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Translations
Italian translation by Gracy Laura.
Brazilian - Portuguese translation of this page provided by Gary Cave.
Contents
Non-Fiction Books
- Heretics (1905)
-- text (374K)
-- zipfile (139K)
-- html (420K)
There is also a
Macedonian
translation of Chapter Three by
Web Geek Science,
and a
Czech
translation of Chapter One by Andrey Fomin.
- Orthodoxy (1909)
-- text (367K)
-- zipfile (139K)
-- html (372K)
-- LibriVox version 1
-- LibriVox version 2
-- Speech synthesizer reading
from www.freechristianaudiobooks.com
-- Italian Wikipedia page
- What's Wrong With the World (1910)
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-- html (Project Gutenberg) (375K)
-- text (344K)
-- zipfile (132K)
-- LibriVox
- The Everlasting Man (1925)
-- html (600K)
-- text (600K)
-- zipfile (220K)
-- PDF (1,013K)
-- Free audiobook recording on archive.org
(C.S.Lewis listed The Everlasting Man
among the 10 books which did most to shape his
philosphy of life).
- St. Thomas Aquinas (1933)
-- html (295K)
-- text (295K)
-- zipfile (109K)
- Do We Agree? A debate between G. K. Chesterton
and Bernard Shaw (1928)
-- text (47K)
-- zipfile (18K)
- The Catholic Church and Conversion (1926)
-- text (137K)
-- zipfile (51K)
- Charles Dickens, Part I (1906)
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-- text (195K)
-- zipfile (75K)
-- Project Gutenberg Version (in one volume)
-- LibriVox
- Charles Dickens, Part II (1906)
-- html (189K)
-- text (185K)
-- zipfile (70K)
- Appreciations and Criticisms
of the Works of Charles Dickens, Part I (1911)
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-- text (240K)
-- zipfile (90K)
-- LibriVox
- Appreciations and Criticisms
of the Works of Charles Dickens, Part II (1911)
-- html (187K)
-- text (184K)
-- zipfile (68K)
- Appreciations and Criticisms
of the Works of Charles Dickens (1911). Project Gutenberg edition.
-- html (187K)
-- text (184K)
-- zipfile (68K)
- The Superstition of Divorce (1920)
-- text (135K)
-- zipfile (51K)
- A Miscellany of Men (1912)
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-- text (293K)
-- zipfile (116K)
- Utopia of Usurers and other Essays (1917)
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-- text (206K)
-- zipfile (80K)
- A Short History of England (1917)
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-- zipfile (132K)
- Eugenics and other Evils (1922)
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-- text (264K)
-- zipfile (102K)
- The Well and the Shallows (1935)
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-- text (401K)
-- zipfile (154K)
- The Thing (1929)
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-- text (426K)
-- zipfile (161K)
- Alarms And Discursions (1911)
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-- text (287K)
-- zipfile (116K)
-- LibriVox
- All Things Considered (1908)
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-- text (352K)
-- zipfile (132K)
-- LibriVox
- The New Jerusalem (1920)
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-- text (505K)
-- zipfile (190K)
- The Common Man (1950)
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-- text (494K)
-- zipfile (189K)
- The Outline of Sanity (1927)
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-- zipfile (127K)
- Tremendous Trifles (1909)
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-- text (300K)
-- zip (119K)
- The Spice of Life and Other Essays (1964)
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-- text (288K)
-- zipfile (112K)
- The Defendant (1901)
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-- text (174K)
-- zipfile (69K)
- Robert Browning (1903)
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-- text (369K)
-- zipfile (142K)
- Autobiography (1936)
-- html (643K)
-- text (634K)
-- zipfile (247K)
-- pdf (1,006K)
- St Francis (1923)
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-- text (243K)
-- zipfile (91K)
- The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)
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-- text (267K)
-- zipfile (105K)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1927)
-- text (239K)
-- zip (93K)
- George Bernard Shaw (1910)
Updated with the chapter "The Later Phases" from the 1935 edition.
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-- text (334K)
-- zip (129K)
- The Apostle and the Wild Ducks (collected 1975)
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-- zip (128K)
- The Crimes of England (1916)
-- text (200K)
-- zip (78K)
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- The Appetite of Tyranny, Including Letters to
an Old Garibaldian (1915)
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-- zip (48K)
-- LibriVox
- Varied Types (1905)
-- text (247K)
-- zip (95K)
- William Cobbett (1925)
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-- zip (99K)
-- pdf (630K)
- All I Survey (1933)
-- text (349K)
-- zip (134K)
- Fancies Versis Fads (1923)
-- text (368K)
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- Twelve Types (1903)
-- text (174K)
-- zip (67K)
- Irish Impressions (1919)
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-- text (225K)
-- zip (86K)
- As I Was Saying (1936)
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- Lord Kitchener (1917)
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- What I Saw In America (1922)
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- Come to Think of it (1930)
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- All is Grist (1931)
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- The Glass Walking Stick
and other essays, from the Illustrated London news, 1905--1936 (1955)
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- Varied Types
An extension of the book Twelve Types which adds eight more chapters
reprinted, with certain alterations and additions, from The Daily News and The Speaker.
