Books by G. K. Chesterton

This collection of more than 60 of Aesop's fables includes "The Tortoise and the Hare," "The Boy who Cried Wolf," and "The Lion and the Mouse." Color illustrations accompany the text. Named a Year 2000 Notable Book by the New York Times, and one of the Best Children's Books 2000 by Publishers Weekly.

A Catholic and an atheist battle to the death in a comic critique of modern religious thought.

As punctilious as Poirot, as shrewd as Miss Marple and as sharp as Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown ranks higher than all of them in the pantheon of literary sleuths. For in the confessional this unassuming, innocent little priest has gained a deep and intuitive knowledge of the paradoxes of human nature. So when murder, mayhem and mystery stalk smart society, only Father Brown can be counted upon to discover the startling truth.

Father Brown, one of G. K. Chesterton's most popular characters, is featured in this collection of ecclesiastical mysteries.

In one of his many literary critical studies, G. K. Chesterton examines the writings of the 14th-century English poet Geoffrey Chaucher.

Six hilarious short stories about bizarre activities of a club devoted to completely original professions. Thirty two original Chesterton drawings.

The English journalist and writer's collected poems reflect his humor and humanity as well as his religious fervor.

Three critical essays on religion and philosophy comprise the first volume in G. K. Chesterton's collected works.

Articles that first appeared in "The Illustrated London News" are reprinted in the 32nd volume in G. K. Chesterton's complete works.

The third volume in Chesterton's complete works consists of theological essays.

Articles that first appeared in "The Illustrated London News" are reprinted in the 32nd volume in G. K. Chesterton's complete works.

Articles that first appeared in "The Illustrated London News" are reprinted in the 32nd volume in G. K. Chesterton's complete works.

Critical writings on the great English novelist Charles Dickens comprise the 15th volume in G. K. Chesterton's complete works.

Three critical essays on religion and philosophy comprise the first volume in G. K. Chesterton's collected works.

This collection brings together critical studies on some of the literary canon's greatest writers.

Some of Chesterton's earliest and most popular mysteries are collected in the sixth volume in his complete works.

The eleventh volume of G. K. Chesterton's complete works includes his plays, as well as critical writings on his friend and frequent nemesis, George Bernard Shaw.

Articles that first appeared in "The Illustrated London News" are reprinted in the 32nd volume in G. K. Chesterton's complete works.

Articles that first appeared in "The Illustrated London News" are reprinted in the 32nd volume in G. K. Chesterton's complete works.

In this critique of the role of the common man in society, Chesterton denounces socialism as the "welfare state."

Articles that first appeared in "The Illustrated London News" are reprinted in the 32nd volume in G. K. Chesterton's complete works.

After writing many critical essays on other writers, Chesterton looked his own life and work in this autobiography, which he finished shortly before his death.

An anthology of thirty-five previously uncollected stories ranges from witty frolics to chilling tales of madness and murder.

The writings collected here are from a school of English thinkers in the 1930s and 1940s who were concerned about the desperate state of modern society. The writers include G. K. Chesterton, H. J. Massingham, Eric Gill, Hilaire Belloc, Herbert Shove, and Arthur Penty. They study various parts of the problem of capitalist society; the origins, benefits, and demerits of industrialism; the importance of art to society and its sufferance under capitalism; the size of commercial organization and its relevance to efficiency; the nature and purpose of work as a concept; and the crucial nature of understanding the present through real knowledge of the past.

In Robert Louis Stevenson's nightmarish, suspenseful, and deeply disturbing novel, Dr. Jekyll experiments with a drug that splits his personality into good and evil elements. Gradually, he loses control of the process and finds himself slipping more and more frequently into the guise of the evil and depraved Hyde. Finally, Hyde is accused of murder, and the good doctor, tormented by the struggle between good and evil that he embodies, is forced into an act of violence by his tortured conscience. Narrated by several onlookers, as well as by Jekyll himself, DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, one of the earliest "horror" tales (1886), is arguably the most famous horror story ever written; the concept of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" to signify a split personality has become deeply embedded in the public consciousness, even for those who have never read the book. It has, of course, been dramatized numerous times in numerous ways; it has prompted many interpretations since its publication in 1886, including the view that it was a precursor of Freud's work on the ego and the libido. Stevenson wrote the novel in a fever, finishing it in less than three days while he was deathly ill with tuberculosis. He lived, however, eight more years, dying in Samoa at the age of 44.

Describes the enlightenment that man can find in Christianity.

G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown may seem a pleasantly doddering Roman Catholic priest, but appearances deceive. With keen observation and an unerring sense of man’s frailties–gained during his years listening to confessions–Father Brown succeeds in bringing even the most elusive criminals to justice.

