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G. K. Chesterton

Chapter II The Luggage of an Optimist We all remember the fairy tales of science in our infancy, which played with the supposition that large animals could jump in the proportion of small ones.  ... Read more

Biography EssayBest known for his Father Brown detective stories, and most admired as a thinker for his fulllength books, of which he wrote almost fifty, G. K. Chesterton is numbered among the great e... Read more

"G. K. Chesterton," declared William B. Furlong in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, "was a legend in London literary circles even during his lifetime. George Bernard Shaw called him 'a man of col... Read more

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a poet who is also remembered as an essayist, a novelist and short-story writer, a literary critic, a playwright, and a religious controversialist. As the author of more t... Read more

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, journalist, essayist, master ideologue of religion and politics, and a seminal figure in the development of the modern detective story, was born on 29 May 1874 in Campden Hil... Read more

G. K. Chesterton, one of the most versatile men of letters of his generation--he distinguished himself, to a greater or lesser degree, as essayist, poet, novelist, playwright, detective story writer, ... Read more