Author:Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Works
editFiction
edit- The Noticeable Conduct of Professor Chadd (1904)
- The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904) (transcription project) (publ 1914, c. 1904)
- The Club of Queer Trades (1905) illustrated by William E. Mears
- The Man Who Was Thursday (1908)
- The Ball and the Cross (1909) (transcription project)
- Manalive (1912) (transcription project)
- The Flying Inn (1914) (transcription project)
- The Man Who Knew Too Much (1922)
- The Trees of Pride (1922)
- Tales of the Long Bow (1925) (transcription project)
- The Return of Don Quixote (1927) (external scan)
- The Sword of Wood (1928)
- For Lovers Only (1929)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2025
- The Poet and the Lunatics (1929)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2025
- Four Faultless Felons (1930)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2026
- The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond (1937)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2033
- The Disadvantage of Having Two Heads (1938)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2034
- Daylight and Nightmare (1986)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2049
- Basil Howe (2001)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2049
Plays
edit- Magic: A Fantastic Comedy in a Prelude and Three Acts (1913)
- The Judgment of Dr. Johnson (1927)
- The Turkey and the Turk (1930)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2026
- The Surprise (1952)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2048
Father Brown
edit- The Innocence of Father Brown (1911)
- The Blue Cross — The Secret Garden — The Queer Feet — The Flying Stars — The Invisible Man — The Honor 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 Wisdom of Father Brown (1914)
- The Absence of Mr. Glass — The Paradise of Thieves — The Duel of Dr. Hirsch — The Man in the Passage — The Mistake of the Machine — The Head of Caesar — The Purple Wig — The Perishing of the Pendragons — The God of the Gongs — The Salad of Colonel Cray — The Strange Crime of John Boulnois — The Fairy Tale of Father Brown
- The Donnington Affair, with Max Pemberton (1914) Short story; no scan
- The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926) (transcription project)
- The Resurrection of Father Brown — The Arrow of Heaven — The Oracle of the Dog (1923) — The Miracle of Moon Crescent (1924) — The Curse of the Golden Cross (1925) — The Dagger With Wings (1924) — The Doom of the Darnaways — The Ghost of Gideon Wise
- The Secret of Father Brown (1927)
- The Secret of Father Brown — The Mirror of the Magistrate (1925, as "The Mirror of Death") — The Man With Two Beards (1925) — The Song of the Flying Fish (1925) — The Actor and the Alibi (1926) — The Vanishing of Vaudrey (1927) — The Worst Crime in the World (1925) — The Red Moon of Meru (1927) — The Chief Mourner of Marne (1925) — The Secret of Flambeau
- Father Brown Omnibus (1929)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2025
- The Scandal of Father Brown (1935)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2031
Works from magazines
edit- "Ruskin: the Humorist" in The Speaker, 28th April, 1900
- "Literature of Information" in The Speaker, 3rd August, 1901
- "Walking Tours" in The Daily News (London), 23rd September, 1901
- "A Sermon on Cheapness" in The Speaker, 29th March, 1902
- "On Manners" in The Daily News (London), 18th July, 1902
- "The Blindness of the Sightseer" in The Daily News (London), 24th July, 1902
- "For Persons of the Name of Smith" in The Daily News (London), 28th November, 1902
- "Eulogy of Robin Hood" in The Daily News (London), 6th June, 1903
- "The True Vanity of Vanities" in The Daily News (London), 27th February, 1904
- "The Aesthetes in the Kitchen Garden" in The Daily News (London), 13th August, 1904
- "A Plea for Hasty Journalism" in The World (London), 13th September, 1904
- "The Voice of Shelley" in The Daily News (London), 10th June, 1905
- "The Need of Personalities in Politics" in The Daily News (London), 22nd July, 1905
- "Written in the Sand" in The Daily News (London), 19th August, 1905
- "Statues" in The Illustrated London News, 1st June, 1907
- "A Case of Comrades" in The Daily News (London), 14th March, 1908
- "A Theory of Tyrants" in The Daily News (London), 13th June, 1908
- "An Anecdote of Persecution" in The Daily News (London), 1st August, 1908
- "Something" in The Daily News (London), 9th July, 1910
- "What is Right with the World" in T.P.'s Weekly, 1910
- "The Great Translation" in The Daily News (London), 25th March, 1911
- "The Return of Pageantry" in The Eye-Witness, 29th June, 1911
- "Rational History" in The Illustrated London News, 10th May, 1913
- "Asparagus" in The New Witness, 18th June, 1914
- "The English Spirit and the Flea" in The Illustrated London News, 25th September, 1915
- "The Unknown Warrior" in The Illustrated London News, 20th November, 1920
- "The Hobby and the Head Waiter" in The New Witness, 17th March, 1922
- "The Apostle and the Wild Ducks" in The New Witness, 27th October, 1922
- "The Mirror of Death" (1925 March, Harper's Magazine) (ss)
- "The Man With Two Beards" (1925 April, Harper's Magazine) (ss)
- "The Chief Mourner of Marne" (1925 May, Harper's Magazine) (ss)
- "The Song of the Flying Fish" (1925 June, Harper's Magazine) (ss)
- "The Worst Crime in the World" (1925 Oct, Harper's Magazine) (ss)
