Who Was G. K. Chesterton? A Beginner’s Guide to the Prince of Paradox
Journalist, novelist, poet, debater and convert: an introduction to the life and work of the man Shaw called “a man of colossal genius”.
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Long-form essays for newcomers and old friends of GKC.
Faith of Our Fathers: Chesterton, England and the Church
Abbeys and pilgrimages, the great pillage of the Reformation, Newman’s Second Spring and the writers who found their way home.
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Father Brown and the Birth of the Clerical Detective
A shabby little priest with an umbrella became one of fiction’s great detectives. Here is how — and where to start reading.
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The Ethics of Elfland: Why Fairy Tales Tell the Truth
Pumpkins, midnight and daisies: the chapter of Orthodoxy many readers call Chesterton’s finest, explained step by step.
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Chesterton and Dickens: In Defence of the Common Man
“Dickens did not write what the people wanted. Dickens wanted what the people wanted.” How Chesterton rescued a great novelist.
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Where to Start Reading Chesterton: A Twelve-Month Plan
Essays first, then Father Brown, then Orthodoxy: a practical month-by-month path into Chesterton’s eighty books.
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