G.K. Chesterton: The Essential Collection

by G.K. Chesterton

G.K. Chesterton (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) was an English writer, lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary, art critic, and biographer.

His best-known character is the priest-detective Father Brown, who appeared only in short stories, while The Man Who Was Thursday is arguably his best-known novel.

This essential collection includes the following works by Chesterton:

• The Innocence Of Father Brown (Stories)
• The Wisdom Of Father Brown (Stories)
• The Man Who Was Thursday (Novel)
• The Man Who Knew Too Much (Stories)
• The Napoleon Of Notting Hill (Novel)
• The Flying Inn (Novel)
• Manalive (Novel)
• The Ball And The Cross (Novel)
• The Club Of Queer Trades (Stories)
• The Trees Of Pride (Short Story)
• The Donnington Affair (Short Story)
• Other Short Stories (Stories)

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Genres: Classics

1690 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 17, 2014

About the author

Gilbert 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.