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It is a slim collection of poems but excellent content. I love Chesterton's poetry he is a modern writer with a Romantic pen. ... Read more

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Volumes XXVII through XXXVII of The Collected Works Of G. K. Chesterton arecollected columns from The Illustrated London News. These volumescontain Chesterton s weekly columns beginning in 1905. Volume XXXIV contains 1926-1928. Thoughwritten for his very popular newspaper column over eighty years ago,Chesterton s timeless wisdom is just as relevant today as it was then. Author: G. K. Chesterton Contents: Columns from Illustrated London News, 1926-1928 Format: 665 pages, paperback Publisher: Ignatius Press ISBN: 9780898702941 ... Read more

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The Defendant is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. ... Read more

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Proof read please
I am a big fan of G K Chesterton and this book is great if you like "All things conidered" and "Tremendous trifles". The reason I have given this book one star is because of the format. There are so many obvious spelling mistakes, typos and new lines begun for no reason that it looks like this book was typed out in a hurry and then not proof read at all. I know that it was a cheap book but I didn't expect that books could be written that badly. My advice, spend a few more dollars and get a decent copy of this book. If I saw any other books with covers like this one, I would steer well clear of it.
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This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains twenty-three works by British author, philosopher, and apologist G.K. Chesterton.Includes classics such as 'Orthodoxy,' 'Manalive,' and 'All Things Considered.'With active table of contents for easy navigation.


Contents:

The Napoleon of Notting Hill
Heretics
The Man who was Thursday
Orthodoxy
Manalive
Eugenics and Other Evils
The Everlasting Man
All Things Considered
The Ball and the Cross
The Club of Queer Trades
The Barbarism of Berlin
The Crimes of England
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Defendant
A Miscellany of Men
The New Jerusalem
The Trees of Pride
Tremendous Trifles
Twelve Types
Utopia of Userers and Other Essays
What I Saw in America
What’s Wrong with the World
Four Faultless Felons
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The Unsurpassed Dean of Modern Thinkers
Read C.S. Lewis and you are reading the thoughts of G.K. Chesteron. Many, like Lewis, have drunk from the inexhaustible well of ideas that Chesterton left as a legacy. His works on Thomas Aquinas and The Everlasting Man, for instance, outstrip the specialists on Aquinas and surpass the insights of the most learned theologians. Chesterton, who won fame as a secular writer, excelled in a far greater way as a religious thinker. ... Read more

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Contents Include: Three Dedications To Edmund Clerihew Bentley To Hilaire Belloc To M.E.W War Poems Lepanto The March of the Black Mountain 1913 Blessed are the Peacemakers The Wife of Flanders The Crusader Returns from Captivity LOVE POEMS: Glencoe Love's Trappist Confessional Music The Deluge The Strange Music The Great Minimum The Mortal Answers The Marriage Song Bay Combe RELIGIOUS POEMS: The Wise Men The House of Christmas A Song of gifts to God The Kingdom of Heaven A Hymn for the Church Militant The Beatific Vision The Truce of Christmas A Hymn A Christmas Song for Three Guilds The Nativity A Child of the Snows A Word RHYMES FOR THE TIMES: Antichrist, or the Reunion of Christendom An Ode The Revolutionist, or Lines to a Statesman The Shakespeare Memorial The Horrible History of Jones The New Freethinker In Memoriam P.D Sonnet with the Compliments of the Season A Song of Swords A Song of Defeat Sonnet Africa The Dead Hero An Election Echo The Song of the Wheels The Secret People MISCELLANEOUS POEMS: Lost Ballad of the Sun Translation from Du Bellay The Higher Unity The Earth's Vigil On Righteous Indignation When I Came Back to Fleet Street A Cider Song The Last Hero BALLADES: Ballade D'Une Grande Dame A Ballade of an Anti-Puritan A Ballade of a Book Reviewer A Ballade of Suicide A Ballade of the First Rain ... Read more

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Volumes XXVII through XXXVII of The Collected Works Of G. K. Chesterton are collected columns from The Illustrated London News. Thesevolumes contain all of Chesterton s weekly columns beginning in1905. Volume XXX contains 1914-1916. Though written for his very popular newspaper column almost one hundredyears ago, Chesterton s timeless wisdom is just as relevant today as itwas then.The 130 columns in Volume XXX include: The Duties of a Citizen, Being Too Serious About Animals, Feminist Ideas About Women, The Idols of Agnostics, Pride The Supreme Evil, The Dead Words of Pacifists, False Mirror of Success, Two Creeds in Collision, My Country, Right or Wrong?, and A Peace Worthy of War. Author: G. K. Chesterton Contents: Columns from Illustrated London News, 1914-1916 Format: 600 pages, paperback Publisher: Ignatius Press ISBN: 9780898701975 ... Read more

