The G.K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]

by G.K. Chesterton

THE G.K. CHESTERTON COLLECTION [50 BOOKS]
G. K. CHESTERTON

- 50 Books in One: 22 Non-Fiction, 11 Fiction, 8 Biographies, 4 Poetry, 1 Play, 3 Critiques, 1 Introduction
- Over 2.3 Million Words in one E-Book
- Includes an Introduction to Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- Includes an Active Index to all books and 50 Table of Contents for each book
- Includes Illustrations by Claude Monet

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English writer. He wrote on philosophy, ontology, poetry, plays, journalism, public lectures and debates, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox". Whenever possible, Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, and allegories-first carefully turning them inside out.

Chesterton is well known for his reasoned apologetics and even some of those who disagree with him have recognized the universal appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. Chesterton, as a political thinker, cast aspersions on both progressivism and conservatism, saying, "The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected." Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an "orthodox" Christian, and came to identify such a position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting to Roman Catholicism from High Church Anglicanism. George Bernard Shaw, Chesterton's "friendly enemy" said of him, "He was a man of colossal genius".

INCLUDED BOOKS:

GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON

-NON-FICTION-

HERETICS
ORTHODOXY
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE WORLD
WHAT I SAW IN AMERICA
THE NEW JERUSALEM
IRISH IMPRESSIONS
A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLAND
EUGENICS AND OTHER EVILS
THE SUPERSTITION OF DIVORCE
THE APPETITE OF TYRANNY
THE CRIMES OF ENGLAND
THE BLATCHFORD CONTROVERSIES
THE VICTORIAN AGE IN LITERATURE
A MISCELLANY OF MEN
ALARMS AND DISCURSIONS
ALL THINGS CONSIDERED
THE DEFENDANT
TREMENDOUS TRIFLES
UTOPIA OF USURERS AND OTHER ESSAYS
THE USES OF DIVERSITY
ESSAYS BY CHESTERTON
A CHESTERTON CALENDAR

-FICTION-

THE INNOCENCE OF FATHER BROWN
THE WISDOM OF FATHER BROWN
THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
THE NAPOLEON OF NOTTING HILL
THE FLYING INN
MANALIVE
THE BALL AND THE CROSS
THE CLUB OF QUEER TRADES
THE TREES OF PRIDE
OTHER STORIES

-BIOGRAPHY-

VARIED TYPES
CHARLES DICKENS
APPRECIATIONS AND CRITICISMS OF THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
ROBERT BROWNING
WILLIAM BLAKE
G.F. WATTS
BIOGRAPHIES BY CHESTERTON

-POETRY-

THE BALLAD OF THE WHITE HORSE
THE BALLAD OF SAINT BARBARA
THE WILD KNIGHT AND OTHER POEMS
GREYBEARDS AT PLAY

-PLAYS-

MAGIC

-CRITIQUES-

GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON by Cecil Chesterton
GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON by Patrick Braybrooke
OTHER G. K. CHESTERTON CRITIQUES

PUBLISHER: CATHOLIC WAY PUBLISHING

Genres: Classics, Religion, Faith, Ebooks

Kindle Edition

First published May 31, 2012

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.

Reviews

[Maya Joelle]

I 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

[Judi Politte-Downs · Rating 4 out of 5]

lots of short mysteries - fun to read -sometimes too much detail for me but it helps with the mystery.