THE APPETITE OF TYRANNY
Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian
By G.K. Chesterton
CONTENTS
II. THE REFUSAL OF RECIPROCITY
THE WILD KNIGHT
AND OTHER POEMS
By Gilbert Chesterton
1900
CONTENTS
THE BALLAD OF THE BATTLE OF GIBEON
THE DEFENDANT
By G. K. Chesterton
London MDCCCCII
CONTENTS
IN
DEFENCE OF A NEW EDITION
INTRODUCTION
A
DEFENCE OF PENNY DREADFULS
A
DEFENCE OF RASH VOWS
A
DEFENCE OF SKELETONS
A
DEFENCE OF PUBLICITY
A
DEFENCE OF NONSENSE
A
DEFENCE OF PLANETS
A
DEFENCE OF CHINA SHEPHERDESSES
A
DEFENCE OF USEFUL INFORMATION
A
DEFENCE OF HERALDRY
A
DEFENCE OF UGLY THINGS
A
DEFENCE OF FARCE
A
DEFENCE OF HUMILITY
A
DEFENCE OF SLANG
A
DEFENCE OF BABY-WORSHIP
A
DEFENCE OF DETECTIVE STORIES
A
DEFENCE OF PATRIOTISM
TWELVE TYPES
By G.K. Chesterton
London 1902
CONTENTS
CHARLOTTE
BRONTË
WILLIAM
MORRIS AND HIS SCHOOL
THE
OPTIMISM OF BYRON
POPE
AND THE ART OF SATIRE
FRANCIS
ROSTAND
CHARLES
II
STEVENSON
THOMAS
CARLYLE
TOLSTOY
AND THE CULT OF SIMPLICITY
SAVONAROLA
THE
POSITION OF SIR WALTER SCOTT
ROBERT BROWNING
By G.K. Chesterton
CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I BROWNING IN EARLY LIFE
- CHAPTER II EARLY WORKS
- CHAPTER III BROWNING AND HIS MARRIAGE
- CHAPTER IV BROWNING IN ITALY
- CHAPTER V BROWNING IN LATER LIFE
- CHAPTER VI BROWNING AS A LITERARY ARTIST
- CHAPTER VII "THE RING AND THE BOOK"
- CHAPTER VIII THE PHILOSOPHY OF BROWNING
- INDEX
THE NEW JERUSALEM
By G. K. Chesterton
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. — THE WAY OF THE CITIES
CHAPTER II. — THE WAY OF THE DESERT
CHAPTER III. — THE GATES OF THE CITY
CHAPTER IV. — THE PHILOSOPHY OF SIGHT-SEEING
CHAPTER V. — THE STREETS OF THE CITY
CHAPTER VI. — THE GROUPS OF THE CITY
CHAPTER VII. — THE SHADOW OF THE PROBLEM
CHAPTER VIII. — THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DESERT
CHAPTER IX. — THE BATTLE WITH THE DRAGON
CHAPTER X. — THE ENDLESS EMPIRE
CHAPTER XI. — THE MEANING OF THE CRUSADE
CHAPTER XII. — THE FALL OF CHIVALRY
CHAPTER XIII. — THE PROBLEM OF ZIONISM
VARIED TYPES
By G.K. Chesterton
1905
CONTENTS
ORTHODOXY
By G. K. Chesterton
CONTENTS
CHAPTER II.—The Maniac
CHAPTER III.—The Suicide of Thought
CHAPTER IV—The Ethics of Elfland
CHAPTER V.—The Flag of the World
CHAPTER VI.—The Paradoxes of Christianity
CHAPTER VII.—The Eternal Revolution
CHAPTER VIII.—The Romance of Orthodoxy
CHAPTER IX.—Authority and the Adventurer
THE VICTORIAN AGE
IN LITERATURE
G. K. Chesterton
CONTENTS
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction | 7 | |
| I | The Victorian Compromise and its Enemies | 12 |
| II | The Great Victorian Novelists | 90 |
| III | The Great Victorian Poets | 156 |
| IV | The Break-up of the Compromise | 204 |
| Bibliographical Note | 253 | |
| Index | 255 | |
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Gilbert K. Chesterton
1909
CONTENTS
A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLAND
By G. K. Chesterton
London: Chatto & Windus MCMXVII
CONTENTS
- I. INTRODUCTION
- II. THE PROVINCE OF BRITAIN
- III. THE AGE OF LEGENDS
- IV. THE DEFEAT OF THE BARBARIANS
- V. ST. EDWARD AND THE NORMAN KINGS
- VI. THE AGE OF THE CRUSADES
- VII. THE PROBLEM OF THE PLANTAGENETS
- VIII. THE MEANING OF MERRY ENGLAND
- IX. NATIONALITY AND THE FRENCH WARS
- X. THE WAR OF THE USURPERS
- XI. THE REBELLION OF THE RICH
- XII. SPAIN AND THE SCHISM OF NATIONS
- XIII. THE AGE OF THE PURITANS
- XIV. THE TRIUMPH OF THE WHIGS
- XV. THE WAR WITH THE GREAT REPUBLICS
- XVI. ARISTOCRACY AND THE DISCONTENTS
- XVII. THE RETURN OF THE BARBARIAN
- XVIII. CONCLUSION
APPRECIATIONS AND CRITICISMS of the works of CHARLES DICKENS
By G. K. Chesterton
1911
CONTENTS
- CHAPTER PAGE
- Introduction vii
- Sketches by Boz 1
- Pickwick Papers 13
- Nicholas Nickleby 26
- Oliver Twist 38
- Old Curiosity Shop 50
- Barnaby Rudge 65
- American Notes 76
- Pictures from Italy 87
- Martin Chuzzlewit 90
- Christmas Books 103
- Dombey and Son 114
- David Copperfield 129
- Christmas Stories 140
- Bleak House 148
- Child’s History of England 160
- Hard Times 169
- Little Dorrit 178
- A Tale of Two Cities 188
- Great Expectations 197
- Our Mutual Friend 207
- Edwin Drood 218
- Master Humphrey’s Clock 229
- Reprinted Pieces 239
ILLUSTRATIONS
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PAGE
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Charles
Dickens, Circa 1840 Frontispiece
- From an oil painting by R. J. Lane.
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Charles
Dickens, 1842 76
- From a bust by H. Dexter, executed during Dickens’s first visit to America.
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Charles
Dickens, 1844 90
- From a miniature by Margaret Gillies.
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Charles
Dickens, 1849 130
- From a daguerreotype by Mayall.
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Charles
Dickens, 1858 184
- From a black and white drawing by Baughiet.
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Charles
Dickens, 1859 188
- From an oil painting by W. P. Frith, R.A.
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Charles
Dickens, Circa 1860 198
- Photograph by J. & C. Watkins.
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Charles
Dickens, 1868 218
- From a photograph by Gurney.