G. K. Chesterton

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Essays & Short Works

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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...

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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...

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Essays & Short Works

494

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...

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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...

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Literary Criticism

528

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...

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

567

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...

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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...

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Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens

Essays & Short Works

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G. K. Chesterton - Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens

“These papers were originally published as prefaces to the separate books of Dickens in one of the most extensive of those cheap libraries of the classics which are one of the real improvements of recent times. Thus...

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Essays & Short Works

535

G. K. Chesterton - Appetite of Tyranny

“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...

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Fantastic Fiction

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G. K. Chesterton - Ball and the Cross

The Ball and the Cross is G. K. Chesterton's third novel. In the introduction Martin Gardner notes that it is a «mixture of fantasy, farce and theology.» Gardner continues: «Evan MacIan is a tall, dark-haired,...

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Biography & Autobiography

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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,...

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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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...

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