The complete online text of Robert Browning by G. K. Chesterton.

The English author, journalist, and artist Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) dedicated his extraordinary intellect and creative power to the reform of English government and society. In 1922 he converted to Roman Catholicism and became its champion. O...

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a prolific writer who wrote in such a variety of genres that he resists simple classification. Previous Dictionary of Literary Biography volumes have examined Chesterton as a poet, a dramatist, a traditional novelist, a myste...

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 Hill, in the Kensington neighborhood of London. Chesterto...

Authorities say they have been unable to verify a prison inmate's claims that he killed as many as 49 people in more than a half-dozen states, but they still think there's some truth in his accounts.Robert Browne, 53, who is serving consecutive life terms for...

The sharp declines this month in many stock markets worldwide proves that not all that happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.That city is among those areas of the United States hard hit by a slumping housing market. Combine that with a strong global appetite in...

Soldiers involved in British nuclear bomb tests in the South Pacific demanded new medical research Tuesday into the effects of the radiation releases — 50 years after the blinding white flashes lit up a remote atoll.Servicemen suspect the high rates of skin cancer and health...

Soldiers involved in British nuclear bomb tests in the South Pacific demanded new medical research Tuesday into the effects of the radiation releases — 50 years after the blinding white flashes lit a remote pacific atoll.Servicemen who took part claim that the high rates of...