The Gilbert Keith Chesterton Page

( 1874-1936 )

Major Works
Stories, Essays and Poems was published by Dent in the Everyman's Library in 1935, and Dodd, Mead published a larger anthology, The Man Who Was Chesterton in 1951. There are several works published by Dover Publications. Chesterton's Collected Works under the general editorship of George Marlin, John L. Swan and Richard P. Rabatin ( Ignatius Press, 1986-) will run to forty-five volumes. The same publisher has a Chesterton anthology by P. J. Kavanagh.
Robert Browning ( 1902 ).
Varied Types ( 1903 ).
The Napoleon of Notting Hill ( 1904 ).
The Club of Queer Trades ( 1905 ).
Heretics ( 1905 ).
Charles Dickens ( 1906 ).
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare ( 1908 ).
The Ball and the Cross ( 1909 ).
Orthodoxy ( 1909 ).
George Bernard Shaw ( 1909; 1935 ).
Tremendous Trifles ( 1909 ).
What's Wrong with the World ( 1910 ).
The Ballad of the White Horse ( 1911 ). This poem and others are available in Poems for All Occasions, edited byStephen Medcalf. Pimlico, 1994.
Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens ( 1911 ). Reprinted by Everyman, 1992.
The Innocence of Father Brown ( 1911 ). This collection of priestly detective stories was followed over the next twenty-five years by four other collections. The Complete Father Brown was published by Penguin in 1987. The Wisdom of Father Brown On Line
Manalive ( 1912 ).
The Victorian Age in Literature ( 1913 ).
Magic ( 1913 ).
The Flying Inn ( 1914 ).
A Short History of England ( 1917 ).
The Superstition of Divorce ( 1920 ).
The Uses of Diversity ( 1920 ).
The Ballad of St. Barbara ( 1922 ).
What I Saw in America ( 1922 ).
Fancies Versus Fads ( 1923 ).
St. Francis of Assisi ( 1923 ).
The Everlasting Man ( 1925 ).
Tales of the Long Bow ( 1925 ).
William Cobbett ( 1925 )
The Outline of Sanity ( 1926 ).
Collected Poems ( 1927 ).
Eugenics and Other Evils ( 1927 ).
The Return of Don Quixote ( 1927 ).
Do We Agree: A Debate Between Chesterton and Shaw ( 1928 ).
Four Faultless Felons ( 1930 ).
Chaucer ( 1932 ).
St. Thomas Aquinas ( 1933 ).
The Autobiography of G. K. Chesterton ( 1936 ).
The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond ( 1936 ).
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About Chesterton
Maisie Ward, Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Sheed and Ward, 1944.
The American Chesterton Society
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