The GK Chesterton Collection

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was a British writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary critic. Chesterton wrote around 80 books, several hundred poems, some 200 short stories, several plays, plus 4,000 essays and newspaper columns. He was a columnist for the Daily News and The Illustrated London News. Book One: Heretics is a collection of 20 essays and articles by G. K. Chesterton, in which he appraises prominent figures of his time in the worlds of literature and the arts. He scrutinises the work of luminaries such as George Bernard Shaw, Rudyard Kipling and H. G. Wells with insight and wit, criticizing those who hold incomplete and flawed views of "life, the universe and everything". His observations on Omar Khayyam and Kipling are laugh-out-loud funny, for example when he questions what, exactly, it is that Kipling has always tried to say? Book 2: Orthodoxy (1908) by G. K. Chesterton is a classic of Christian apologetics. The book is a companion to his volume of essays