G. K. Chesterton Books


The Victorian Age in Literature

G. K. Chesterton

A section of a long and splendid literature can be most conveniently treated in one of two ways. It can be divided as one cuts a currant cake or a Gruyère cheese, taking the currants (or the holes) as..

The Man Who Was Thursday - A Nightmare

G. K. Chesterton

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a political thriller written by G.K. Chesterton, an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as t..

Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays

G. K. Chesterton

Most people have seen a picture called “Bubbles,” which is used for the advertisement of a celebrated soap, a small cake of which is introduced into the pictorial design. And anybody with an instinct ..

What I Saw in America

G. K. Chesterton

Travel ought to combine amusement with instruction; but most travellers are so much amused that they refuse to be instructed. I do not blame them for being amused; it is perfectly natural to be amused..