Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) cannot be summed up in one sentence. Nor in one paragraph. In fact, in spite of the fine biographies that have been written of him, (and his Autobiography) he has never been captured between the covers of one book. But rather than waiting to separate the goats from the sheep, let’s just come right out and say it: G.K. Chesterton was the best writer of the twentieth century. He said something about everything and he said it better than anybody else. But he was no mere wordsmith. He was very good at expressing himself, but more importantly, he had something very good to express. The reason he was the greatest writer of the twentieth century was because he was also the greatest thinker of the twentieth century.
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Essays
93 editions - first published in 1901 Read -
Orthodoxy
80 editions - first published in 1908 Read -
Poems
79 editions - first published in 1891 Read -
The Man Who Was Thursday: a Nightmare
77 editions - first published in 1908 Read -
Heretics
57 editions - first published in 1905 Read -
The Wisdom of Father Brown
52 editions - first published in 1913 Read -
The Innocence of Father Brown
51 editions - first published in 1911 Read -
The Club of Queer Trades
50 editions - first published in 1905 Read -
What's wrong with the world
42 editions - first published in 1910 Read -
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
39 editions - first published in 1904 Read -
George Bernard Shaw
38 editions - first published in 1909 Read -
Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton
36 editions - first published in 1986 Borrow -
The everlasting man
35 editions - first published in 1925 -
Manalive
34 editions - first published in 1912 Read -
Father Brown: selected stories
31 editions - first published in 1937 Borrow -
Tremendous trifles
30 editions - first published in 1909 Read -
St. Francis of Assisi
29 editions - first published in 1923 Read -
The Father Brown stories
27 editions - first published in 1931 Borrow -
The New Jerusalem
26 editions - first published in 1900 Read -
The ball and the cross
26 editions - first published in 1909 Read -
The Man Who Knew Too Much
25 editions - first published in 1922 Read -
The scandal of Father Brown
23 editions - first published in 1935 -
The ballad of the white horse
23 editions - first published in 1911 Read -
Alarms and discursions
23 editions - first published in 1910 Read -
Robert Browning
22 editions - first published in 1903 Read -
The secret of Father Brown
22 editions - first published in 1927 -
Charles Dickens
21 editions - first published in 1903 Read -
The Victorian age in literature
21 editions - first published in 1913 Read -
Varied Types
19 editions - first published in 1903 Read -
Twelve types
19 editions - first published in 1902 Read -
The incredulity of Father Brown
19 editions - first published in 1920 Borrow -
The Flying Inn
19 editions - first published in 1914 Read -
St. Thomas Aquinas
18 editions - first published in 1933 -
Tales of the long bow
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The Catholic Church and conversion
17 editions - first published in 1926 -
G.F. Watts
17 editions - first published in 1904 Read -
The return of Don Quixote
17 editions - first published in 1927 -
The Crimes of England
17 editions - first published in 1915 Read -
A Short History of England
15 editions - first published in 1917 Read -
Stories, essays, & poems
15 editions - first published in 1935 -
Wine, water and song
15 editions - first published in 1915 Read -
Four faultless felons
14 editions - first published in 1930 -
Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays
14 editions - first published in 1917 Read -
Eugenics and other evils: an argument against the scientifically organized state
13 editions - first published in 1922 Read -
What I saw in America
13 editions - first published in 1922 Read -
The poet and the lunatics: episodes in the life of Gabriel Gale.
12 editions - first published in 1929 -
The uses of diversity: a book of essays
11 editions - first published in 1920 Read -
Magic: a fantastic comedy
11 editions - first published in 1913 Read -
The thing
11 editions - first published in 1929 -
William Blake
11 editions - first published in 1910 Read -
The autobiography of G. K. Chesterton
10 editions - first published in 1936 -
Chaucer
10 editions - first published in 1932 -
Appreciations and criticisms of the works of Charles Dickens
10 editions - first published in 1911 Read -
The Trees of Pride
9 editions - first published in 2004 Borrow -
William Cobbett
9 editions - first published in 1900 Read -
Thomas Carlyle
9 editions - first published in 1902 Read -
The appetite of tyranny: including Letters to an old Garibaldian.
8 editions - first published in 1915 Read -
Saint Francis of Assisi
8 editions - first published in 1979 Borrow -
Do we agree?: A debate between G. K. Chesterton and Bernard Shaw, with Hilaire Belloc in the chair.
8 editions - first published in 1928 -
Thackeray
8 editions - first published in 1903 Read -
The superstition of divorce
8 editions - first published in 1920 Read -
As I was saying: a book of essays
8 editions - first published in 1936 Borrow -
The Father Brown omnibus
8 editions - first published in 1933 -
The outline of sanity
8 editions - first published in 1926 -
Tennyson
8 editions - first published in 1903 Read -
The man who was Chesterton: the best essays, stories, poems and other writings of G.K. Chesterton
7 editions - first published in 1937 -
Fancies versus fads
7 editions - first published in 1923 Read -
Irish impressions
7 editions - first published in 1919 Read -
All is grist: a book of essays
7 editions - first published in 1931 -
Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox
7 editions - first published in 1938 -
Robert Louis Stevenson
6 editions - first published in 1902 Read -
The wild knight
6 editions - first published in 1914 Read -
San Francisco de Asis: El Hombre Eterno
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Greybeards at play: literature and art for old gentlemen
6 editions - first published in 1900 Read -
Come to think of it: a book of essays.
6 editions - first published in 1930 -
G.K.C. as M.C: being a collection ofthirty-seven introductions.
6 editions - first published in 1929 -
The Bodley Head G.K. Chesterton: selected and with an introduction by P.J. Kavanagh.
6 editions - first published in 1985 -
The barbarism of Berlin
6 editions - first published in 1914 Read -
Criticisms & appreciations of the works of Charles Dickens
6 editions - first published in 1933 -
The Man Who Was Thursday, A Nightmare
6 editions - first published in 1908 Read -
The queen of seven swords
5 editions - first published in 1926 -
Charles Dickens: A Critical Study
5 editions - first published in 1906 Read -
Sidelights on new London and newer York: and other essays
5 editions - first published in 1932 Borrow -
The resurrection of Rome
5 editions - first published in 1930 -
The surprise: [a play]
5 editions - first published in 1932 -
Autobiography
5 editions - first published in 1936 -
A Chesterton calendar: compiled from the writings of̀ G. K. C.' : both in verse and prose : with a section apart for the moveable feasts.
5 editions - first published in 1911 Read -
All I survey: a book of essays
5 editions - first published in 1933 -
The well and the shallows
5 editions - first published in 1935 -
The spice of life: and other essays.
5 editions - first published in 1964 -
The Wild Knight And Other Poems
5 editions - first published in 1900 -
A shilling for my thoughts
4 editions - first published in 1916 Read -
Chesterton day by day: selections from the writings in prose and verse of G. K. Chesterton, with an extract for every day of the year and for each of the moveable feasts.
4 editions - first published in 1912 Read -
The coloured lands: fairy stories, comic verse and fantastic pictures
4 editions - first published in 1938 -
The sword of wood: a story
4 editions - first published in 1928 -
The defendant
4 editions - first published in 1901 -
Daylight and nightmare: uncollected stories and fables
4 editions - first published in 1986 -
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4 editions - first published in 2007 -
Basic Chesterton: Orthodoxy, The everlasting man, St. Francis of Assisi, The man who was Thursday
4 editions - first published in 1984 -
Magic (A Fantastic Comedy)
4 editions - first published in 1913 Read
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