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Mostly covers World War I
This is Volume 30 of the "Collected Works".Chesterton's editorials mainly cover political, social, historical, cultural and philosophical topics relating to World War I. As always, GK's insights are fascinating.Avowedly anti-Prussian, he lambastes the Germans at every turn. The more Chesterton writes about Germany, the easier it is to understand how Nazism and its horrors came about. Besides Germany, GK also deals extensively with happening in England, France, and the United States.All in all, a very relevant volume in this superb series! ... Read more

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If G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy: The Romance of Faith is, as he called it, a "slovenly autobiography," then we need more slobs in the world. In Orthodoxy, Chesterton argues that people in western society need a life of "practical romance, the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure. We need so to view the world as to combine an idea of wonder and an idea of welcome." Drawing on such figures as Fra Angelico, George Bernard Shaw, and St. Paul to make his points, Chesterton argues that submission to ecclesiastical authority is the way to achieve a good and balanced life. Orthodoxy is written in a style that is as majestic and down-to-earth as C.S. Lewis at his best. ... Read more

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The is the second volume of Chesterton's novels in this series of his Collected Works. (Volume VI is the other book of novels.) Besides his well-known philosophical-theological writings, Chesterton's fiction is very popular (Father Brown Mysteries, The Man Who Was Thursday, etc.) and among those who regarded him as a great literary figure are T.S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, C.S. Lewis and W.H. Auden. The reader will encounter characters in these novels that defend with great vigor the dignity of the person and fundamental Christian beliefs. ... Read more

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The Innocence of Father Brown.

The Blue Cross.

The Secret Garden.

The Queer Feet.

The Flying Stars.

The Invisible Man.

The Honour of Israel Gow.

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NOTE: This edition has a linked "Table of Contents" and has been beautifully formatted (searchable and interlinked) to work on your Amazon e-book reader or iPod e-book reader.

A collection of eight detective stories from acclaimed English author and journalist, G.K. Chesterton.

Horne Fisher is "the man who knows too much."

Fisher is a respected member of the upper class, and he seems to know everybody and everything. He would be much happier knowing less than he does.

He is weighed down with the burden of knowing “the seamy side of things,” the stinking corruption in the high places of wealth and power. He drags himself languidly from one amazing, appalling event to another, pulling corpses out of cars and wells and summing up the situation with a cool disdain.

But he can never report the crimes he solves because governments may fall, reputations may be ruined, aristocrats may squirm.

We can get the truth out of Horne Fisher, but not justice. It's because he has a problem: he is himself a complicit member in the criminal governing class!

These are well-written, thrilling mysteries. A must-have for classic mystery fiction fans! ... Read more

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Volume XV of The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton is Chesterton on Dickens. The reader of this volume will not only learn about CharlesDickens and other Victorian writers, but also about the fascinatingmental universe in which Dickens wrote his literary masterpieces. Author: G. K. Chesterton Contents: Critical Study of Charles Dickens, Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens,Chesterton s article in The Encyclopaedia Brittanica on CharlesDickens, and a speech Chesterton gave at a Dickens Commemoration Dinnerentitled The Immortal Memory of Charles Dickens Format: 515 pages, paperback Publisher: Ignatius Press ISBN: 9780898702583 ... Read more

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Pickwick Would be Delighted
Few critics of Dickens wrote with more sympathy, perspicuity, and literary grace than G. K. Chesterton. The essays collected here--practically everything GKC ever wrote on Dickens--offer the double pleasure of renewing acquaintance with an author now more admired than read and with the incomparable though less generally known Chesterton. Be warned that the latter's is an apologetic reading, intended to defend Dickens against his detractors in the early twentieth century. Nevertheless, GKC's views are never uncritical: When his thinks Dickens misses his own best mark, he declares that and gives his reasons for it. That best mark, for this critic, was "Pickwick," which, though Chesterton finds flawed, is assessed with love that flows from the pages. The blemishes that criticism then and now call Dickens to account--for instance, his novels' outsized characters--GKC typically turns inside-out, inviting the reader to consider them as his subject's triumphs. Even if you do not hold Dickens in the same affection as did Chesterton, this book repays careful attention in a day when much literary criticism is mesmerized by theory. Chesterton demonstrates that a lover of literature can generate some of the finest criticism. And it is a perennial pleasure to romp with GKC, a brilliant thinker and stylist, who disagrees with many but abuses none.

