The Spice of Life and Other Essays

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Edited by Dorothy Collins.

Part One: Essays on Literature in General

• Sentimental Literature (1901)
• How to Write a Detective Story (before 1937)
• Humour (1928)
• Fiction as Food, Part 1 (1924)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2029
• Fiction as Food, Part 2 (1911)
• The Soul in Every Legend (1921)

Part Two: On Particular Books and Writers

• The Macbeths—Copyrighted in the United States until 2046
• The Tragedy of King Lear—Copyrighted in the United States until 2045
• The Everlasting Nights (1901)
• Aesop's Fables (1912)
• Both Sides of the Looking-Glass (1933)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2028
• And So To Bed (1926)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2031
• As Large as Life in Dickens (1902)
• Disputes on Dickens (before 1937)
• Charlotte Bronte as a Romantic (1917)

Part Three: Thought and Belief

• Anti-Religious Thought in the Eighteenth Century (1926)
• The Camp and the Cathedral (before 1937)
• The Religious Aspect of Westminster Abbey (before 1937)
• The Religious Aim of Education (1925)
• The Philosophy of Islands (1903)

Part Four: At Home and Abroad

• On Holidays (1914)
• The Peasant (1911)
• The Lost Railway Station (1919)
• Bethlehem and the Great Cities (1922)
• The Sacredness of Sites (1930)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2025
• Scipio and the Children (1935)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2030
• The Real Issue (1926)

Part Five: The Spice of Life

• The Comic Constable (1910)
• Capone’s Pal (1935)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2030
• On Losing One’s Head (1910)
• The Spice of Life (1936)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2031
• On Fragments (1906)