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G.K. Chesterton Biography

in full Gilbert Keith Chesterton

(1874 - 1936)

Related Works

Novels
1905 The Club of Queer Trades (short stories)
1906 The Napoleon of Notting Hill

1908 The Man Who was Thursday: A Nightmare
1911 The Innocence of Father Brown
1914 The Flying Inn
1930 The Scandal of Father Brown
Poetry
1900 Greybeards at Play - Literature and Art for Old Gentlemen
1900 The Wild Knight and Other Poems
1911 The Ballad of the White Horse
1915 Poems
1927 New Poems
1933 Collected Poems
Literary Criticism
1903 Robert Browning
1906 Charles Dickens
1910 George Bernard Shaw
1910 William Blake
1913 The Victorian Age in Literature
1925 William Cobbett
1933 Chaucer
Other
1905 Heretics
1908 Orthodoxy
1909 Tremendous Trifles
1910 All Things Considered
1910 What's Wrong with the World?
1912 A Miscellany of Men
1920 The Uses of Diversity
1923 St Francis of Assisi
1933 St Thomas Aquinas
Autobiography
1936 As I Was Saying

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(born May 29, 1874, London, Eng.—died June 14, 1936, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire) British man of letters. Chesterton was a journalist, a scholar, a novelist and short-story writer, and a poet. His works of social and literary criticism include Robert Browning (1903), Charles Dickens (1906), and The Victorian Age in Literature (1913). Even before his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1922, he was interested in theology and religious argument. His fiction includes The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904), the popular allegorical novel The Man Who Was Thursday (1908), and his most successful creation, the series of detective novels featuring the priest-sleuth Father Brown.