G. K. Chesterton Books


The Ballad of the White Horse

G. K. Chesterton

The Ballad of the White Horse is a poem by G. K. Chesterton about the idealised exploits of the Saxon King Alfred the Great, published in 1911. Written in ballad form, the work has been described as o..

Saint Francis of Assisi

G. K. Chesterton

By universal acclaim, this biography by G. K. Chesterton is considered the best appreciation of Francis's life--the one that gets to the heart of the matter...

The Man Who Knew Too Much

G. K. Chesterton

The Man Who Knew Too Much and other stories is a book of detective stories by English writer G. K. Chesterton, published in 1922 by Cassell and Company in the United Kingdom, and Harper Brothers in th..

The Appetite of Tyranny

G. K. Chesterton

The Appetite of Tyranny: Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian is a historic work written by G.K. Chesterton. ..

A Short History of England

G. K. Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936) was a massively prolific English writer whose diverse output included journalism, play writing, philosophy, poetry, literary criticism, biography, Christian apol..

The Innocence of Father Brown

G. K. Chesterton

The first compilation of Father Brown short stories, The Innocence of Father Brown, is the best place to start when diving into the world of G.K. Chesterson's classic detective stories. Father Brown i..

The Wild Knight and Other Poems

G. K. Chesterton

A collection of poems that tend to revolve around the theme of the wonder of the world. It includes the short, poetic play, "The Wild Knight". Summary by Robert Smith..

Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens

G. K. Chesterton

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 rece..