G. K. Chesterton

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G. K. Chesterton - Short History of England

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a prolific writer on many topics. His views of history were always from the standpoint of men and their interactions, and it may fairly be said he saw all of history as a battle between...

Ray Clare 6 hours 50 minutes

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Short non-fiction

G. K. Chesterton - All Things Considered

Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of this day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. These reprinted magazine articles are filled with his good natured wit, his...

Ray Clare 6 hours 39 minutes

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Literary Criticism

G. K. Chesterton - Robert Browning

There is an old anecdote, probably apocryphal, which describes how a feminine admirer wrote to Browning asking him for the meaning of one of his darker poems, and received the following reply: «When that poem was...

Ray Clare 6 hours 32 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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G. K. Chesterton - Tremendous Trifles

“None of us think enough of these things on which the eye rests. But don't let us let the eye rest. Why should the eye be so lazy? Let us exercise the eye until it learns to see startling facts that run across the...

Ray Clare 6 hours 15 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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G. K. Chesterton - Manalive

The flying blast struck London just where it scales the northern heights, terrace above terrace, as precipitous as Edinburgh. It was round about this place that some poet, probably drunk, looked up astonished at all...

Ray Clare 6 hours 12 minutes

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G. K. Chesterton - Orthodoxy

With his typical wit and erudition Chesterton presents Christianity as the best answer to a series of interlocking riddles that live in every human heart. — Summary by Pleonic

J A Carter 6 hours 2 minutes

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Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers

G. K. Chesterton - Man Who Was Thursday, A Nightmare

In a surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, a poet, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist taskforce at Scotland Yard. Lucian Gregory, an anarchist poet, is the only poet in Saffron Park, until he loses...

Zachary Brewster-Geisz 6 hours

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Essays & Short Works

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G. K. Chesterton - Miscellany of Men

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was among the world's most prolific writers who incorporated relentless logic, wonderful humor, and a clear view of truth into an amazing tool for exposing the foolishness of the policies of...

Ray Clare 5 hours 58 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

G. K. Chesterton - Napoleon of Notting Hill

While the novel is humorous (one instance has the King sitting on top of an omnibus and speaking to it as to a horse: «Forward, my beauty, my Arab,» he said, patting the omnibus encouragingly, «fleetest of all thy...

Ray Clare 5 hours 56 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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G. K. Chesterton - Man Who Knew Too Much

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an influential and prolific English writer of the early 20th century. He was a journalist, a poet and a novelist. He wrote 80 books and 200 short stories in addition to his...

Martin Clifton 5 hours 49 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

G. K. Chesterton - George Bernard Shaw

Chesterton and Shaw were famous friends and enjoyed their arguments and discussions. Although rarely in agreement, they both maintained good-will towards and respect for each other. However, in his writing,...

Ray Clare 5 hours 46 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

G. K. Chesterton - Alarms and Discursions

Gilbert Keith Chesterton 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...

Ray Clare 5 hours 41 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

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

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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