Alarms and Discursions All Things Considered The Appetite of Tyranny Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens The Ballad of the White Horse The Ball and The Cross The Barbarism of Berlin The Club of Queer Trades The Crimes of England The Defendant Eugenics and Other Evils George Bernard Shaw Heretics The Innocence of Father Brown Lord Kitchener Magic, A Fantastic Comedy Manalive The Man Who Knew Too Much The Man Who Was Thursday A Miscellany of Men The Napoleon of Notting Hill The New Jerusalem Orthodoxy Robert Browning A Short History of England The Trees of Pride Tremendous Trifles Twelve Types Utopia of Usurers and other Essays Varied Types The Victorian Age in Literature What I Saw in America What's Wrong With The World The Wild Knight and Other Poems The Wisdom of Father Brown
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was one of the most influential English writers of the 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy and detective fiction.
Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox". Time magazine, in a review of a biography of Chesterton, observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out.
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