The complete online text of The Crimes of England 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...

Byline: MATTHEW HICKLEY THE risk of becoming a victim of crime is higher in England and Wales than anywhere in Europe, the U.S. or Japan. A Home Office study revealed yesterday that the English and Welsh have a 26 per cent...

Since 1981, crime rates for most major offenses have become much higher in England than in the United States, while the risk of being punished has become much greater here, according to the Justice Department. A department study released this week says that...