The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton Volume 08: The Man Who Knew Too Much; Tales of the Long Bow; The Return of Don Quixote

by G.K. Chesterton, George Marlin (Editor)

Edited by George Marlin The is the second volume of Chesterton's novels in this series of his Collected Works . (Volume VI is the other book of novels.) Besides his well-known philosophical-theological writings, Chesterton's fiction is very popular ( Father Brown Mysteries, The Man Who Was Thursday , etc.) and among those who regarded him as a great literary figure are T.S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, C.S. Lewis and W.H. Auden. The reader will encounter characters in these novels that defend with great vigor the dignity of the person and fundamental Christian beliefs. "Chesterton leaves a permanent claim upon our loyalty to see that the work that he did in his time is continued in ours."
�T.S. Eliot

Genres: Fiction

800 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 1999

About the author

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 columns for the Illustrated London News, and 13 years of weekly columns for the Daily News. He also edited his own newspaper, G.K.’s Weekly.

Chesterton was equally at ease with literary and social criticism, history, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology.