The Author Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere “rollicking journalist,” he was actually a prolific and gifted writer in virtually every area of literature. A man of strong opinions and enormously talented at defending them, his exuberant personality nevertheless allowed him to maintain warm friendships with people–such as George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells–with whom he vehemently disagreed. Chesterton had no diff ...
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Orthodoxy is a book that has become a classic of Christian apologetics. In the book's preface Chesterton states the purpose is to "attempt an explanation, not of whether the Christian faith can be believed, but of how he personally has come to believe it." In it, Chesterton presents an original view of the Christian religion. He sees it as the answer to natural human needs, the "answer to a riddle" in his own words, and not simply as an arbitrary truth received from somewhere outside the bou ...
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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 civilization and barbarism. So it has always been, and that remains true even today.“But it is especially in the matter of the Middle Ages that the popular histories trample upon the popular traditions. In this respect there is an almost comic contrast between the general informat ...
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Robbery, murder and treason. Strange happenings in quiet English villages. A book critic who happens to find a corpse with its head crushed, an Irish freedom fighter framed for a crime, the disappearance of a valuable coin, a strange dispute over a property claim and a host of other intriguing situations make up the contents of G K Chesterton's collection of short stories The Man Who Knew Too Much. For fans of Chesterton's immortal clerical sleuth, Father Brown, these stories are equally del ...
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1 - Introduction in Defence of Everything Else
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Chapter 3 – The soul of the schoolboy
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03 – On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Making the World Small
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Chapter 5 – The fad of the fisherman
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05 – St. Edward and the Norman Kings
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07 – The Problem of the Plantagenets
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Chapter 8 – The vengeance of the statue
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08 – The Mildness of the Yellow Press
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09 – Nationality and the French Wars
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12 – Spain and the Schism of Nations
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12 – Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson
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15 – The War with the Great Republics
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14 – On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family
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16 – Aristocracy and the Discontents
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15 – On Smart Novelists and the Smart Set
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