You want this book!:-)
If you love Dickens and Chesterton, you want this book.It's just that simple.Chesterton's insights and analyses may strike you as quirky at the beginning, but there is plenty in here to stimulate a LOT of long-term thought.

Just as one question of many: do we really want literature with realistic characters that change with time, or do people hanker after a "mythology" in which giant, unforgettable characters never change?

If the answer to the question above is the first choice, then just how do we explain Dickens' enormous popularity, which staggered observers even in his own time?When "real life" was just something to pass time while waiting for the next installment of "Pickwick?"

Dickens's finest interpreter until after World War II
Written in 1906 and 1911 and bound as this affordable paperback, Chesterton's two volumes of Dickens criticism remain superb, and have seldom been bettered by the academic industry's vast output. Although Chesterton's addiction to paradox can challenge or annoy readers unfamiliar with his style, a brief immersion dispels the difficulty, and further reading yields a mine of insights into Dickens as man and writer unsurpassed even by the publication of J. Hillis Miller's pathbreaking book of 1958. And: whereas Miller enjoyed not only the advantages of time and distance but also his rigorous training in academic criticism and scholarship, Chesterton wrote "simply" as one of those invaluable late Victorian and Edwardian "men of letters." In addition, he took on Dickens during the first fifty years after his death in 1870, when criticizing "The Inimitable" meant jousting with a National Institution. Writing as what we would call an "amateur," Chesterton perceptively celebrates Dickens's virtues with a love unblinded by a shrewd awareness of Dickens's faults. Some readers may find Chesterton's orthodox Catholic world view annoying, particularly when it obtrudes itself occasionallyinto his prose. But as a "simple," lifelong "Bible" Christian, Dickens would almost certainly have considered a relgious point of departure a matter of course -- although he would also almost certainly have deplored Chesterton's occasional narrowness. Those who bear with him for a single chapter will almost certainly be seduced by his penetrating and thought-provoking analyses; amateur and professional Dickensians alike should find this volume a perfect introduction to a deeper understanding of the novels and the man.

You can never go wrong with Chesterton
You can never go wrong with Chesterton. Chesterton can help you think, even if you're not good at it. ... Read more

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"Gilbert Keith Chesterton has been the subject of several biographies, but none as comprehensive as The Outline of Sanity, a life of G. K. Chesterton by Alzina Stone Dale."
--THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

"A biography in which the imaginative and intellectual stature of the man is seen in its full measure."
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The Best Introduction to Chesterton
This really is, in my opinion, the best introduction to the thought and life of G.K. Chesterton. I have read a couple other biographies that came nowhere near the level of understanding Alzina Stone Dale brings to this work.

While it is commonly accepted that Chesterton was a literary genius, he has not fared well with the current arbiters of taste. Usually, biographers treat Chesterton as a Quixotic figure, essentially a deeply conservative man born out of his time, or they focus on the dark parts of the man, his supposed anti-Semtism, his excesses in food and drink, etc. Stone Dale has an objective tone that grasps the complexities of the man, while showing a strong compassion for her subject. She writes well about his politics, aesthetics and religion, with a real feel for his cultural time and place. Chesterton was a paradoxical man and that's what makes him so interesting. I think his politics will be seen as very forward-thinking someday and will probably be studied by those looking for a third way out of the capitalism vs. socialism mess we are in at the time I write this.

His faith was foundational in his life, and Stone Dale treats it withsophistication, without bringing in her own bias (as some writers do). She gives you real sense of the energy of Edwardian London and the business of journalism at the time. I can't recommend the book enough for those interested in Chesterton's thought. ... Read more

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In this collection of articles written before, during, and just after World War I, G. K. Chesterton described what had gone wrong with Germany and warns that, if the nation is not forced to change, this war will followed by another and still more horrible war. He criticizes internationalists, pacifists and militarists and wants peace maintained by an anti-German alliance similar to NATO. He harshly criticizes Teutonism, a then-fashionable form of racism that would mutate into Nazism, making him one of Hitler's first foes. Appendices have articles on war by Thomas Aquinas, Winston Churchill, Norman Angell, Bernard Shaw, Bertrand Russell, Mahatma Gandhi, and H. G. Wells. ... Read more

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On Thursday...
For a book that's as short as this one, "The Man Who Was Thursday" is pretty packed.

G.K. Chesterton's classic novella tackles anarchy, social order, God, peace, war, religion, human nature, and a few dozen other weight concepts. And somehow he manages to mash it all together into a delightful satire, full of tongue-in-cheek commentary that is still relevant today.

