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Chesterton
I knew nothing about Catholics, or even much about late 19th century England, but loved
Chesterton's writing. I have read and re-read the Father Brown stories over the years. It
was over twenty years before I got around to reading GKC's most famous book, _The Man
Who Was Thursday_. Then later I went on to read his non-fiction--which is often just as
funny and insightful. The local libraries often have copies of Chesterton's works that are
over fifty years old -- and still being checked out.
Chesterton also wrote a column for the Illustrated London News from 1905 until 1936 and
I've been reading that for the past four years. That's there I get most of the quotes that I
link to below. It gives a different feel to that section of world history.
• The Father Brown series, a Roman Catholic cleric as a detective who tried to
understand the psychology behind the mystery.
• The Man Who Was Thursday, a unique book that I won't spoil here.
• Orthodoxy and other writings about the Roman Catholic Church.
• Martin Ward's Chesterton page includes links to some of Chesterton's work that is
available on the web.
• Mary De Marco's GKC Page includes information about distributivism, his political
philosophy.
• The American Chesterton Society's newly revised home page includes articles
from "Generally Speaking", their monthly newsletter. This page was mentioned in
the last paragraph of the G. K. Wired article in the January 1997 issue.
• Gilbert!, a magazine about Chesterton, new web address
• Chesterton Quote of the Week and other Information
Quotes
Chesterton Quotes
More Chesterton [1926-1928]
It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to
say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it. [in
1923]
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