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G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
1874–1936
Best known for creating Father Brown, this English writer brought wit, paradox, and a love of argument to everything from detective stories to essays and Christian apologetics. His books are lively, funny, and often surprisingly modern in the questions they ask.
68 Audiobooks
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The innocence of Father Brown
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
What's Wrong with the World
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Orthodoxy
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The Ballad of the White Horse
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The Everlasting Man
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Orthodoxy
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Heretics
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Tremendous Trifles
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Eugenics and Other Evils
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
All Things Considered
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The wisdom of Father Brown
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
What I Saw in America
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Isä Brownin viisaus : Salapoliisikertomuksia
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The Defendant
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The Man Who Knew Too Much
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The New Jerusalem
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
St. Francis of Assisi
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Manalive
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The Man Who was Thursday, A Nightmare
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Isä Brownin yksinkertaisuus : Salapoliisikertomuksia
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The Ball and the Cross
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Alarms and Discursions
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The innocence of Father Brown
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Magic
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
A Short History of England
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The Club of Queer Trades
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The Man Who Knew Too Much
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The Uses of Diversity: A book of essays
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The secret of Father Brown
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The Wisdom of Father Brown
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The Victorian Age in Literature
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Poems
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Charles Dickens: A critical study
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Twelve Types
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Robert Browning
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
A Miscellany of Men
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Wine, Water, and Song
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The Flying Inn
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Varied Types
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Gilbert K. Chesterton
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The Barbarism of Berlin
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
George Bernard Shaw
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The Trees of Pride
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Lord Kitchener
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Tales of the Long Bow
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
O Napoleão de Notting Hill
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The Crimes of England
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
William Blake
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The Wild Knight and Other Poems
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Thomas Carlyle
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton, J. E. (John Ernest) Hodder-Williams
The Appetite of Tyranny: Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Irish Impressions
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Leo Tolstoy
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton, Edward Garnett, G. H. (George Herbert) Perris
A Chesterton Calendar
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The Superstition of Divorce
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The Ballad of St. Barbara, and Other Verses
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Greybeards at Play: Literature and Art for Old Gentlemen
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Fancies Versus Fads
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
London
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Tennyson
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton, Richard Garnett
Charles Dickens
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton, Frederic George Kitton
Divorce versus Democracy
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
G. F. Watts
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Thackeray
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton, Lewis Melville
About the author
Born in London in 1874, G. K. Chesterton became one of the most distinctive English writers of the early 20th century. He worked as a journalist and critic and wrote across many forms, including essays, poetry, novels, biography, and literary criticism.
He is especially remembered today for the Father Brown mysteries, but his reach was much wider. Chesterton also wrote influential works of Christian thought such as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man, and he was famous for turning ideas inside out with his playful, paradoxical style.
Chesterton died in 1936, yet his work has lasted because it is both entertaining and full of big questions. Whether he was writing detective fiction or social commentary, he had a gift for making serious subjects feel vivid, human, and enjoyable.