☐ The Turkey and the Turk
☐ The Grave of Arthur
☐ Come to Think of It
☐ The Resurrection of Rome
☐ All is Grist
☐ New Poems (1932)
☐ Christendom in Dublin
☐ Sidelights of New London and Newer York
☐ The Well and the Shallows
☐ The Way of the Cross
☐ The Scandal of Father Brown (stories)
☐ Stories, Essays And Poems (1935)
☐ Autobiography
☐ As I Was Saying
☐ The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond.
☐ The Coloured Lands
☐ The End of the Armistice
☐ The Common Man
☐ The Hound of Heaven and Other Poems
☐ Daylight and Nightmare
☐ Illustrated London News, 1905–1907
☐ Illustrated London News, 1908–1910.
☐ Collected Nonsense and Light Verse
☐ Illustrated London News, 1911–1913
☐ Illustrated London News, 1914–1916
☐ Illustrated London News, 1917–1919
☐ Illustrated London News, 1920–1922.
☐ Seven Suspects
☐ Brave New Family
☐ Illustrated London News, 1923–1925
☐ Illustrated London News, 1926–1928
☐ Illustrated London News, 1929–1931
☐ The Mask of Midas
☐ On Lying in Bed and Other Essays
May 5, 2021
lots of short mysteries - fun to read -sometimes too much detail for me but it helps with the mystery.
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