As the book opens, Gabriel Symes is debating with a soapbox anarchist. The two men impress each other enough that the anarchist introduces Symes to a seven-man council of anarchists, all named after days of the week. In short order, they elect Symes their newest member -- Thursday.

But they don't know that he's also been recruited by an anti-anarchy organization. And soon Symes finds out that he's not the only person on the council who is not what he seems. There are other spies and double-agents, working for the same cause. But who -- and what -- is the jovial, powerful Mr. Sunday, the head of the organization?

Hot air balloons, elaborate disguises, duels and police chases -- Chesterton certainly knew how to keep this novel interesting. Though written almost a century ago, "The Man Who Was Thursday" still feels very fresh. That's partly because of Chesterton's cheery writing... and partly because it's such an intelligent book.

He doesn't avoid some timeless topics that make some people squirm. Humanity (good and bad), anarchy, religion and its place in human nature, and creation versus destruction all get tackled here -- disguised as a comic police investigation. And unlike most satires, it isn't dated; the topics are reflections of humanity and religion, so they're as relevant now as they were in 1908.

But the story isn't pedantic or boring; Chesterton keeps things lively by having his characters act like real people, rather than mouthpieces. From Symes to the Colonel to the mysterious Sunday himself, they all have a sort of friendly, energetic quality. "We're all spies! Come and have a drink!" one of the characters announces cheerfully near the end.

And of course, once the madcap police investigations are finished, there's still a mystery. Who is Sunday? What are his goals? And for that matter, WHAT is Sunday -- genius, force of nature, villain or god? The answer is a bit of a surprise, and as a reflection of Chesterton's beliefs, it's a delicate, intelligent piece of work.

And what of Martin Gardner's annotations? Well, they vary in usefulness -- sometimes he adds to your understanding of Chesterton's interests and possible intentions, and sometimes he goes off in rambling tangents that choke the original text.

"The Man Who Was Thursday" is a wacky, literate little satire that will both amuse and educate you. Not bad for a book often subtitled "A Nightmare."

Quirky, But Well Done
I feel a little deflated after completing "The Man Who Was Thursday."I would like to be able to imagine what it would have been like to read this book when it was first printed, before having Gardner & Chesterton explain the meaning of the "Sunday" character.Not that I would have figured it out on my own...

If you haven't read TMWWT before, I suggest you skip over Gardner's introduction and dive right in.Then go back and read Gardner's introduction and afterword to see if you've caught Chesterton's meaning.Granted, the text of the book doesn't go to any lengths to make its allusions unmistakable.Without Gardner and Chesterton's explanations, I believe you could take Sunday about any way you liked, somewhat like the Old Monk Michael in "The Ball and the Cross".

While the foreword and afterword are thorough and interesting, Gardner's annotations through the text are a bit of a mixed bag.Sometimes he rambles on over two pages of footnotes, bringing in ancillary details about London notables who lived near the setting of the action.Other times he waxes eloquent about scientific principles tangentially related to Chesterton's story.While many of his footnotes are exceedingly helpful, others are just weird.It appears, for example, that Gardner is a big Sherlock Holmes fan, given the relatively large presence that Holmes has in the footnotes.

Anyway - a great book with a worthy annotation.

an overlooked classic
The obvious (and probably most common) comparison is to Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Agent."Both explore anarchy and revolution and have at their centers double agents.In many ways, though, the two works don't compare.Conrad's work is much darker; his London is infinitely bleaker and grosser than Chesterton's.Indeed, Conrad spends much more time describing his settings and creating the dark mood.Moreover, Conrad is more concerned than Chesterton with the psychological motivations underlying anarchy.These are not at all shortcomings in Chesterton's brilliant work; the two writers, each excellent in their own ways, simply focused on different things and had different goals and lessons to teach.

On its surface, "The Man Who Was Thursday" is the tale of a detective who infiltrates the inner circle of a group of anarchists and assumes a position on its board, whose seven members all bear names of days of the week.Syme, the detective, is Thursday; the mysterious, enigmatic leader is Sunday.Much of the fun of this book is in the twists and turns, so I won't give anything away.Some of the surprises (or revelation) are predictable, but many are not, and one typically builds on all the rest--keeping even the most predictable of them fresh and intriguing.At a deeper level, Chesterton explores the nature of good and evil, of fate and free will, of order and chaos, and also of faith.Indeed, Chesterton's vision of Christianity penetrates his work, sometimes explicitly (particularly the concluding chapters) and often implicitly and more symbolically.It underlies much of the book.