- Longer works
- "The Peacock Trees" (1918 Nov, Ainslee's Magazine) (novella) Published as The Trees of Pride in 1922; also included in The Man Who Knew Too Much
Non-fiction
edit- The Defendant (1901)
- Twelve Types (1902)
- Heretics (1905) (transcription project)
- All Things Considered (1908)
- Varied Types (1903) (transcription project)
- Orthodoxy (1909) (transcription project)
- Tremendous Trifles (1909) includes The Diabolist (transcription project)
- What's Wrong with the World (1910) (transcription project)
- Alarms and Discursions (1911) (transcription project)
- A Miscellany of Men (1912) (transcription project)
- Introduction to Æsop's fables: A New Translation by Aesop, translated by Vernon Stanley Jones, illustrated by Arthur Rackham (1912)
- The Victorian Age in Literature (1913) (transcription project)
- Letters to an Old Garibaldian (1915) (transcription project)
- The Crimes of England (1915) (transcription project)
- The Barbarism of Berlin (1914); US title: The Appetite of Tyranny (1915)
- Divorce versus Democracy (1916)
- A Short History of England (1917) (transcription project)
- Eugenics and other evils Cassell and Co., London. 1922
- Irish Impressions (1919) (transcription project)
- The New Jerusalem (1920) (transcription project)
- The Superstition of Divorce (1920) (transcription project)
- What I saw in America (1922) (transcription project)
- The Everlasting Man (1925) (transcription project)
- The Superstitions of the Sceptic (1925) (No Scan Jan 2022)
- The Catholic Church and Conversion (1926) (transcription project)
- Social Reform vs. Birth Control (1927)
- The Outline of Sanity (1927)
- The Thing: Why I am a Catholic (1929)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2025
- The Resurrection of Rome (1930)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2026
- Christendom in Dublin (1932)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2028
- Sidelights of New London and Newer York (1932)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2028
- All I Survey (1933)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2029
- The Way of the Cross (1935)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2031
- The Common Man (1950)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2046
- Platitudes Undone (1997)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2093
Biographies
edit- Charles Dickens (1903) (transcription project)
- Robert Browning (1903) (transcription project)
- G.F. Watts (1904) (transcription project)
- George Bernard Shaw (1910)
- William Blake (1910) (transcription project)
- Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens (1911) (transcription project)
- Samuel Johnson (with Alice Meynell, 1911)
- Lord Kitchener (1917)
- St. Francis of Assisi (1923)
- William Cobbett (1925) (transcription project)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (transcription project)
- Chaucer (Chesterton) (1932)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2027
- St. Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox (1933)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2029
- Autobiography (Chesterton) (1936)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2031
Poetry
editCollections
edit- The Wild Knight and Other Poems (1900)
- Poems (1915)
- Wine, Water, and Song (1915)
- The Ballad of St. Barbara and other verses (1922) (transcription project)
- The Queen of Seven Swords (1926) (transcription project)
- The Collected Poems of G.K. Chesterton (1927)
- Christmas Poems (1929)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2025
- New and Collected Poems (1929)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2025
- Ubi Ecclesia (1929)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2025
- The Grave of Arthur (1930)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2026
- New Poems (1932)
Individual poems
edit- Africa
- Alliterativism (1914)
- Americanisation
- Antichrist, or the Reunion of Christendom: An Ode
- The Aristocrat
- A Ballad of Abbreviations
- The Ballad of St. Barbara
- Ballad of the Sun
- The Ballad of the White Horse (1911) (transcription project)
- Ballade d'une grande dame
- A Ballade of a Book-Reviewer
- A Ballade of an Anti-puritan
- A Ballade of Suicide
- A Ballade of the First Rain
- A Ballade of Theatricals
- Bay Combe
- The Beatific Vision ("Then Bernard smiled at me, that I should gaze")
- The Beatific Vision ("Through what fierce incarnations, furled")
- Blessed are the Peacemakers
- A Broad Minded Bishop Rebukes The Verminous St. Francis
- By the Babe Unborn
- A Child of the Snows
- A Christmas Carol, ("The Christ-child lay on Mary's lap")
- A Christmas Carol ("God rest you merry gentlemen")
- A Christmas Song for Three Guilds
- A Cider Song
- Confessional
- The Convert
- The Crusader Returns from Captivity
- The Dead Hero
- The Deluge
- The Donkey
- The Earth's Vigil
- An Election Echo
- Elegy in a Country Churchyard
- The English Graves
- The Englishman
- Eternities
- Fantasia
- Femina Contra Mundum
- For a War Memorial
- For Four Guilds
- Glencoe
- Gloria in Profundis (1927)
- Gold Leaves
- The Great Minimum
- Greybeards at Play (1900)
- Happy, Who Like Ulysses (translation of Heureux qui comme Ulysse by Joachim du Bellay)
- Here is the little door
- The Higher Unity
- The Horrible History of Jones
- The House of Christmas
- The Human Tree
- The Hunting of the Dragon
- A Hymn
- A Hymn for the Church Militant
- In Memoriam P. D.
