The complete online text of The Defendant 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...

Drug money has largely transformed the New York's wire transfer industry into a tool of the narcotics trade, federal prosecutors said Wednesday as they charged 27 wire transfer store owners and employees with money laundering.The 27 people were arrested early Wednesday in a series of...

Prosecutors trying to get a group of environmental activists declared terrorists for burning animal research, logging and other businesses outraged the defense in court by comparing the defendants to Klansmen."I cannot sit idly by and hear what these defendants did compared to acts of the...