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.
Genres: Mystery, Inspirational, Literary Fiction
Series
Father Brown
1. The Innocence Of Father Brown (1911)
2. The Wisdom Of Father Brown (1914)
3. The Incredulity Of Father Brown (1926)
4. The Secret Of Father Brown (1927)
5. The Scandal Of Father Brown (1935)
The Father Brown Stories (1929)
The Father Brown Omnibus (1933)
The Complete Father Brown (1943)
Father Brown: Selected Stories (1955)
The Father Brown Book (1959)
The Second Father Brown Book (1959)
The Dagger and Wings (1984)
The Puffin Father Brown Stories (1987)
The Best of Father Brown (1987)
Father Brown Crime Stories (1990)
Father Brown: Collected Stories (1992)
Favorite Father Brown Stories (1993)
Father Brown--A Selection (1995)
Father Brown of the Church of Rome (1996)
The Blue Cross (1997)
Father Brown: The Essential Tales (1998)
The Invisible Man (1998)
The Early Father Brown (2010)
1. The Innocence Of Father Brown (1911)
2. The Wisdom Of Father Brown (1914)
3. The Incredulity Of Father Brown (1926)
4. The Secret Of Father Brown (1927)
5. The Scandal Of Father Brown (1935)
The Father Brown Stories (1929)
The Father Brown Omnibus (1933)
The Complete Father Brown (1943)
Father Brown: Selected Stories (1955)
The Father Brown Book (1959)
The Second Father Brown Book (1959)
The Dagger and Wings (1984)
The Puffin Father Brown Stories (1987)
The Best of Father Brown (1987)
Father Brown Crime Stories (1990)
Father Brown: Collected Stories (1992)
Favorite Father Brown Stories (1993)
Father Brown--A Selection (1995)
Father Brown of the Church of Rome (1996)
The Blue Cross (1997)
Father Brown: The Essential Tales (1998)
The Invisible Man (1998)
The Early Father Brown (2010)
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)
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 (2005)
The Ball and the Cross / Manalive / The Flying Inn (2005)
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)
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)
Murder On Christmas Eve (2017) (with Margery Allingham, Lawrence Block, Marjorie Bowen, John Dickson Carr, Michael Innes, Val McDermid, Ellis Peters, Ian Rankin and Julian Symons)
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)
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)
Murder On Christmas Eve (2017) (with Margery Allingham, Lawrence Block, Marjorie Bowen, John Dickson Carr, Michael Innes, Val McDermid, Ellis Peters, Ian Rankin and Julian Symons)
Plays
Picture Books
Novellas
The Sign of the Broken Sword
The Eccentric Seclusion of the Old Lady (1905)
The Trees of Pride (1922)
The Eccentric Seclusion of the Old Lady (1905)
The Trees of Pride (1922)
Non fiction
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Anthologies containing stories by G K Chesterton
A Century of Humour (1925)
A Second Round of Tales (1926)
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 1st Series (1928)
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 2nd Series (1931)
A Century of Thrillers 2nd Series (1935)
The Great Book of Humour (1935)
The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries (1936)
Ten Tales of Detection (1967)
Great British Short Stories (1974)
Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction (1983)
Stories of Crime and Detection (1983)
Stories of Crime and Detection 2nd Series (1984)
The Book of Fantasy (1988)
Knights of Madness (1998)
A Second Round of Tales (1926)
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 1st Series (1928)
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 2nd Series (1931)
A Century of Thrillers 2nd Series (1935)
The Great Book of Humour (1935)
The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries (1936)
Ten Tales of Detection (1967)
Great British Short Stories (1974)
Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction (1983)
Stories of Crime and Detection (1983)
Stories of Crime and Detection 2nd Series (1984)
The Book of Fantasy (1988)
Knights of Madness (1998)
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 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 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 (1998) 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
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 (1998) 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
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