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  2. G. K. Chesterton - Wikipedia

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    In 2014, G. K. Chesterton Academy of Chicago, a Catholic high school, opened in Highland Park, Illinois. [ 118 ] A fictionalised G. K. Chesterton is the central character in the Young Chesterton Chronicles , a series of young adult adventure novels by John McNichol, [ 119 ] [ 120 ] and in the G K Chesterton Mystery series , a series of ...

  3. The Ballad of the White Horse - Wikipedia

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    Prefatory note G. K. Chesterton, the poem's author. Chesterton begins his work with a note (in prose) declaring that the poem is not historical.He says that he has chosen to place the site of the Battle of Ethandun in the Vale of the White Horse, despite the lack of concrete evidence for this placement (many scholars now believe it was probably fought at Edington, Wiltshire).

  4. A Ballade of Suicide - Wikipedia

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    A Ballade of Suicide" is a ballade by G. K. Chesterton, originally published in his 1915 collection Poems. External links

  5. Four Faultless Felons - Wikipedia

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    Four Faultless Felons is a collection of stories by G. K. Chesterton, comprising four mystery novelettes connected by the theme of persons assumed to be criminals, who are paradoxically not so. Published in 1930 in London by Cassell and in New York by Dodd, Mead & Co. , it was the final collection of mystery stories that appeared during ...

  6. Lepanto (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Painting of the Battle of Lepanto. Unknown artist, after a print by Martin Rota, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London "Lepanto" is a poem by G. K. Chesterton celebrating the victory of the Holy League in the Battle of Lepanto (1571) written in irregular stanzas of rhyming, roughly paeonic tetrameter couplets, often ending in a quatrain of four dimeter lines.

  7. The Incredulity of Father Brown - Wikipedia

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    The Incredulity of Father Brown is a collection of eight stories by G. K. Chesterton, the third-published collection featuring the fictional detective Father Brown. [1] It was first published as a book in 1926 by Cassell of London, whose monthly Cassell's Magazine featured the last of the eight stories in its April number, illustrated by Stanley Lloyd.

  8. The Man Who Knew Too Much (book) - Wikipedia

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    The Man Who Knew Too Much: And Other Stories (1922) is a book of detective stories by English writer G. K. Chesterton, published in 1922 by Cassell and Company in the United Kingdom, and Harper Brothers in the United States.

  9. The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond - Wikipedia

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    These stories written at the end of Chesterton's career contain narrative stretches and improbabilities, but they do not lack his familiar flashes of insight. In the story The Crime of Captain Gahagan Chesterton observes, through the character of Mr. Pond, that "Love never needs time. But friendship always needs time.