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Charles Dickens
by G. K. ChestertonChesterton's books and essays on Charles Dickens are among his best. Growing up in London Chesterton found Dickens his best guide to his own background and much of his philosophy came from Dickens's own "social gospel." To understand Chesterton you need to read his biography on Dickens. It will help you understand why he called himself a "disreputa..
Eugenics and Other EvilsEugenics and Other Evils
by G. K. ChestertonThe wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. It is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exist..
Alarms and Discursions
by G. K. ChestertonIn this collection, Chesterton the master essayist – and master discursionist – moves easily from the mirthful to the magnificent, observing that poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese, that Futurists don’t know a damn thing, and that England is the only place you can find Weather. He has us watch a neighbor’s house being buil..
George Bernard Shaw
by G. K. ChestertonA typical biography by Chesterton about his personal friend and philosophical opponent Georges Bernard Shaw, whom he studies as a critic and a dramatist. Unfortunately this book was written in 1909, when Shaw still had not written two of his most important plays: Pygmalion and The Apple Cart. Chesterton understood Shaw as a sort of secular Pur..
A Utopia of Usurers
by G. K. ChestertonUtopia of Usurers is Chesterton at his energetic and boisterous best, taking on the economic and cultural apostles of modern industrial capitalism. Utopia is a collection of articles written from 1913–1915 for the Daily Herald, a Socialist paper which allowed Chesterton to attack Socialism as vehemently as they assumed he would attack capitalism. W..
A Miscellany of Men
by G. K. ChestertonA Miscellany of Men is a collection of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. It discusses everyday and contemporary topics of 20th century Europe.Covering topics ranging from literature to philosophy, history to social criticism, this is a snapshot of thought on 20th-century Europe (and the world) by one of Europe's sharpest wits and ablest pens. Wit..
A Chesterton Calendar
by G. K. ChestertonIt will be found that almost all Mr. G. K. Chesterton's books have been utilized in the making of this Calendar. A word of acknowledgment is due to the various publishers for their courtesy in permitting this: to Messrs. Grant Richards, Arthur L. Humphreys, J. W. Arrowsmith, John Lane, J. M. Dent & Co., Macmillan & Co., Duckworth & Co.,..
Greybeards at Play
by G. K. ChestertonGreybeards at Play is a collection of humorous poems written by G. K. Chesterton, who was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the "prince of paradox". ..