[Selected Early Works, 1900 - 1915]

Comprising 1) Greybeards At Play, 1900. Author's first book. 2) The Wild Knight and other poems, 1900. 3) The Defendant, 1901. 4) Twelve Types, 1902. A series of essays mainly on literary figures such as Charlotte Bronte and Tolstoy but also including Francis of Assissi, Charles II and Carlyle. 5) Robert Browning, 1903. 6) The Napoleon of Notting Hill, 1904. 7) G. F. Watts, 1904. 8) The Club of Queer Trades, 1905. 9) Heretics, 1905. 10) Charles Dickens, 1906. 11) All Things Considered, 1908. 12) The Man Who Was Thursday, 1908. 13) Tremendous Trifles, 1909. 14) Orthodoxy, 1909 (actually published in 1908). 15) What's Wrong With The World, 1910. 16) Alarms and Discursions, 1910. 17) The Ball and the Cross, 1910. 18) George Bernard Shaw, 1910. 19) Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens, 1911. 20) The Ballad of the White Horse, 1911. 21) The Innocence of Father 1911. 22) Manalive, 1912. 23) A Miscellany of Men, 1912. 24) The Victorian Age in Literature, n.d. [1913]. 25) The Flying Inn, 1914. 26) The Wisdom of Father Brown, 1914. 27) The Crimes of England, 1915. 28) William Blake, [1910] November 1910. 29) Biography For Beginners (1905), illustrated by Chesterton. 30) Magic. A Fantastic Comedy [1913].

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was a prolific English critic and author of verse, essays, novels, and short stories, numerous examples of which are to be found here.