This definitive collection of fifteen stories, selected by the American Chesterton Society, includes such classics as “The Blue Cross,” “The Secret Garden,” and “The Paradise of Thieves.” As P. D. James writes in her Introduction, “We read the Father Brown stories for a variety pleasures, including their ingenuity, their wit and intelligence, and for the brilliance of the writing. But they provide more. Chesterton was concerned with the greatest of all problems, the vagaries of the human heart.”

Ten of the lesser-known Father Brown stories, with footnotes.

"The blue Cross." "The sins of Prince saradine," "The Sign of the Broken Sword," "The Man in the Passage," two more.

A series of four intertwined novellas whose central characters appear to be involved in murder, fraud, theft and treason.

Cold-blooded crime and challenging plot twists make this collection a chilling audiobook experience! Includes "Ride the Lightning" by John Lutz and read by Susan Anspach; "The Blue Cross" by G.K. Chesterton and read by David Warner; "The Whimper of Whipped Dogs" written and read by Harlan Ellison; "The New Girlfriend" by Ruth Rendell and read by Stephanie Beacham; "By the Dawn's Early Light" by Lawrence Block and read by Robert Forster; "Prisoners" by Ed Gorman and read by Richard Cox; and several others. Unabridged. Available now.

G. K. Chesterton criticizes prevailing theological philosophies of his day.

Chesterton addresses the political and social necessity of a strong, moral family in the fourth volume in his collected works.

The 29th volume of the complete works of G. K. Chesterton consists of two years' worth of articles that he published in "The Illustrated London News".

The inimitable Father Brown is called in to help in the hunt for a mysterious killer, known only as an "invisible man" to all those in the investigation, in a collection of mysteries that also includes "The Wrong Shape," "The Flying Stars," and "The Queer Feet."

Gabriel Syme, a poet and member of the Philosophical Policemen, must combat the Supreme Council of Seven, a group of anarchists each of whom is named for a day of the week.

THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, Dickens's last novel, left unfinished when he died in June 1870, is set in an English cathedral town. It tells the potentially sordid tale of an opium addict, John Jasper; Rosa Bud, the woman he loves; Edwin Drood, who disappears during a Christmas Eve storm; and Dick Datchery, the detective in charge of the case, who is obviously not what he seems. Although many endings to the tangled story have been proposed, Dickens's intentions are unknown.

A common man is set to become king in this satire of modern society, government, and royalty.

Chestertons classic explanation of the essentials of the Christian faith and of his pilgrimage to belief. Written in 1908, it displays all the intellectual clarity and literary skill of one of this century's greatest and most thoughtful authors.

Eight suspenseful tales featuring Chesterton's delightful amateur sleuth.

Father Brown is the most popular of Chesterton's fictional characters--a naive-seeming parish priest who has a fundamental knowledge of the evil in the human spirit, gathered through his confessional work. This gives him an advantage over the traditional detective, because he can see that anyone at all is capable of doing any kind of evil. It is this sense of morality, of good and evil, that raises Chesterton's detective fiction above the level of the traditional mystery story.

Chesterton offers a witty, lighthearted defense of Christianity after the religion came under attack in 1903 England.

Collects quotations on a wide range of subjects including God, fairy tales, history, virtues, laughter, the English, and optimism.

A trade paperback edition of the classic portrait of Thomas Aquinas, one of the greatest of Christian philosophers, by one of the greatest of modern religious writers.

A boy discovers Father Christmas, who thinks he is dying, in a toyshop, but figures from England's past come back to say that he was dying in their day, too, and he is still alive.

Prose and poetry deal with the Christmas story, carols, plum puddings, Christmas literature, holiday meals, Dickens, presents, and the spirit of Christmas.

Chesterton examines the life of the great writer and theologian, St. Francis of Assisi, "whose whole life was a poem."

G. K. Chesterton studies the great Victorian poet, Alfred Lord Tennyson.

An ecclesiastical poem about Alfred the Great, King of England, by the mystery writer and theologian, G. K. Chesterton.

Collects Chesterton's mysteries featuring sleuths other than Father Brown, such as "The Three Horseman of the Apocalypse" with a Mr. Pond, but features as well one previously uncollected Father Brown story, "Father Brown and the Donnington Affair"

A collection of mystery stories culled from the pages of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine features the work of John Mortimer, G. K. Chesterton, Ralph McInerny, and others. Original.

This collection brings together many of G. K. Chesterton's popular essays on politics, economics, and the role of religion in society.

This social and political critique defends the role of the common man in society.