| The Essential G. K. Chesterton Collection (400+ works) |  | Author: G. K. Chesterton
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 2,186
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B002HRE2KI
Publication Date: July 15, 2009
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Alarms and Discursions
All Things Considered
The Appetite of Tyranny
Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens
The Ballad of the White Horse
The Ball and The Cross
The Barbarism of Berlin
The Club of Queer Trades
The Crimes of England
The Defendant
Eugenics and Other Evils
George Bernard Shaw
Heretics
The Innocence of Father Brown
Lord Kitchener
Magic, A Fantastic Comedy
Manalive
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Man Who Was Thursday
A Miscellany of Men
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
The New Jerusalem
Orthodoxy
Robert Browning
A Short History of England
The Trees of Pride
Tremendous Trifles
Twelve Types
Utopia of Usurers and other Essays
Varied Types
The Victorian Age in Literature
What I Saw in America
What's Wrong With The World
The Wild Knight and Other Poems
The Wisdom of Father Brown
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Excellent Deal for Chesterton Lovers... and we all should be Chesterton Lovers! April 29, 2010
Avital Pilpel (New York, NY United States)
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
Did you ever wonder why Barnes & Noble always have those wonderful hard-cover copies of "War and Peace" on sale for $7.99, while the latest worthless "How to be Rich, Thin, and Powerful in 10 Easy Lessons" self-help monstrosity sells for $29.95 in paperback?
The answer, apart from supply and demand in general, is copyright: Tolstoy (or his heirs) do not receive any money from the sale of his books which are in the public domain. One of the main advantages of the Kindle is that it makes so many classics even more easily available -- in this case, for the price of one buck we get a selection of G. K. Chesterton's most famous essays.
True, being in the public domain, you can get these works literally for free online at online web sites like "Project Gutenberg"; but, after all, one can get the books themselves for free from the public library. Surely paying $0.99 to save the hassle of collecting all the works, and to have them in easy-to-read form on one's own kindle, is worth it for most people.
Not only is the price right, but the works themselves are classics. G. K. Chesterton was a most witty writer of philosophical, historical, and social criticism essays, as well as fantasy fiction (The Man who was Thursday, The Napoleon of Notting Hill) and detective novels (Father Brown). He did it from a Christian perspective, being the most famous Christian apologist of the 20th century, but one doesn't have to agree with his Christianity, or be religious at all, to enjoy his musings, wit, and charm.
Only Chesterton could write, for instance, that he is in favor of having the death penalty, but only by lynch mob -- since then there is "a chance some of those who truly deserve it" would be hanged, since it is "shocking to contemplate" how few of the leading politicians are hanged. Only he could hit the nail on the head about the difference between social customs and personal habits -- "customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish". Or the problem with communism -- that is assumes "no man would want more than his share, and then argue about whether his share should be delivered by motor-car or hot-air balloon".
Much could be said in his favor, but I presume most who are looking for kindle works of Chesterton in the first place already know and love him.
Now, you can read a very nice representative selection of Chesterton's works (except for the Father Brown mysteries, which presumably aren't in the public domain) on your kindle -- all for less than the price of a cup of cheap coffee. Hey, what do you have to lose?
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