G.K. Chesterton

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  • Bibliography:
    116 Books - 1 Series
  • First Book:
    January 1900
  • Latest Book:
    December 2019
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Full Series List in Order

Father Brown

The Innocence of Father Brown (Jan-1911)
The Wisdom of Father Brown (1976)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (Oct-1986)
The Club of Queer Trades (Dec-1987)
The Incredulity of Father Brown (Sep-1988)
Favorite Father Brown Stories (May-1993)
The Blue Cross (Oct-1997)
The Invisible Man (Jan-1998)
Following Father Brown (May-1998)
The Astonishing Father Brown (Sep-1999)
The Complete Father Brown Stories (Aug-2012)

Book List in Order: 116 titles

  • Greybeards at Play

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  • Twelve Types


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  • Varied Types

    Varied Types By G.K. Chesterton Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 29 May 1874 - 14 June 1936, better known as G.K. Chesterton, was an English writer, lay theologian, poet, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and Christian apol...

  • The Napoleon of Notting Hill

    The hero of this story is Auberon Quin, a portly Pickwickian gentleman who can be shockingly embarrassing in public places - standing on his head, telling outrageous stories and bursting into laughter - for no reason at all. Then, one day, he is unex...

  • The Secret Garden

    in Murderous Schemes

    When plotting a murder (figuratively speaking), the mystery writer has at hand any number of M.O.'s including such tried and true conventions as the locked room, the unbreakable alibi, the double bluff, the mistaken identity, and many others. Indeed,...

  • All Things Considered

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  • The Man Who Was Thursday

    Is THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY a gripping adventure story of murderous criminals and brilliant policemen, or something deeper. . . ? We can't discuss the book's denoument here in the cover copy, but this title tempts us. Let us instead say that the b...

  • Orthodoxy

    Chesterton traces the roots of his own Christianity. He was initially a non-believer â€" 'I was a pagan at the age of twelve and a complete agnostic by the age of sixteen'. Chesterton avidly read lots of anti-Christian literature and decided that if ...

  • Tremendous Trifles

    "The world will never starve for want of wonders, but only for want of wonder." -- G. K. ChestertonThe thirty-nine short essays that make up Chesterton's delightful book are the result of "sitting still and letting marvels and adventures settle on h...



  • The Ball and The Cross

    The adventures of two men, one an atheist, the other a Catholic, who want to fight a duel over God and the Virgin Mary. The world thinks them both mad, of course, because they seem to be serious, and the story ends by shutting up in a lunatic asylum ...

  • The Ballad of the White Horse

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  • Alarms and Discursions

    Born in London, Chesterton was educated at St. Paul's, but never went to college. He went to art school. 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....

  • The Innocence of Father Brown

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    Chesterton portrays Father Brown as a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, and an uncanny insight into human evil. ""How in Tartarus,"" cried Flambeau, ""did you ever hear of the spiked bracelet?"" -- ...

  • Irish Impressions

    Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an influential English writer of the early 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy, and detective fiction. Chesterton ha...

  • The Victorian Age in Literature

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  • The Wild Knight and Other Poems

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  • The Barbarism of Berlin

    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...

  • The Crimes of England

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  • The Appetite of Tyranny

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  • The Ballad of St. Barbara and Other Verses

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  • Eugenics and Other Evils

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  • The Trees of Pride

    "We wish you'd get rid of what you've got here, sir," he observed, digging doggedly. "Nothing'll grow right with them here." "Shrubs!" said the Squire, laughing. "You don't call the peacock trees shrubs, do you? Fine tall trees -- you ought to be pro...

  • The Garden of Smoke

    in Garden of Deadly Delights

    A DAZZLING BOUQUET OF MYSTERY AND MURDER Here, amid the lush, heady beauty of a garden setting, everything's coming up roses...or turning up corpses. Focusing on crime that flourishes amid the flora, this blooming collection of 19 tales provides m...

  • The Wisdom of Father Brown

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    ""And the young woman of the house,"" asked Dr. Hood, with huge and silent amusement, ""what does she want?"" ""Why, she wants to marry him,"" cried Father Brown, sitting up eagerly. ""That is just the awful complication."" ""It is indeed a hideo...

  • The Man Who Knew Too Much

    The Man Who Knew Too Much: From behind the overhanging rock came a noise and rush like that of a railway train; and a great motorcar appeared. For the fraction of a flash it seemed to leave the ledge of rock like a flying ship; then the very sky s...

  • The Club of Queer Trades

    Chesterton's brilliant wit here satirizes the popular conception and methods of a master sleuth--such as Sherlock Holmes--giving the reader a series of entertaining and unforgettable stories. "Funmaking of the most fantastic kind".--New York Times....

  • The Scandal of Father Brown

    'It would not be fair to record the adventures of Father Brown, without admitting that he was once involved in a grave scandal...It happened in a picturesque Mexican road-house of rather loose repute...'After many years in the priesthood, Father Brow...

  • Daylight and Nightmare
  • The Incredulity of Father Brown

    The third volume of stories featuring the cunning clerical sleuth Father Brown. Ahead of a new series of the popular BBC adaptation starring Mark Williams, all five of Chesterton's original Father Brown books have been republished with charming and c...



  • Four Faultless Felons

    A series of four intertwined novellas whose central characters appear to be involved in murder, fraud, theft and treason. "Dazzling reading from cover to cover." -- The New York Times....

  • Thirteen Detectives

    Collects Chesterton's mysteries featuring sleuths other than Father Brown, such as "The Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse" with a Mr. Pond, but features as well one previously uncollected Father Brown story, "Father Brown and the Donnington Affair"...

  • The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond

    8 suspenseful tales featuring Chesterton's delightful amateur sleuth, a deceptively "mild little man" who knows thoroughly the ways of the world. "A masterpiece...quintessential Chesterton, with sparkling surface masking frequent emotional depths...a...

  • Secret of Father Brown

    These are just some of the problems for Father Brown to solve. In his inimitable way, this gentle, eccentric little cleric-detective sets about unravelling the threads of a colourful skein of mysteries. In the course of the investigations Father Brow...

  • The Illustrated London News, 1926-1928
  • Favorite Father Brown Stories

    Critic, author, and debunker extraordinaire, G. K. Chesterton (1874â€"1936) delighted in probing the ambiguities of Christian theology. A number of his most successful attempts at combining first-rate fiction with acute social observation appear i...

  • Best of Father Brown

    The father of modern detectives

    As punctilious as Poirot, as Miss Marple and as sharp as Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown ranks higher than all of them in the pantheon of literary sleuths. For the confessional, this humble, innocent little priest...

  • The Blue Cross

    Between the silver ribbon of morning and the green glittering ribbon of sea, the boat touched Harwich and let loose a swarm of folk like flies, among whom the man we must follow was by no means conspicuous-nor wished to be. There was nothing notable ...

  • Father Brown: Complete Stories

    Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That first collection of stories established G.K. Chesterton's kindly c...

  • The Invisible Man

    In the cool blue twilight of two steep streets in Camden Town, the shop at the corner, a confectioner's, glowed like the butt of a cigar. One should rather say, perhaps, like the butt of a firework, for the light was of many colours and some complexi...



  • Selected Works of Gk Chesterton

    G. K. Chesterton was born in London in 1874. He went to St Paul's School and then on to the Slade School of Art. In 1900, he was asked to write a few magazine articles on art criticism, and from that beginning went on to become not only one of the mo...

  • Following Father Brown
  • Father Brown: Selected Stories

    â -- Annotatedâ -- Introductionâ -- Includes Rare Additional MaterialHercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Lieutenant Columbo, even the gruff Sam Spade all owe a great deal to G.K. Chesterton's beloved amateur detective Father Brown. Through five books...

  • The Astonishing Father Brown
  • Heretics

    Though he was on the whole a fun loving and gregarious man, during adolescence Chesterton was troubled by thoughts of suicide. In Christianity he found answers to many of the dilemmas and paradoxes of life. Throughout Heretics he provides a very pers...

