G Chesterton Books
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A Miscellany Of Men
[english | 1912]G Chesterton
Summary: [Salamander: A Miscellany of Poetry was an anthology of poetry published by George Allen and Unwin in 1947 and featuring the work of many of the Cairo poets. It was edited by Keith Bullen and John Cromer. The title alluded to the rebirth of culture from the ashes of World War II. It put itself forward as a microcosm of world literature but the sympathies of the editors were Georgian and ...]
Genres: [mysterydetective | humor | short story collection] Downloads: 323
A Short History Of England
[english | ]G Chesterton
Summary: [A Short History Of England G K Chesterton by G K Chesterton. Chesterton has been called the Prince of Paradox. His works include journalism philosophy poetry biography fantasy and detective stories. Chesterton says he decided to write this work because up till now no one has written a history that shows the populace in a favorable light. Most histories depict the people of a country as ignorant ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 204
Alarms And Discursions
[english | 1910]G Chesterton
Summary: [Alarms And Discursions by G K Chesterton. Chesterton has been called the Prince of Paradox. His works include journalism philosophy poetry biography fantasy and detective stories. This collection of short stories contains thirty-nine stories including The Surrender of a Cockney The Nightmare The Telegraph Poles A Drama of Dolls and The Man and His Newspaper.]
Genres: [short story collection] Downloads: 171
All Things Considered
[english | ]G Chesterton
Summary: [All Things Considered by G K Chesterton. G. K. Chesterton is well known as a novelist essayist storyteller poet philosopher theologian historian artist and critic. He s less well-known as a journalist these days yet all evidence indicates that he viewed his work for the various newspapers as his primary raison-de-etre. All Things Considered brings together about thirty columns that Chesterton ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 45
Appreciations And Criticisms Of The Works Of Charles Dickens
[english | 1911]G Chesterton
Summary: [Appreciations And Criticisms Of The Works Of Charles Dickens by G K Chesterton. In the time of the decline and death of Dickens and even more strongly after it there arose a school of criticism which substantially maintained that a man wrote better when he was ill. It was some such sentiment as this that made Mr. George Gissing that able writer come near to contending that _Little Dorrit_ is ...]
Genres: [criticism | audiobook] Downloads: 316
Charles Dickens
[english | 1906]G Chesterton
Excerpts: [... The Dickens Period.CHAPTER I. THE DICKENS PERIOD. Much of our modern difficulty, in religion and other things, arises merely from this: that ...... last movements in literary criticism has done him any good. He has suffered alike from his enemies, and from the enemies of his enemies. The facts to ...... has disappointed you, do not think of it as a burst bubble, but at least as a ...]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 206
George Bernard Shaw
[english | 1909]G Chesterton
Summary: [George Bernard Shaw: His Plays (1905) is H. L. Menckens interpretation of G. Bernard Shaws plays in which Mencken overwhelmingly embraced the man who was at that time his favourite playwright. According to Mencken: Through Shaw I found my vocation at last. It is no surprise that Mencken was enthusiastic in his praise of Shaw when he wrote His Plays but as time passed this love would wane and he ...]
Genres: [essays | audiobook] Downloads: 74
Greybeards At Play
[english | ]G Chesterton
Summary: [Greybeards at play -- The wild knight and other poems -- The ballad of the white horse.]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 373
Irish Impressions
[english | 1919]G Chesterton
Summary: [Irish Impressions by G K Chesterton. Kindle edition to G.K. Chesterton s classic work.]
Genres: [essays | audiobook] Downloads: 444
Lord Kitchener
[english | 1917]G Chesterton
Summary: [First edition according to Sullivan cited below.]
Genres: [biography | audiobook] Downloads: 390
Magic
[english | 1913]G Chesterton
Summary: [Alan Moores Magic Words is a graphic novel containing some of comic creator Alan Moores songs poems and writings turned into comics or with added art. All the adaptations are made by writer Art Brooks. The art was created by various European artists: Fred Torres Ailantd Sergio Bleda Juan Jose Ryp etc. It was printed by Avatar Press in both hardback and softback in 2002. Reprints the original GN ...]
Genres: [humor | drama] Downloads: 94
Manalive
[english | 1912]G Chesterton
Summary: [Manalive (1912) is a book by G. K. Chesterton detailing a popular theme both in his own philosophy and in Christianity of the holy fool such as in Dostoevskys The Idiot and Cervantes Don Quixote.]
Genres: [fiction and literature | humor | audiobook] Downloads: 32
Tales Of The Long Bow
[english | ]G Chesterton
Summary: [VeryVery good book! If you are a fan of historical fiction this is a gem.]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 317
The Absence Of Mr Glass
[english | 1912]G Chesterton
Summary: [Very good indeed. Well-written amusing in places with a fairly ingenious plot for so short a story.]
Genres: [short story] Downloads: 139
The Angry Street
[english | ]G Chesterton
Excerpts: [... come to the conclusion that it is not. But, unfortunately, I cannot read it through very carefully because, you see, it is not written yet. The ...... I was born. At any rate, let us tell the story now with all the advantages of the atmosphere that has clung to it. You may suppose me, for the ...... of the modern bondage, you could hear their fetters clanking. Each was, in fact, ...]
Genres: [classic] Downloads: 146
The Appetite Of Tyranny
[english | 1915]G Chesterton
Summary: [The Appetite Of Tyranny by G K Chesterton. Unless we are all mad there is at the back of the most bewildering business a story and if we are all mad there is no such thing as madness. If I set a house on fire it is quite true that I may illuminate many other people s weaknesses as well as my own. It may be that the master of the house was burned because he was drunk it may be that the mistress ...]
Genres: [essays | audiobook] Downloads: 287
The Ball And The Cross
[english | 1909]G Chesterton
Summary: [A very entertaining treatment of the battle of ideas within the secular and the sacred played out within two mens stylized duel. I found the beginning and ending of the book a little hard to follow perhaps incongruous at times but the body of the novel is humorous as well as thought provoking. Ive been reading a lot of GKC of late and this ranks with his best works. Highly recommended.]
Genres: [fiction and literature | religion | audiobook] Downloads: 335
The Ballad Of St Barbara
[english | 1922]G Chesterton
Excerpts: [... St. Barbara 1. Elegy in a Country Churchyard 13. The Sword of Surprise 14. A Wedding in War-time 15. The Mystery 18. The Myth of Arthur ...... tale and the sea-blue eyes were burning, Still as the heart of a whirlwind the heart of the world stood still. Barbara the beautiful. Had praise ...... That split the shattered sunlight from a light behind the sun. Then he drew sword and ...]
Genres: [poetry] Downloads: 252
The Ballad Of The White Horse
[english | 1911]G Chesterton
Summary: [The Ballad Of The White Horse by G K Chesterton. One of the last great epic poems this ballad tells the tale of Alfred the Great s unlikely victory - with the assistance of the Virgin Mary - over Gunthrum and the Danes at the Battle of Ethandune. A Catholic allegory relying more upon legends than historical facts this chronicle is often considered Chesterton s greatest literary achievement. ]
Genres: [poetry | audiobook | religion] Downloads: 210