The complete online text of Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays 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...

UTOPIA AND OTHER PLACES. By Richard Eyre. Blooomsbury; 206 pages; Pounds16.99 and $24 ONE of the more abiding human mysteries is why the English--a proverbially tight-lipped and stiff-necked race--should have excelled in the louche world of the theatre for upwards of half...

CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHERS denigrate utopianism in a variety of ways, from misguided charges of naive idealism to more daunting critiques of foundationalism. This denigration has affected an indifferent and, at times, defiant disposition toward utopianism as a useful and productive endeavor....