Gilbert Keith Chesterton KC*SG was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the "prince of paradox".
40 Complete Works of G. K. Chesterton
A Miscellany of Men
A Short History of England
Alarms and Discursions
All Things Considered
Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens
Eugenics and Other Evils
George Bernard Shaw
Greybeards at Play
Heretics
Lord Kitchener
Magic
Manalive
Orthodoxy
Poems
Robert Browning
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Appetite of Tyranny
The Ball and The Cross
The Ballad of St. Barbara
The Ballad of the White Horse
The Barbarism of Berlin
The Club of Queer Trades
The Crimes of England
The Defendant
The Innocence of Father Brown
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Man Who Was Thursday
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
The New Jerusalem
The Trees of Pride
The Victorian Age in Literature
The Wild Knight and Other Poems
Tremendous Trifles
Twelve Types
Utopia of Usurers
Varied Types
What I Saw in America
What's Wrong With The World
Wine Water and Song
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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