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-- zip (87K)
- The Uses of Diversity (1920)
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-- zip (109K)
- Generally Speaking (1928)
-- pdf (279K)
- A collection of articles published in The Speaker
1900--1905
-- text (210K)
-- zip (83K)
- Articles for The Speaker (1892-1905),
compiled by Mike Miles.
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-- txt (719K)
-- zip (279K)
- The Superstitions of the Sceptic (1925),
a lecture delivered to the I.D.K. Club, together with a correspondence between the author and Mr. Coulton.
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-- zip (28K)
- Sidelights on New London and Newer York (1932).
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- A Handful of Authors
Essays on books and writers, edited by Dorothy Collins (1953).
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-- zip (146K)
- Chaucer (1932).
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-- zip (193K)
-- html with illustrations
at Project Gutenberg Australia
- G.K.C. as M.C. (1967) A a collection of thirty-seven
introductions by G. K. Chesterton. Selected and edited by J. P. de Fonseka.
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-- ody (169K)
-- pdf (424K)
-- txt (363K)
-- zip (141K)
- Avowals and Denials (1934) A book of essays
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-- zip (111K)
- Lunacy and Letters (1958) A book of essays edited
by Dorothy Collins
-- pdf (9,541K)
-- txt (276K)
-- zip (108K)
- William Blake (1910) from
Project Gutenberg
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-- zip (75K)
- Thomas Carlyle (1902) from
Project Gutenberg
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-- zip (32K)
Fiction
Essays
- The Case for the Ephemeral
(From All Things Considered (1908))
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- Cockneys and their Jokes
(From All Things Considered (1909))
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- On American Morals
(From Generally Speaking, pp 222-229, Dodd, Mead (1929))
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- The God in the Cave
(From The Everlasting Man (1925))
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-- html (11K)
- The Extraordinary Cabman
(From London's Daily News and Tremendous Trifles (1909))
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-- html (9K)
- On Turnpikes and Medievalism
(From All I Survey (1933))
-- text (8K)
-- html (8K)
- A Defence of Rash Vows
(An abridged version of a chapter in Chesterton's book The Defendant (1901))
-- text (9K)
-- html (9K)
-- mp3 (3.7MB) read by
Chris Lansdown
- Child Psychology and Nonsense
(This essay first appeared in the Illustrated London News
on October 15, 1921)
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- Philosophy for the Schoolroom
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- The Pun
(From The Daily News, 1911, reprinted in Lunacy and Letters 1958)
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- Government and the Rights of Man
(Illustrated London News, July 30, 1921)
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- Concerning a Strange City
(From The Common Man (1950), originally in The New Witness
25th November, 1925)
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- Negative and Positive Morality
(From the Illustrated London News January 3, 1920)
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- Logic and Lawn Tennis
(An essay reprinted in The Thing (1929))
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- Democracy and Industrialism
(From All I Survey (1933). The original essay appeared as a column
in the Illustrated London News, July 16th 1932)
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- Christmas and the First Games
(From The Coloured Lands (1938))
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- The Ideal of a Leisure State
(From the Illustrated London News March 21, 1925)
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- The Equality of Sexlessness
(From GK's Weekly, July 26, 1930)
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- On Mending and Ending Things
(From the Illustrated London News, December 23, 1905)
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- The Fallacy of Success
(Excerpted from All Things considered (1909))
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-- html (13K)
- Cheese
(Published in Alarms and Discursions (1910)(
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There is a Russian
translation by Karina Sheludenko from Everycloudtech
(Alternate Link)
- A Piece of Chalk
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- The Great Shipwreck as Analogy
(From the Illustrated London News May 11, 1912)
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- The Runaway Abbot
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- Asparagus, New Witness 18th June 1914
-- text (6K)
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- Dickens (Encyclopaedia Britannica
article by G.K.C)
-- text (50K)
-- zip (20K)
- Leo Tolstoy (1903)
by G.K. Chesterton, G.H. Perris and Edward Garnett
-- text (37K)
-- html (37K)
-- Project Gutenberg html (108K)
-- Project Gutenberg text (83K)
-- Project Gutenberg zip (83K)
- Introduction to the Book of Job
-- text (21K)
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- The Diabolist
(From Tremendous Trifles (1909))
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- Dogs (1911)
(From a Daily News article, later excerpted in Lunacy and Letters (1958))
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- On Gargoyles
(From Alarms and Discursions (1910))
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- A Defence of Penny Dreadfuls
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-- Russian translation (or so I am told!)