- The Judgment Of England
- The Kingdom of Heaven
- The Last Hero
- Lepanto (1911)
- A Little Litany
- The Logical Vegetarian (1915)
- Lost
- Love's Trappist
- A Marriage Song
- The March of the Black Mountain (1913)
- Mediaevalism
- Memory
- The Mortal Answers
- Music
- The Mystery
- The Myth of Arthur
- The Nativity
- The New Fiction
- The New Freethinker
- The New Omar
- Nightmare
- The Old Song
- On the Disastrous Spread of Aestheticism in all Classes
- On the Downs
- The Philanthropist
- Poland
- The Praise of Dust
- A Prayer in Darkness
- The Red Sea
- The Revolutionist, or Lines to a Statesman
- On Righteous Indignation
- The Rolling English Road (1914)
- Rotarians (1927)
- A Second Childhood
- The Secret People
- The Shakespeare Memorial
- The Skeleton
- The Song Against Grocers
- A Song of Gifts to God
- The Song of Right and Wrong
- The Song of the Oak
- The Song of the Strange Ascetic (1913)
- The Song of the Wheels
- The Song of Quoodle
- Songs of Education
- Sonnet ("If you have picked your lawn of leaves and snails")
- Sonnet ("High on the wall that holds Jerusalem")
- Sonnet with the Compliments of the Season
- St. Francis Xavier
- The Strange Music
- The Sword of Surprise
- To Captain Fryatt
- To Edmund Clerihew Bentley
- To F. C. In Memoriam Palestine, '19
- To Hilaire Belloc
- To M. E. W.
- To St. Michael in Time of Peace
- To the Unknown Warrior
- The Towers of Time
- Tribute to Gladstone
- The Trinkets
- The Truce of Christmas
- The Unpardonable Sin
- Variations of an Air
- A Wedding in War-time
- When I Came Back to Fleet Street
- Who Goes Home?
- The Wife of Flanders
- Wine and Water
- The Wise Men
- A Word
Essays & Other
edit- How to Help Annexation (1918)
- Introduction to Dickens' "Martin Chuzzlewit" (1907)
- "The Conspiracy of Journalism: The Reflections of a Book Reviewer," in Pall Mall Magazine (1902) (ar)
- "Books to Read" in Pall Mall Magazine (1902) (ar)
- "The New English Academy" in Pall Mall Magazine (1902) (ar)
- "Victor Hugo" in Pall Mall Magazine (1902) (ar)
- The End of the Roman Road (1924)
- "The Modern Surrender of Women" in The Dublin Review (1909)
Collections of Essays
edit- Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays (1917)
- The Uses of Diversity (1920)
- Fancies versus Fads (1923)
- Generally Speaking (1928)
- Come to Think of It (1930)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2025
- All is Grist (1931)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2026
- Sidelights on New London and Newer York (1932)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2027
- All I Survey (1933)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2028
- Avowals and Denials (1934)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2029
- The Well and the Shallows (1935)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2030
- As I Was Saying (1936)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2031
- The End of the Armistice (1940)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2035
- The Common Man (1950)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2045
- A Handful of Authors (1953)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2048
- The Glass Walking-Stick (1955)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2050
- Where All Roads Lead (1961)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2056
- The Spice of Life and Other Essays (1965) U.S. public domain selections only
- Chesterton on Shakespeare (1972)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2067
- The Apostle and the Wild Ducks (1975) U.S. public domain selections only
- On Lying in Bed and Other Essays (2000)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2095
Speeches & Debates
edit- "Culture and the Coming Peril" (1927)
- Do We Agree? (1928)
Other
edit- Our Notebook (1909)
- "Introduction" in Bohemia's claim for freedom (1915)
- Preface Love and Freindship and other early works, Austen, J. New York: Stokes. 1922
- Brave New Family (1990)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2048
- The Coloured Lands (1938)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2033
- G.K.C. as M.C. (1929)
- The Spirit of Christmas (1984)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2048
As illustrator
edit- The Green Overcoat (1912) by Hilaire Belloc
- The Postmaster-General (1932) by Hilaire Belloc
Works about Chesterton
edit- "Chesterton, Gilbert Keith," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
- "Chesterton, Gilbert Keith," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Chesterton, Gilbert Keith," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
- "The Rightness of G. K. Chesterton" in The Catholic World, Vol. 113, No. 674 (May, 1921) by Marion Couthouy Smith
Parodies of G. K. Chesterton
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Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.
This author died in 1936, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 87 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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