  • Father Brown of the Church of Rome

    This is a unique collection of ten of Chesterton's famous Father Brown stories which puts special emphasis on the role that Brown's Catholic faith played in helping him solve the murder mysteries. As Dorothy Sayers once wrote, Chesterton was "the ...

  • What's Wrong with the World

    "Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - I originally called this book ""What is Wrong,"" and it would have satisfied your sar...

  • A Miscellany of Men

    From "The Nameless Man": There are only two forms of government the monarchy or personal government, and the republic or impersonal government. England is not a government; England is an anarchy, because there are so many kings. But there is one r...

  • The New Jerusalem

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  • Father Brown

    G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown may seem a pleasantly doddering Roman Catholic priest, but appearances deceive. With keen observation and an unerring sense of man’s frailtiesâ€"gained during his years listening to confessionsâ€"Father Brown succe...



  • The Everlasting Man

    "I read Chesterton's Everlasting Man and for the first time saw the whole Christian outline of history set out in a form that seemed to me to make sense..." -C.S. Lewis in Surprised by Joy "G. K. Chesterton routinely ignites more ideas per page than ...

  • Fancies Versus Fads

    Contents Include: The Romance of Rhyme Hamlet and the Psych-Analyst The Meaning of Mock Turkey Shakespeare and the Legal Lady On Being an Old Bean The Fear of the Film Wings and the Housemaid The Slavery of Free Verse Prohibition and the Press The Me...

  • The Fair Haven

  • Stories, Essays And Poems

    G. K. Chesterton is one of the most well respected authors of all time here are collected some of his most famous works. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly exp...

  • On Running After One's Hat And Other Whimsies

    This vintage book contains a collection of twenty essays on a variety of topics written by G. K. Chesterton. The essays are on unrelated subjects ranging from losing one’s hat, to lying in bed, and manage to be both insightful and amusing. A great ...

  • Magic: A Fantastic Comedy


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  • The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton Vol. II

    Collected here, in one volume are Gilbert K. Chesterton¿s most influential works of fiction. Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and commons, the horizon of which was fringed ...

  • A Short History of England

    Filled with Chestertonian wit, the fast-moving history includes such gemlike observations as, Henry VIII "was almost as unlucky in his wives as they were in their husband." Of the great late Victorian/Edwardian trio of wits: George Bernard Shaw, O...

  • The Return Of Don Quixote

    Michael Herne is a librarian at Seawood Abbey, an estate owned by Lord Seawood. When Lord Seawood's daughter and some of her friends want to put on a play called "Blondel the Troubadour," the librarian is asked to play the part of a medieval king. He...

  • The Flying Inn

    British writer GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON (1874â€"1936) expounded prolifically about his wide-ranging philosophies―he is impossible to categorize as “liberal†or “conservative,†for instance―across a wide variety of avenues: he was a litera...

  • The Utopia Of Usurers And Other Essays

    Utopia 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 1913â€"1915 for the Daily Herald, a Socialist paper wh...

  • Manalive

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  • The Coloured Lands

    Enter into one of the twentieth century's liveliest and most articulate minds with this long-unavailable book of delights. This jolly medley of drawings, fables, and poetry -- all laced with satirical wit -- abounds in G. K. Chesterton's unique combi...

  • The Defendant

    From detective stories and penny dreadfuls to skeletons, slang, and patriotism, G. K. Chesterton offers fresh perspectives on a remarkable range of subjects. The master essayist addresses each topic -- planets, humility, nonsense, ugly things -- ...

  • The Wit, Whimsy, And Wisdom Of G. K. Chesterton, Volume 1

    This volume includes two classic G. K. Chesterton novels, and his play, Magic. The Ball and the Cross is a religio-political fantasy, as a Catholic and an atheist try to keep ahead of the law in order to fight a duel. Manalive brings a man on trial, ...

