G. K. Chesterton

Essays, fiction, and the Father Brown mysteries — Chesterton’s vast, joyful, paradoxical output, always arguing, always delighted.

The prince of paradox

In this collection

• The Evolution of Slaves
• Woman
• The Pseudo-Scientific Books
• The White Horses
• Simmons and the Social Tie
• The Secret of a Train
• The Wild Knight and other Poems: the Pessimist
• The Wild Knight and other Poems: a Christmas Carol
• A Defence of Dramatic Unities
• Bay Combe
• The Appetite of Earth
• The Little Birds who won't Sing
• The Mediæval Villain
• The Victorian Age in Literature
• The Wild Knight and other Poems: the Lamp Post
• The Boy
• The Case for the Ephemeral
• A Short History of England
• Tennyson
• The Wild Knight and other Poems: Eternities
• The Wild Knight and other Poems: the Earth's Shame
• How Mad Laws are Made
• The War on Holidays
• The Red Angel
• The Road to Roundabout
• The Wife of Flanders
• The Anarchist
• The Worship of the Wealthy
• The March on Ivywood
• The Wild Knight and other Poems: at Night
• The Song of the Oak
• The Hospitality of the Captain
• The Wild Knight and other Poems: the Praise of Dust
• A Song of Gifts to God
• The Wild Knight and other Poems: Vanity
• The Finding of the Superman
• The Symbolism of Krupp
• Much too Modern History
• The Poet in Parliament
• The German Emperor

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