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    caused it." P. G. Wodehouse once described a very loud crash as "a sound like GK. Chesterton falling onto a sheet of tin". Chesterton usually wore a...
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  • This is a list of the books written by G. K. Chesterton. Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (1900), Greybeards at Play (poetry), London: R. Brimley Johnson. ———...
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  • Ethel Chesterton (née Down). He was the first cousin once removed of the author and poet G. K. Chesterton and the journalist Cecil Chesterton, his paternal...
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    Father Brown (category G. K. Chesterton)
    amateur detective. He is featured in 53 short stories by English author G. K. Chesterton, published between 1910 and 1936. Father Brown solves mysteries and...
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    The Man Who Was Thursday (category Novels by G. K. Chesterton)
    Thursday: A Nightmare is a 1908 novel by G. K. Chesterton. The book has been described as a metaphysical thriller. Chesterton prefixed the novel with a poem written...
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    Marconi scandal. He was the younger brother of G. K. Chesterton, a first cousin once removed of A. K. Chesterton, and a close associate of Hilaire Belloc....
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    and advocate of the thought of G. K. Chesterton. Ahlquist is the president and co-founder of the American Chesterton Society and the publisher of its...
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    Orthodoxy (book) (category Books by G. K. Chesterton)
    1908 book by G. K. Chesterton which he described as a "spiritual autobiography". It has become a classic of Christian apologetics. Chesterton considered...
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    The Napoleon of Notting Hill (category Novels by G. K. Chesterton)
    The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a novel written by G. K. Chesterton in 1904, set in a nearly unchanged London in 1984. Although the novel is set in the...
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  • of the whole human race". G. K. Chesterton presents similar views in his 1910 book, What's Wrong with the World. Chesterton believes that whilst God has...
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    Blogg Chesterton (28 June 1869 – 12 December 1938) was an English author of verse, songs and school drama. She was the wife of G. K. Chesterton and had...
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  • The Everlasting Man (category Books by G. K. Chesterton)
    Christian apologetics book written by G. K. Chesterton, published in 1925. It is, to some extent, a deliberate rebuttal of H. G. Wells' The Outline of History...
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  • Cecil Chesterton. This was a distributist publication founded in 1911 by Hilaire Belloc as Eye-Witness, with Cecil's brother G. K. Chesterton on the...
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    including William Shakespeare, J. R. R. Tolkien, Oscar Wilde, C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Hilaire Belloc. Joseph Pearce was born...
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  • G.K.'s Weekly was a British publication founded in 1925 (with its pilot edition surfacing in late 1924) by writer G. K. Chesterton, continuing until his...
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    Med. II, §13. In describing Thomism as a philosophy of common sense, G. K. Chesterton wrote: Since the modern world began in the sixteenth century, nobody's...
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  • Chesterton may refer to: Chesterton (surname) G. K. Chesterton A. K. Chesterton Cecil Chesterton Frank Chesterton (architect) Chesterton, Cambridge Chesterton...
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    and Ellen Terry; writers including Lord Alfred Douglas, H. G. Wells and G. K. Chesterton; the boxer Gene Tunney; the nun Laurentia McLachlan; and the...
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  • now remembered as the friend and first biographer of G. K. Chesterton. Titterton and Chesterton met on the London Daily News. In his younger days, he...
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  • Father Brown (1974 TV series) (category Adaptations of works by G. K. Chesterton)
    crime mysteries. The episodes were closely based on the stories by G. K. Chesterton. Kenneth More as Father Brown Dennis Burgess as Hercule Flambeau Portions...
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    friend and collaborator of G. K. Chesterton. George Bernard Shaw, a friend and frequent debate opponent of both Belloc and Chesterton, dubbed the pair the "Chesterbelloc"...
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    was instrumental in setting up the club, and the first president was G. K. Chesterton. There is a fanciful initiation ritual with an oath written by Sayers...
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  • England who was the basis of G. K. Chesterton's fictional detective Father Brown. O'Connor was instrumental in Chesterton's conversion to Roman Catholicism...
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  • "The Hammer of God" is a short story by G. K. Chesterton. It features his detective, Father Brown, and was published in the short story collection The...
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  • efforts of many authors such as John Henry Newman, G. K. Chesterton and C. S. Lewis, as well as G. E. M. Anscombe. According to Edgar J. Goodspeed in...
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  • Father Brown (2013 TV series) (category Adaptations of works by G. K. Chesterton)
    television series loosely based on the Father Brown short stories by G. K. Chesterton, starring Mark Williams as the crime-solving Roman Catholic priest...
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  • Freeman Wills Crofts, Edgar Jepson, Clemence Dane and Anthony Berkeley. G. K. Chesterton contributed a prologue, which was written after the novel had been...
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  • Sister Boniface Mysteries (category Adaptations of works by G. K. Chesterton)
    of the struggling Great Slaughter Amateur Dramatics Society known as G-SADS. The G-SADS are hoping to receive a grant to carry on their work and are performing...
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    The Ball and the Cross (category Novels by G. K. Chesterton)
    The Ball and the Cross is a novel by G. K. Chesterton. The title refers to a more worldly and rationalist worldview, represented by a ball or sphere, and...
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  • Flambeau (character) (category G. K. Chesterton)
    Hercule Flambeau is a fictional character created by English novelist G. K. Chesterton, who appears in 48 short stories about the character Father Brown....
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