G.K. Chesterton
Born
in Kensington, London, England, The United Kingdom
May 29, 1874
Died
June 14, 1936
Genre
Influences
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Orthodoxy
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published
1908
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1621 editions
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
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published
1908
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2783 editions
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The Innocence of Father Brown (Father Brown, #1)
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published
1911
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2576 editions
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Saint Thomas Aquinas
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published
1923
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1976 editions
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The Everlasting Man
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published
1925
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384 editions
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The Complete Father Brown (Father Brown, #1-5)
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published
1935
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292 editions
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
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published
1922
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1943 editions
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Heretics
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published
1905
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778 editions
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The Wisdom of Father Brown (Father Brown, #2)
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published
1914
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967 editions
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Manalive
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published
1912
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589 editions
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Polls
October 2014 New School Poll
1911, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, pages 331
1925, The Trial by Franz Kafka, pages 276
1970, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, pages 291
1920, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, pages 305
1952, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, 581 pages
1916, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, pages 329
1999, Girl With a Pearl Earring byTracy Chevalier, 233 pages
1966, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, pages 311
1901, Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann, pages 731
1957, The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, pages 220
1924, The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham, pages 246
1974, Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow, pages 336
1952, The Birds by Daphne du Maurier, pages 75
1914, Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, 684 pages
1908, The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton, pages 198
1985, The Postman: Il Postino by Antonio Skármeta, pages 128
1980. Aztec by Gary Jennings, pages 754
1903, The Ambassadors by Henry James, pages 528
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