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G. K. Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English author, philosopher, Christian apologist, and literary and art critic.[2]

Not to be confused with A. K. Chesterton.

G. K. Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(1874-05-29)29 May 1874
Kensington, London, England

14 June 1936(1936-06-14) (aged 62)
Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England

Roman Catholic Cemetery, Beaconsfield

  • Journalist
  • novelist
  • essayist
  • poet

1900–1936

(m. 1901)

Chesterton created the fictional priest-detective Father Brown,[3] and wrote on apologetics. Even some of those who disagree with him have recognised the wide appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man.[4][5] Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an orthodox Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting from high church Anglicanism. Biographers have identified him as a successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, John Henry Newman and John Ruskin.[6]


He has been referred to as the "prince of paradox".[7] Of his writing style, Time observed: "Whenever possible, Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out."[4] His writings were an influence on Jorge Luis Borges, who compared his work with that of Edgar Allan Poe.[8]

Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (1904), Ward, M. (ed.),

The Napoleon of Notting Hill

——— (1903), Robert Browning, [122]

Macmillan

——— (1905), , John Lane

Heretics

——— (1906), , Dodd, Mead & Co., p. 299

Charles Dickens: A Critical Study

——— (1908a),

The Man Who Was Thursday

——— (1908b),

Orthodoxy

——— (1911a),

The Innocence of Father Brown

——— (1911b),

The Ballad of the White Horse

——— (1912),

Manalive

——— (1916), The Crimes of England

———, (short stories) (detective fiction)

Father Brown

——— (1920), Ward, M. (ed.), , archived from the original on 15 January 2017

The New Jerusalem

——— (1922), , Simon & Brown, ISBN 1731700563

The Man Who Knew Too Much

——— (1922),

Eugenics and Other Evils 

——— (1923), Saint Francis of Assisi

——— (1925),

The Everlasting Man

——— (1925), William Cobbett

——— (1933), Saint Thomas Aquinas

——— (1935), The Well and the Shallows

——— (1936), The Autobiography

——— (1950), Ward, M. (ed.), , archived from the original on 15 January 2017

The Common Man

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Works by G. K. Chesterton in eBook form

at Project Gutenberg

Works by G. K. Chesterton

at Faded Page (Canada)

Works by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

at Internet Archive

Works by or about G. K. Chesterton

at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

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at Curlie

G. K. Chesterton

at HathiTrust

Works by G. K. Chesterton

. UK National Archives.

"Archival material relating to G. K. Chesterton"

Articles by G. K. Chesterton in periodicals, with critical annotations.

What's Wrong: GKC in Periodicals

, retrieved 28 October 2010.

The American Chesterton Society

G. K. Chesterton: Quotidiana

at The Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College

G. K. Chesterton research collection

at the University of St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto

G. K. Chesterton Archival Collection

in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW

Newspaper clippings about G. K. Chesterton

, retrieved 3 September 2023

Scuola Libera G. K. Chesterton

, retrieved 3 September 2023

Società Chestertoniana Italiana