G. K. Chesterton

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Essays & Short Works

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G. K. Chesterton - Uses of Diversity

A collection of 35 essays by G.K. Chesterton originally published in his weekly columns in «The Illustrated London News» and the «New Witness». The subjects vary greatly from lamp posts to Jane Austen's Emma, from «On...

thestorygirl and 14 more 5 hours 37 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

548

G. K. Chesterton - Eugenics and Other Evils

Most Eugenists are Euphemists. I mean merely that short words startle them, while long words soothe them. And they are utterly incapable of translating the one into the other, however obviously they mean the same...

Ray Clare 5 hours 17 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

560

G. K. Chesterton - St. Francis of Assisi

For Chesterton, Francis of Assisi is a great paradoxical figure, a man who loved women but vowed himself to chastity; an artist who loved the pleasures of the natural world as few have loved them, but vowed himself to...

Phil Chenevert 4 hours 50 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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G. K. Chesterton - Club of Queer Trades

A collection of six wonderfully quirky detective stories, featuring the 'mystic' former judge Basil Grant. Each story reveals a practitioner of an entirely new profession, and member of the Club of Queer Trades....

David Barnes 4 hours 48 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

601

G. K. Chesterton - Varied Types

Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of our day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Here he uses his wit and mastery of paradox to bring into focus a number of...

Ray Clare 4 hours 45 minutes

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Poetry

446

G. K. Chesterton - Chesterton Calendar

Go through the year, day by day, with the wit and wisdom of G.K. Chesterton! Compiled from the writings of 'G.K.C', both in verse and in prose, each day of the year is provided with a generally short quotation from...

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Essays & Short Works

449

G. K. Chesterton - Irish Impressions

“For the Irish Question has never been discussed in England. Men have discussed Home Rule; but those who advocated it most warmly, and as I think wisely, did not even know what the Irish meant by Home. Men have...

Ray Clare 4 hours 17 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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G. K. Chesterton - Utopia of Usurers

“Now I have said again and again (and I shall continue to say again and again on all the most inappropriate occasions) that we must hit Capitalism, and hit it hard, for the plain and definite reason that it is...

Ray Clare 3 hours 40 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

465

G. K. Chesterton - Crimes of England

«Second, when telling such lies as may seem necessary to your international standing, do not tell the lies to the people who know the truth. Do not tell the Eskimos that snow is bright green; nor tell the negroes in...

Ray Clare 3 hours 27 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

547

G. K. Chesterton - Defendant

A collection of reprinted articles on a wide-range of subjects, all in the unique style of G. K. Chesterton. Using wit, paradox, and good humor he “defends” a series of seeming harmless things that need no defense,...

Ray Clare 3 hours 16 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

512

G. K. Chesterton - Superstition of Divorce

This short book was written in 1920, and in it Chesterton, with his usual wit and incisive logic, presents a series of articles defending marriage and indicating the weaknesses in divorce. He did this 16 years before...

Ray Clare 2 hours 36 minutes

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Poetry

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G. K. Chesterton - Poems

Originally published in 1916, this book of poetry by G.K. Chesterton includes 59 poems on a variety of subjects. Included in this are war poems, love poems, religious poems, ballades and more (Summary by Maria Therese)

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Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

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Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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