  • Chesterton's Mysteries

    Volume one of a six volume collection

    Gilbert Keith Chesterton was one of the most influential English writers of the twentieth century. He put his mind and pen to a broad spectrum of subjects including theology, poetry, biography, journalism ...

  • The Early Father Brown

    G. K. Chesterton's famous detective-priest Father Brown solved crimes and guided souls. This volume includes the earliest short story collections: The Innocence of Father Brown, The Wisdom of Father Brown, and an uncollected two-part story, The Donni...

  • The Poet and the Lunatics

    An eccentric poet acts as spiritual detective in eight thought-provoking tales. Gabriel Gale employs his extraordinary gifts of empathy to solve and prevent crimes perpetrated by madmen. His philosophical police-work forms the basis for captivating e...

  • The Everyman Chesterton

    The first one-volume reader of the best of G. K. Chesterton’s writing in the full range of genres he mastered. Chesterton was a towering literary figure of the early twentieth century, accomplished and prolific in many literary forms. A forceful...

  • The Universe According to G. K. Chesterton

    This quirky, original compilation serves up the eccentric wit and thought-provoking aphorisms of one of the 20th century's liveliest and most articulate minds. Illustrated with several of the author's distinctive drawings....

  • The Disadvantage of Having Two Heads

    A delightful children's book by the author of "Orthodoxy" and "The Everlasting Man". Using exciting imagery, it teaches children to guard against the dangers of pluralism before they even are introduced to the concept. Includes 10...

  • Then Man Who Knew Too Much

    THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH is collection of short mysteries featuring Chesterton's amateur sleuth Horne Fisher.

    Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was a British author, philosopher, and Christian apologist. He wrote a number of influential r...

  • Annotated Innocence of Father Brown

    Father Brown, an ordinary priest whose unremarkable exterior conceals extraordinary crime-solving ability, is celebrated for his solutions to metaphysical mysteries, a genre perfected by his creator, G. K. Chesterton. More than lighthearted comedies ...

  • Father Brown, Lost and Found

    You are in for a rare treat.The three stories in this book, while part of the scholarly “Father Brown” canon, were never published in any of the five anthologies which comprise the stories normally available to the general public. The ...

  • Chesterton's the Blue Cross: Study Edition

    This text includes the entire short story "The Blue Cross" by G. K. Chesterton as well as extensive study material by Nancy Carpentier Brown. "The Blue Cross" was Chesterton's first Father Brown mystery, in which he introduced the reader to Father Br...

  • The Complete Father Brown Stories

    All the Father Brown stories from five classic volumes -- in one definitive edition With his cherubic face and unworldly simplicity, his glasses and huge umbrella, Father Brown is one of the most unforgettable characters in literature. The Complet...

  • The Fairy Tale of Father Brown

    Despite his prosaic appearance and generally practical walk of life, Father Brown was not without a certain streak of romance in his composition, though he generally kept his daydreams to himself, as many children do. Amid the brisk, bright colours o...

  • The Strange Crime of John Boulnois

    The rest of the group made increased haste towards the lodge-gates, where an inspector and two constables could already be seen in consultation with the lodge-keeper. But the little priest only walked slower and slower in the dim cloister of pine, an...

  • The Absence of Mr. Glass

    Born in London, Chesterton was educated at St. Paul's, but never went to college. He went to art school. 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....

  • The Duel of Dr. Hirsch

    "You mean the information is wrong?" asked Father Brown. "Wrong," replied the other, "and wrong exactly where Dr Hirsch would have been right-about the hiding-place of his own secret formula in his own official department. By favour of Hirsch and the...

  • The Eye of Apollo Father Brown

    "What on earth is that?" asked Father Brown, and stood still. "Oh, a new religion," said Flambeau, laughing; "one of those new religions that forgive your sins by saying you never had any. Rather like Christian Science, I should think. The fact is th...

  • The God of the Gongs

    "I suppose," said Father Brown, turning up his coat-collar and drawing a woollen scarf rather closer round his neck, "that we are approaching a pleasure resort." "I fear," answered Flambeau, "a pleasure resort to which few people just now have the pl...

