The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton E-Book

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

• Herausgeber: PergamonMedia
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Serie: Highlights of World Literature
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

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Beschreibung

This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Aesop's Fables; a new translationAesop • The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare • Orthodoxy • The Innocence of Father Brown • Heretics • The Wisdom of Father Brown • What's Wrong with the World • All Things Considered • The Ballad of the White Horse • Tremendous Trifles • Aesop's Fables - Volume Aesop • Orthodoxy • The Man Who Knew Too Much • The Napoleon of Notting Hill • A Short History of England • What I Saw in America • The Ball and the Cross • Manalive • Eugenics and Other Evils • The Victorian Age in Literature • The Defendant • The Club of Queer Trades • A Miscellany of Men • Magic • George Bernard Shaw • Twelve Types • The Innocence of Father Brown • Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens • Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays • Alarms and Discursions • Poems • The Crimes of England • The New Jerusalem • The Barbarism of Berlin • Varied Types • The Trees of Pride • Wine, Water, and Song • Robert Browning • A Chesterton Calendar • The Man Who Knew Too Much • The Man Who was Thursday, A Nightmare • The Wild Knight and Other Poems • Greybeards at Play: Literature and Art for Old Gentlemen • Lord Kitchener • The Appetite of Tyranny: Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian • The Ballad of St. Barbara, and Other Verses • etc.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

THE WISDOM OF FATHER BROWN

To LUCIAN OLDERSHAW

ONE — The Absence of Mr Glass

TWO. — The Paradise of Thieves

THREE — The Duel of Dr Hirsch

FOUR — The Man in the Passage

FIVE — The Mistake of the Machine

SIX — The Head of Caesar

SEVEN — The Purple Wig

EIGHT — The Perishing of the Pendragons

NINE — The God of the Gongs

TEN — The Salad of Colonel Cray

ELEVEN — The Strange Crime of John Boulnois

TWELVE — The Fairy Tale of Father Brown

THE INNOCENCE OF FATHER BROWN

By G. K. Chesterton

Contents

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 MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH

CONTENTS

THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH: I. THE FACE IN THE TARGET II. THE VANISHING PRINCE III. THE SOUL OF THE SCHOOLBOY IV. THE BOTTOMLESS WELL V. THE FAD OF THE FISHERMAN VI. THE HOLE IN THE WALL VII. THE TEMPLE OF SILENCE VIII. THE VENGEANCE OF THE STATUE

THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH

I. THE FACE IN THE TARGET

II. THE VANISHING PRINCE

III. THE SOUL OF THE SCHOOLBOY

IV. THE BOTTOMLESS WELL

V. THE FAD OF THE FISHERMAN

VI. THE HOLE IN THE WALL

VII. THE TEMPLE OF SILENCE

VIII. THE VENGEANCE OF THE STATUE

UTOPIA OF USURERS AND OTHER ESSAYS

By Gilbert Keith Chesterton

A SONG OF SWORDS

UTOPIA OF USURERS

THE ESCAPE

THE NEW RAID

THE NEW NAME

A WORKMAN'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE IRISH

LIBERALISM: A SAMPLE

THE FATIGUE OF FLEET STREET

THE AMNESTY FOR AGGRESSION

REVIVE THE COURT JESTER

THE ART OF MISSING THE POINT

THE SERVILE STATE AGAIN

THE EMPIRE OF THE IGNORANT

THE SYMBOLISM OF KRUPP

THE TOWER OF BEBEL

A REAL DANGER

THE DREGS OF PURITANISM

THE TYRANNY OF BAD JOURNALISM

THE POETRY OF THE REVOLUTION

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE WORLD

By G.K. Chesterton

PART ONE. THE HOMELESSNESS OF MAN

I. THE MEDICAL MISTAKE

II. WANTED, AN UNPRACTICAL MAN

III. THE NEW HYPOCRITE

IV. THE FEAR OF THE PAST

V. THE UNFINISHED TEMPLE

VI. THE ENEMIES OF PROPERTY

VII. THE FREE FAMILY

VIII. THE WILDNESS OF DOMESTICITY

IX. HISTORY OF HUDGE AND GUDGE

X. OPPRESSION BY OPTIMISM

XI. THE HOMELESSNESS OF JONES

PART TWO. IMPERIALISM, OR THE MISTAKE ABOUT MAN

I. THE CHARM OF JINGOISM

II. WISDOM AND THE WEATHER

III. THE COMMON VISION

IV. THE INSANE NECESSITY

PART THREE. FEMINISM, OR THE MISTAKE ABOUT WOMAN

I. THE UNMILITARY SUFFRAGETTE

II. THE UNIVERSAL STICK

III. THE EMANCIPATION OF DOMESTICITY

IV. THE ROMANCE OF THRIFT

V. THE COLDNESS OF CHLOE

VI. THE PEDANT AND THE SAVAGE

VII. THE MODERN SURRENDER OF WOMAN

VIII. THE BRAND OF THE FLEUR-DE-LIS

IX. SINCERITY AND THE GALLOWS

X. THE HIGHER ANARCHY

XI. THE QUEEN AND THE SUFFRAGETTES

XII. THE MODERN SLAVE

PART FOUR. EDUCATION: OR THE MISTAKE ABOUT THE CHILD

I. THE CALVINISM OF TO-DAY

II. THE TRIBAL TERROR

III. THE TRICKS OF ENVIRONMENT

IV. THE TRUTH ABOUT EDUCATION

V. AN EVIL CRY

VI. AUTHORITY THE UNAVOIDABLE

VII. THE HUMILITY OF MRS. GRUNDY

VIII. THE BROKEN RAINBOW

IX. THE NEED FOR NARROWNESS

X. THE CASE FOR THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS

XI. THE SCHOOL FOR HYPOCRITES

XII. THE STALENESS OF THE NEW SCHOOLS

XIII. THE OUTLAWED PARENT

XIV. FOLLY AND FEMALE EDUCATION

PART FIVE. THE HOME OF MAN

I. THE EMPIRE OF THE INSECT

II. THE FALLACY OF THE UMBRELLA STAND

III. THE DREADFUL DUTY OF GUDGE

IV. A LAST INSTANCE

V. CONCLUSION

THREE NOTES

I. ON FEMALE SUFFRAGE

II. ON CLEANLINESS IN EDUCATION

III. ON PEASANT PROPRIETORSHIP

What I saw in America

Printed in Great Britain by T. and A. Constable Ltd. at the Edinburgh University Press

Contents

What is America?

A Meditation in a New York Hotel

A Meditation in Broadway

Irish and other Interviewers

Some American Cities

In the American Country

The American Business Man

Presidents and Problems

Prohibition in Fact and Fancy

Fads and Public Opinion

The Extraordinary American

The Republican in the Ruins

FOOTNOTE:

Is the Atlantic Narrowing?

Lincoln and Lost Causes

Wells and the World State

A New Martin Chuzzlewit

The Spirit of America

The Spirit of England

The Future of Democracy

THE VICTORIAN AGE IN LITERATURE

NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

LONDON THORNTON BUTTERWORTH LTD.

Copyright, 1913, by HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

CONTENTS

THE VICTORIAN AGE IN LITERATURE

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I

THE VICTORIAN COMPROMISE AND ITS ENEMIES

CHAPTER II

THE GREAT VICTORIAN NOVELISTS

CHAPTER III

THE GREAT VICTORIAN POETS

CHAPTER IV

THE BREAK-UP OF THE COMPROMISE

A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLAND BY G. K. CHESTERTON

LONDON CHATTO & WINDUS MCMXVII

CONTENTS

A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLAND

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

TREMENDOUS TRIFLES