Long novel e-books (over 3h to read) of G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

CHAPTER I. THE TWO POETS OF SAFFRON PARK THE suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and ragged as a cloud of sunset.

By G. K. Chesterton Contents The Blue Cross The Secret Garden The Queer Feet The Flying Stars ...

I INTRODUCTION IN DEFENCE OF EVERYTHING ELSE THE only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge.

By G.K. Chesterton CONTENTS PART ONE: THE HOMELESSNESS OF MAN I The Medical Mistake II Wanted: An Unpractical Man III The New Hypocrite IV The Fear...

I. THE FACE IN THE TARGET Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and commons, the horizon of which was fringed with the far-o...

Nothing more strangely indicates an enormous and silent evil of modern society than the extraordinary use which is made nowadays of the word "orthodox."

THE CASE FOR THE EPHEMERAL I cannot understand the people who take literature seriously; but I can love them, and I do.

ONE -- The Absence of Mr Glass THE consulting-rooms of Dr Orion Hood, the eminent criminologist and specialist in certain moral disorders, lay along the sea-front at Scarborough, in a series of v...

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Chapter I How the Great Wind Came to Beacon House A wind sprang high in the west, like a wave of unreasonable happiness, and tore eastward across Englan...

CHAPTER I THE WAY OF THE CITIES CHAPTER II THE WAY OF THE DESERT CHAPTER III THE GATES OF THE CITY CHAPTER IV THE PHILOSOPHY OF SIGHT-SEEING CHAPTER V THE STREETS OF THE CI...

The flying ship of Professor Lucifer sang through the skies like a silver arrow; the bleak white steel of it, gleaming in the bleak blue emptiness of the evening.

I INTRODUCTION It will be very reasonably asked why I should consent, though upon a sort of challenge, to write even a popular essay in English history, who make no pretence to particular schola...

ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE CHARLES DICKENS, CIRCA 1840 _Frontispiece_ From an oil painting by R. J. ...

CHAPTER I BROWNING IN EARLY LIFE On the subject of Browning's work innumerable things have been said and remain to be said; of his life, considered as a narrative of facts, there is little or no...