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G.K. Chesterton


Born
in Kensington, London, England, The United Kingdom
May 29, 1874

Died
June 14, 1936

Genre
Fiction, Crime, Religion

Influences
Charles Dickens, Thomas Aquinas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Browni ...more


Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic.

He was educated at St. Paul’s, and went to art school at University College London. In 1900, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time. He wrote a hundred books, contributions to 200 more, hundreds of poems, including the epic Ballad of the White Horse, five plays, five novels, and some two hundred short stories, including a popular series featuring the priest-detective, Father Brown. In spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist. He wrote over 4000 newspaper essays, including 30 years worth of weekly co ...more

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Orthodoxy
4.16 avg rating — 35,134 ratings — published 1908 — 2010 editions
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The Everlasting Man
4.13 avg rating — 8,523 ratings — published 1925 — 207 editions
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
3.59 avg rating — 6,371 ratings — published 1922 — 1453 editions
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4.18 avg rating — 4,296 ratings — published 1905 — 1677 editions
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“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
― G.K. Chesterton
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“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions
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“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
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