- The Methuselahite
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- Skepticism and Spiritualism
(From an essay which originally appeared in the Illustrated London News,
April 14, 1906)
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- The Nightmare
(Originally appeared in the The Daily News, October 16, 1909)
-- text (8K)
-- html (8K)
- Upon This Rock
-- text (19K)
-- html (18K)
-- pdf (103K)
- What is America?
(From What I Saw in America, 1922)
-- text (19K)
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- A Somewhat Improbable Story
excert from Tremendous Trifles (1909)
-- html (11K)
-- text (10K)
- The Twelve Men
excert from Tremendous Trifles (1909)
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- French and English
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- Divorce versus Democracy
-- text (22K)
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- Social Reform versus Birth Control
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- Anti-Religious Thought
In The Eighteenth Century (1926)
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- On Lying In Bed
excert from Tremendous Trifles (1909)
-- text (7K)
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- What is Right With the World
From T. P.'s Weekly (1910), collected in The Apostle and the Wild Ducks
(1975) P. J. Kavanagh, ed
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- The Meaning of the Crusade
From The New Jerusalem (1920)
-- text (45K)
-- html (46K)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
-- text (23K)
-- html (24K)
- On Evil Euphemisms
From Come to Think of It (1930)
-- text (8K)
-- html (9K)
- Mormonism
From Uses of Diversity (1921)
-- text (8K)
-- html (8K)
- To Frances
Excerpts from a letter to Frances Blogg (updated).
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- The Angry Street
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- Christianity and Rationalism (1904)
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- The Terror of a Toy
From Fancies versus Fads (1923)
-- text (8K)
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- On Darwinism and Mystery
From The Illustrated London News 21st August, 1920.
-- text (8K)
- The Persecution of Religion
From The Illustrated London News 8th March, 1924
-- text (9K)
- The Advantages of having One Leg
From Tremendous Trifles 1909
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- Doubts About Darwinism
From The Illustrated London News 17th July 1920
-- text (9K)
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- American Fundamentalists
and the English Journalists
From The Illustrated London News 1st August 1925
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- Compulsory Education and the Monkey Trial
From The Illustrated London News 8th August 1925
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- Myths and Metaphors
From The Illustrated London News 26th January 1929
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- Women in the Workplace - and at Home
From The Illustrated London News 18th December, 1926
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- The Illustrated London News
article of 19th April, 1930
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- Our Birthday
From G. K.s Weekly, March 21, 1935. This was written on the occasion of the paper's 10th anniversary.
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- The Roots of the World
From The Daily News, 17th August, 1907.
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- Humor
From Encyclopaedia Britannica written May 1928.
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- Two Kinds of Paradox
From The Illustrated London News, 11th March 1911.
-- text (8K)
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- Return of the Angels
From Daily News, 14th March 1903.
-- text (7K)
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- A Shy Bird
From A Handful of Authors, 1927
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-- html (18K)
- Pickwick and the English Peoples
From The Empire Review, Vol XXXVIII, October 1923, No. 273. Reprinted in 1927.
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- The Polish Ideal
From The Illustrated London News, 2nd July, 1927.
-- text (8K)
- Half Hours in Hades (1891)
(Thanks to Sean B. Palmer)
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- Dreams (1901)
(Thanks to Sean B. Palmer)
-- html (8K)
- Wonder and the Wooden Post (1912)
(Thanks to Sean B. Palmer)
-- html (9K)
- On Household Gods and Goblins
(Thanks to Sean B. Palmer)
-- html (11K)
- Milton: Man and Poet
-- html (21K)
-- text (20K)
- On Jane Austen in the General Election
From Come to Think of It, 1930
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- On Abolishing Sunday
From Come to Think of It, 1930
-- html (9K)
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- On Abraham Lincoln
From Come to Think of It, 1930
-- html (16K)
-- text (15K)
- On America
From Come to Think of It, 1930
-- html (9K)
-- text (8K)
- How Not To Do It
From G.K.'s Weekly, 16th May 1935
-- html (5K)
-- text (4K)
- Humanitarianism True and False
From The Humane Review, January 1903
-- html (10K)
-- text (9K)
- An article which appeared in the Hibbert Journal
in April 1910
-- text (28K)
-- zip (12K)
- The American Ideal From Sidelights on
New London and Newer York and Other Essays, 1932
-- html (12K)
-- text (11K)
- The Blatchford Controversies With an introduction by Masie Ward. 1904.
-- text (46K)
-- pdf (152K)
- Our Tradition: If Christ Should Come
This essay first appeared in the April 1982 issue of Good Housekeeping magazine.
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- Are the Artists Going Mad?
This essay first appeared in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, December 1922, pages 271–278.
-- pdf (66K)
-- text (25K)
Poems
Introductions
Paul Nowak
has collected a number of introductions written by G.K.Chesterton.
Bibliographies
Quotations
Up to the G.K.Chesterton Web Page.
Last modified: 5th July 2019
Martin Ward,
De Montfort University, Leicester.
Email: martin@gkc.org.uk
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