G.K. Chesterton

Critique • Works • Views & quotes

Chesterton, undated

About the author

G.K. Chesterton

Biographical details △

Born
London, England, 1874

Died
Beaconsfield, England, 1936

Places lived
London; Beaconsfield, England

Nationality
English

Forms of writing
Novels, stories, essays, poetry, plays, criticism, biography

Genres
Literary, mystery, fantasy, satire

Writing language
English

Greatest lists △

Crime and Mystery Series

• Father Brown series (1911–1935)

Related pages △

• The Man Who Was Thursday

• The Blue Cross

• The Innocence of Father Brown

• Father Brown series

Works published in book form

Greybeard's at Play, poetry collection, 1900

The Wild Knight and Other Poems, poetry collection, 1900

The Defendant, essay collection, 1901

Thomas Carlyle, biography, 1902

Robert Louis Stevenson, biography, 1902

Robert Browning, biography, 1903

Varied Types, criticism, 1903

The Napoleon of Notting Hill, novel, 1904

Heretics, essay collection, 1905

The Club of Queer Tales, story collection, 1905

Charles Dickens: A Critical Study, criticism, 1906

The Man Who Was Thursday, novel, 1908

Orthodoxy, nonfiction, 1908

All Things Considered, essay collection, 1908

George Bernard Shaw, biography, 1909

The Ball and the Cross, novel, 1909

The Innocence of Father Brown, story collection, 1911

"The Blue Cross", "The Secret Garden", "The Queer Feet", "The Flying Stars", "The Invisible Man", "The Honour of Israel Gow", "The Wrong Shape", "The Sins of Prince Saradine", "The Hammer of God", "The Eye of Apollo", "The Sign of the Broken Sword", "The Three Tools of Death"

The Ballad of the White Horse, epic poem, 1911

Manalive, novel, 1912

Magic, play, 1913

The Flying Inn, novel, 1914

The Wisdom of Father Brown, story collection, 1914

"The Absence of Mr Glass", "The Paradise of Thieves", "The Duel of Dr Hirsch", "The Man in the Passage", "The Mistake of the Machine", "The Head of Caesar", "The Purple Wig", "The Perishing of the Pendragons", "The God of the Gongs", "The Salad of Colonel Cray", "The Strange Crime of John Boulnois", "The Fairy Tale of Father Brown"

Wine, Water and Song, poetry collection, 1915

The Crimes of England, nonfiction, 1916

The New Jerusalem, nonfiction, 1920

The Man Who Knew Too Much, story collection, 1922

"The Face in the Target", "The Vanishing Prince, A Story", "The Soul of the Schoolboy", "The Bottomless Well", "The Fad of the Fisherman", "The Hole in the Wall", "The Temple of Silence", "The Vengeance of the Statue", "The Trees of Pride", "The Garden of Smoke", "The Five of Swords", "The Tower of Treason"

Eugenics and Other Evils, nonfiction, 1922

What I Saw in America, nonfiction, 1922

Saint Francis of Assisi, nonfiction, 1923

Tales of the Long Bow, story collection, 1925

"The Unpresentable Appearance of Colonel Crane", "The Improbable Success of Mr. Owen Hood", "The Unobstrusive Traffic of Captain Pierce", "The Elusive Companion of Parson White", "The Exclusive Luxury of Enoch Oates", "The Unthinkable Theory of Professor Green", "The Unprecedented Architecture of Commander Blair", "The Ultimate Ultimatum of the League of the Long Bow"

The Everlasting Man, nonfiction, 1925

William Cobbett, biography, 1925

The Incredulity of Father Brown, story collection, 1926

"The Resurrection of Father Brown", "The Arrow of Heaven", "The Oracle of the Dog", "The Miracle of Moon Crescent", "The Curse of the Golden Cross", "The Dagger with Wings", "The Doom of the Darnaways", "The Ghost of Gideon Wise"

The Queen of Seven Swords, poetry collection, 1926

The Outline of Sanity, essay collection, 1926

The Secret of Father Brown, story collection, 1927

"The Secret of Father Brown" (framing story), "The Mirror of the Magistrate", "The Man with Two Beards", "The Song of the Flying Fish", "The Actor and the Alibi", "The Vanishing of Vaudrey", "The Worst Crime in the World", "The Red Moon of Meru", "The Chief Mourner of Marne", "The Secret of Flambeau" (framing story)

The Return of Don Quixote, novel, 1927

The Judgment of Dr. Johnson, play, 1927

The Collected Poems of G.K. Chesterton, poetry collection, 1927

The Poet and the Lunatics, story collection, 1929

Four Faultless Felons, story collection, 1931

Saint Thomas Aquinas, biography, 1933

Avowals and Denials, essay collection, 1934

The Scandal of Father Brown , story collection, 1935

"The Scandal of Father Brown", "The Quick One", "The Blast of the Book/The Five Fugitives", "The Green Man", "The Pursuit of Mr Blue", "The Crime of the Communist", "The Point of a Pin", "The Insoluble Problem", "The Vampire of the Village" (included in later editions)

The Well and the Shallows, essay collection, 1935

The Autobiography, autobiography, 1936

The Common Man, essay collection, 1950

Critique • Works • Views & quotes