  • The Head of Caesar

    Father Brown took a small book out of his pocket and began to read steadily; he betrayed no consciousness of the fact that the red-haired lady had left her own table and sat down opposite him. At last she leaned over and said in a low, strong voice: ...

  • The Honour of Israel Gow

    A stormy evening of olive and silver was closing in, as Father Brown, wrapped in a grey Scotch plaid, came to the end of a grey Scotch valley and beheld the strange castle of Glengyle. It stopped one end of the glen or hollow like a blind alley; and ...

  • The Man in the Passage

    Before Father Brown could turn in his heavy boots Seymour was plunging about the room looking for the weapon. And before he could possibly find that weapon or any other, a brisk running of feet broke upon the pavement outside, and the square face of ...

  • The Mistake of the Machine

    "What sentimentalists men of science are " exclaimed Father Brown, "and how much more sentimental must American men of science be Who but a Yankee would think of proving anything from heart-throbs? Why, they must be as sentimental as a man who think...

  • The Paradise of Thieves

    THE great Muscari, most original of the young Tuscan poets, walked swiftly into his favourite restaurant, which overlooked the Mediterranean, was covered by an awning and fenced by little lemon and orange trees. Waiters in white aprons were already l...

  • The Perishing of the Pendragons

    FATHER BROWN was in no mood for adventures. He had lately fallen ill with over-work, and when he began to recover, his friend Flambeau had taken him on a cruise in a small yacht with Sir Cecil Fanshaw, a young Cornish squire and an enthusiast for Cor...

  • Poems

    G.K. Chesterton was an English writer often referred to as "the prince of paradox." Chesterton wrote on a variety of different subjects including mystery fiction, religion, and literary critiques. Chesterton is best known for creating the priest-dete...

  • The Purple Wig

    The librarian turned to him and seemed to forget my presence; he was strongly moved and, I think, a little heated with wine. "I don't know how you know it, Father Brown," he said, "but you are right. He lets the whole world do everything for him-exce...

  • The Salad of Colonel Cray

    FATHER BROWN was walking home from Mass on a white weird morning when the mists were slowly lifting-one of those mornings when the very element of light appears as something mysterious and new. The scattered trees outlined themselves more and more ou...

  • The Short Stories of Gk Chesterton

    The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail....

  • The Sign of the Broken Sword

    The thousand arms of the forest were grey, and its million fingers silver. In a sky of dark green-blue-like slate the stars were bleak and brilliant like splintered ice. All that thickly wooded and sparsely tenanted countryside was stiff with a bitte...

  • The Three Tools of Death

    Both by calling and conviction Father Brown knew better than most of us, that every man is dignified when he is dead. But even he felt a pang of incongruity when he was knocked up at daybreak and told that Sir Aaron Armstrong had been murdered. There...

  • The Flying Stars Father Brown

    "I think," said Sir Leopold, with a supercilious smile, "that Ruby means a Socialist." "A radical does not mean a man who lives on radishes," remarked Crook, with some impatience; "and a Conservative does not mean a man who preserves jam. Neither, I ...

  • The Aweful Reason of the Vicar's Visit

    "My head went round and round. Was it really true, as I had suddenly fancied a moment before, that unmarried ladies had some dreadful riotous society of their own from which all others were excluded? I remembered dimly in my classical days (I was a s...

  • The Eccentric Seclusion of the Old Lady

    I made several apoplectic efforts to rise, but the servant was on top of me so heavily that Greenwood could afford to leave me to him. He turned quickly to come to reinforce the two who were mastering Basil. The latter's head was already sinking lowe...

  • George Bernard Shaw

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  • The Hammer of God

    The little village of Bohun Beacon was perched on a hill so steep that the tall spire of its church seemed only like the peak of a small mountain. At the foot of the church stood a smithy, generally red with fires and always littered with hammers and...

  • The Noticeable Conduct of Proffesor Chadd

    It was extremely late when we left the Chadds, and it is an extremely long and tiresome journey from Shepherd's Bush to Lambeth. This may be our excuse for the fact that we (for I was stopping the night with Grant) got down to breakfast next day at a...

