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The fashionable fallacy about the two great powers that make the poetry of life
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Because he was the greatest writer of the 20th century. A convert to the Catholic Church, Chesterton wrote nearly a hundred books during his lifetime, and literally thousands of essays, in newspapers and magazines.
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Reflections on a Rotten Apple
A one-chapter explanation of Distributism
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A Misunderstanding about Method
A sketch of the first principles of Distributism
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The Ideal Detective Story
Did Shakespeare write the ideal detective story?
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How to Write a Detective Story
The fundamental principles of a great mystery story
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Errors about Detective Stories
Where do detective writers go wrong?
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A Defence of Detective Stories
On the detective story as a legitimate form of art
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The Song of Right and Wrong
The poem that got Chesterton fired from The Daily News.
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Elegy in a Country Churchyard
Chesterton’s “Elegy in a Country Churchyard” is one of the greatest anti-war and anti-government poems of all time.
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A Hymn: O God of Earth and Altar
A Chesterton poem you can sing in church
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The Rolling English Road
This is a poem that begs to be recited aloud
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A Child of the Snows
A great Christmas poem, which has inspired numerous song writers
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A Ballade of Suicide
Chesterton deals lightly with his own depression, helping us deal with ours
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Negative and Positive Morality
Salvation is not negative, but highly positive
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On Mending and Ending Things
Two opposite methods to reform
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A Defence of Baby Worship
With each new baby, the whole universe is again put on trial
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Lecture 10: The Man Who Was Thursday
Chesterton’s Cosmic Detective Story
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Lecture 9: Charles Dickens
The Best Work of Literary Criticism Ever Written
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Lecture 8: Heretics
Leading Thinkers of Chesterton’s Day and Why They are Wrong
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Lecture 7: The Club of Queer Trades
Chesterton’s Send-Up of Sherlock Holmes
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Lecture 6: The Napoleon of Notting Hill
Chesterton’s First Novel
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Lecture 5: G.F. Watts
Chesterton’s Appreciation of the Now-Forgotten Painter
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Lecture 4: Robert Browning
Chesterton’s Appreciation of the Poet: On a Happy Man
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Lecture 3: Twelve Types (and Varied Types)
Chesterton’s Second Book of Essays on Historical and Literary Figures
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Quotations of G. K. Chesterton
Some of the most celebrated and notorious G.K. Chesterton quotations. Share them. All of them. Topics Timeless Truths Free Advice The Cult of Progress War and Politics Government and Politics Society and Culture Love, Marriage, and the Sexes Religion and Faith Christmas Morality and Truth Economic Theory and Distributism Art and Literature Past Words on
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