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G K Chesterton

(Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

(1874 - 1936)

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 Hill (1904)
The Man Who Was Thursday (1908)
The Ball and the Cross (1910)
Manalive (1912)
The Flying Inn (1914)
The Return of Don Quixote (1927)
Basil Howe (2001)

Omnibus

The Napoleon of Notting Hil / The man who was Thursday / The Flying Inn (1932)
The Ball and the Cross / Manalive / The Flying Inn (2004)

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
Poems (poems) (1915)
Wine, Water and Song (poems) (1915)
The Ballad of St. Barbara (poems) (1922)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1922)
A Collection of Poems (poems) (1925)
Tales Of The Long Bow (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 (1929)
Four Faultless Felons (1930)
Stories, Essays and Poems (poems) (1935)
The Man Who Was Chesterton (1937)
The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond (1937)
The Coloured Lands (1938)
An Anthology (1957)
Essays and Poems (poems) (1958)
Selected Stories (1972)
The Spirit of Christmas (1984)
The Bodley Head G.K. Chesterton (1985)
aka The Essential G.K.Chesterton
A G.K. Chesterton Anthology (1985)
Daylight and Nightmare (1986)
Collected Works (1987)
Collected Nonsense and Light Verse (poems) (1987)
Thirteen Detectives (1987)
Seven Suspects (1990)
Thou Shalt Not Kill (1992) (with Ralph McInerny and John Mortimer)
Short Stories, Fairy Tales, Mystery Stories (1993)
Collected Poetry, part 1 (poems) (1994)
Poems for All Purposes (poems) (1994)
Classic Crime Stories (1995) (with Maurice Le Blanc, Robert Louis Stevenson and Edgar Wallace)
The Poetical Works (poems) (1995)
Great Detective Stories (2003)
G.K. Chesterton's Sherlock Holmes (2003)
Essential Writings (2003)
Classic Detective Stories (2003) (with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sapper)
G. K. Chesterton's Early Poetry (poems) (2004)

Chapbooks

The Trees of Pride (2004)

Plays

Magic (1913)
The Judgement of Dr. Johnson (1928)
The Surprise (1952)

Picture Books

The Shop of Ghosts (1994)

Non fiction

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Anthologies containing stories by G K Chesterton

Short stories

	The Absence of Mr Glass
	The Actor and the Alibi
	The Arrow of Heaven
	The Blast of the Book
	The Blue Cross [short story]
	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 [short story]
	The Secret Garden
	The Secret of Father Brown [short story]
	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
	The Angry Street (1908)
	The Hammer of God (1911)
	The Invisible Man [short story] (1911)
	The Queer Feet (1911)
	The Tower of Babel (1922)
	The Tree of Pride (1922)

Books about G K Chesterton

G K Chesterton: A Criticism (1908) by Cecil Chesterton
Innocence of G.K. Chesterton (1937) by Gerald Bullett
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1943) by Maisie Ward
G.K.Chesterton: A Bibliography (1958) by John Sullivan
Selection from His Non-fictional Prose (1961) by W H Auden
Mind of Chesterton (1970) by Christopher Hollis
G. K. Chesterton : Explorations in Allegory (1979) by Lynette Hunter
Chesterton as Seen by His Contemporaries (1982) by Cyril Clemens
The Art of G.K. Chesterton (1985) by Alzina Stone Dale
G.K. Chesterton: A Biography (1987) by Michael Ffinch
The Riddle of Joy (1989) by Michael H MacDonald
Gilbert (1990) by Michael Coren
The Size of Chesterton's Catholicism (1999) by David W Fagerberg
Chesterton (2001) by Garry Wills
GBS Vs. GKC (2002)
G. K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense (2003) by Dale Ahlquist
The Outline of Sanity (2005) by Alzina Stone Dale
The Third Spring (2005) by Adam Schwartz

G K Chesterton recommends

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

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