  • The Painful Fall of a Great Reputation

    "Bosh," he said. "On what else is the whole world run but immediate impressions? What is more practical? My friend, the philosophy of this world may be founded on facts, its business is run on spiritual impressions and atmospheres. Why do you refuse ...

  • The Queer Feet

    If you meet a member of that select club, "The Twelve True Fishermen," entering the Vernon Hotel for the annual club dinner, you will observe, as he takes off his overcoat, that his evening coat is green and not black. If (supposing that you have the...

  • The Singular Speculation of the House-Agent

    "Oh, you jolly old early Christian duffer," cried Rupert, in a sort of rapture, "I don't wonder you couldn't be a judge. You think every one as good as yourself. Isn't the thing plain enough now? A doubtful acquaintance; rowdy stories, a most suspici...

  • The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown

    Rabelais, or his wild illustrator Gustave Dore, must have had something to do with the designing of the things called flats in England and America. There is something entirely Gargantuan in the idea of economising space by piling houses on top of eac...

  • Father Brown Saves the Day

    •This classic collection is lushly illustrated with more than 80 photographs to enrich the readers experience.Father Brown is a short, nondescript Roman Catholic priest whose insight into human evil makes him gifted at solving crimes. Unlike Sherlo...

  • What I Saw In America

    I have never managed to lose my old conviction that travel narrows the mind. At least a man must make a double effort of moral humility and imaginative energy to prevent it from narrowing his mind. Indeed there is something touching and even tragic a...

  • The lub of Queer Trades

    Rabelais, or his wild illustrator Gustave Dore, must have had something to do with the designing of the things called flats in England and America. There is something entirely Gargantuan in the idea of economising spacng houses on top of each other, ...

  • Robert Browning

    On the subject of Browning's work innumerable things have been said and remain to be said; of his life, considered as a narrative of facts, there is little or nothing to say. It was a lucid and public and yet quiet life, which culminated in one great...

  • The Sins of Prince Saradine

    When Flambeau took his month's holiday from his office in Westminster he took it in a small sailing-boat, so small that it passed much of its time as a rowing-boat. He took it, moreover, in little rivers in the Eastern counties, rivers so small that ...

  • A Chesterton on Calendar
  • A Chesterton Calendar

    " ...]you how to treat a tiger reasonably-that is, to admire his stripes while avoiding his claws. If you want to treat a tiger reasonably, you must go back to the garden of Eden. 'Orthodoxy.' JANUARY 23rd Some priggish little clerk will say, 'I have...

  • Father Brown and the Ten Commandments

    This unique collection of Father Brown mysteries links tales by G.K. Chesterton with the Ten Commandments. The connection is often surprising, however, for the criminal is not necessarily the worst sinner in the story, nor is his crime necessarily th...

  • A Father Brown Mystery
  • The Selected Tales of Father Brown

    Early 20th century English author Gilbert Keith Chesterton may be best remembered for his stories which feature the character of an English priest and detective named Father Brown. While the character was based on a real life priest who was involved ...

  • The Donnington Affair

    In the October 1914 issue of the British magazine The Premier, Sir Max Pemberton published the first part of this story, inviting a number of writers, including Chesterton, to use their talents to solve the mystery of the murder described. Chesterton...

  • St. Francis of Assisi

    Saint Francis of Assisi (Italian: San Francesco d'Assisi, Latin: Sanctus Franciscus Assisiensis), born Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, informally named as Francesco (1181/1182 â€" 3 October 1226),was an Italian Catholic friar, deacon and preacher. ...

  • The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

    Enthralled by the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Victorian readers around the world developed a fascination with eccentric detectives and bizarre crimes. Featuring an international array of authors and characters, this compilation of 16 short stories...

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G.K. Chesterton has published 116 books.

G.K. Chesterton does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, was published in December 2019.

The first book by G.K. Chesterton, Greybeards at Play, was published in January 1900.

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