"Thursday" is a difficult book to understand, and the allegory is not easy to see or decipher.This is certainly a book that deserves many re-readings.On this note, Martin Gardner's introduction and notes provide a great framework for beginning to penetrate the book's deeper meanings.Moreover, his descriptions of the relevant geography and landmarks of London prove both helpful and fascinating.

This is a true masterpiece, unfortunately overlooked by far too many who have never heard of Chesterton or who don't know he wrote excellent fiction in addition to his fine Christian apologetics.Anyone stands to profit from reading "The Man Who Was Thursday."And this edition only enhances the experience.

Great Book; Good Annotation
If you have never read this book, DO IT NOW! And buy this copy. For just a little more than the paperback, you get Gardner's notes which help to shed some light on the neighborhoods of London and Chesterton's story. I was not familiar with the layout of London and his annotations gave some interesting facts and tidbits. Also, this is a hard text to tackle and Gardner's thoughts help introduce new ways to understand Chesterton's work.

a thinkers thriller
Definition is impossible : The Man Who was Thursday is not quite a political bad dream, nor a metaphysical thriller, nor a cosmic joke in the form of a spy novel, but it is something of all three. What it has most of is a boys' adventure story, which might help to explain my early excitement but not so much my continuing devotion.And what a title!I will not divulge its meaning here, but I cannot resist saying that anybody who at the sight of it does not feel a faint tingle of excitement and a breath of wonder is not really a fit person to be reading the book. -Kingsley Amis, Introduction to the Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics version

G. K. Chesterton's classic novel manages to provide a thriller that starts out like a Sherlock Holmesadventure and ends like Raiders of the Lost Ark, while at the same time offering a profoundcontemplation of the existence of evil in the world, the role of free will in the universe, the willingnessof God to allow Man to suffer, and various other vexing metaphysical questions.Both the basic storyand the religious philosophy are exciting, and though generations of readers have complained that thefinal chapter is too difficult to follow, the Annotated version has explanatory essays by Martin Gardnerand there's an excellent essay of his available online, which do a great job of explaining just whatChesterton is up to.It is very much a Christian fantasy (or "Nightmare" to use Chesterton's ownsubtitle) but can be read with enjoyment by anyone who loves a good adventure yarn and doesn't mindbeing made to think.

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Criticisms and Appreciations
INTRODUCTION
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 recent times.
Thus they were harmless, being diluted by, or rather
drov,'11ed jn Dickens. 1-1y scrap of theory ,~:as a mere
dry biscuit to be takcn with the grand tawny port of
great English comedy; and by most people it was not
taken at all-like the biscuit. Nevertheless the essays
were not in intention so aimless as they appear in fact.
I had a general notion of what needed saying about
Dickens to the new generation, though probably I did
not say it. I 1;vill make another attempt to do so in this
prologue. and. possibly fail again.
There was a painful Inoment (somewhere about the
eighties) when we watched anxiously to see vhcther
Dickens was fading from the modern world. 'vVe have
'latched a little longer, and with great rel

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; CHAPTER PAGE; I INTRODUCTION; ? Vll; II SKETCHES BY Boz ? ? 1; III PICKWICK PAPERS 13; IV NICHOLAS NICKLEBY 26; V OLIVER TwIST 38; VI OLD CURIOSITY SHOP 50; VII BARNABY RUDGE 6S; VIII AMERICAN NOTES 76; IX PICTURES FROM ITALY 87; X MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT 90; XI CHRISTMAS BOOKS 103; XII DOMBEY AND SON 114; XIII DA VID COPPERFIELD 129; XIV CHRISTMAS STORIES 140; XV BLEAK HOUSE 148; XVI CHILD'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND 160; iii; I?V Contents; CHAPTER PAGE; XVII HARD TIMES 169; XVIII LITTLE DORRIT 178; XIX A TALE OF Two CITIES 188; XX GREAT EXPECTATIONS 197; XXI OUR MUTUAL FRIEND 207; XXII EDWIN DROOD 218; XXIII MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK 229; XXIV REPRINTED ... Read more

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Chesterton on Dickens
Wow!G.K. Chesterton has unbelievable insight into what makes humans tick.He does a great job discussing Dickens as a man and author, as well as Dicken's works.If you're a Dickens fan, this is well worth reading.

Chesterton's introductioncut from this edition
Chesterton is indeed at his best writing about Dickens.Before you buy this edition, be forewarned that the editors have cut almost 20pp. from Chesterton's introduction, leaving a mere 2pp.

Chesterton on Dickens
Chesterton is at his best in his criticism, and this is no exception.His novels show something o the Dickensian flare, but nowhere is he more apreciative of the master than here. ... Read more