G.K. Chesterton
Born
in Kensington, London, England, The United Kingdom
May 29, 1874
Died
June 14, 1936
Genre
Influences
Orthodoxy
185 editions
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published
1908
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
2489 editions
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1908
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The Innocence of Father Brown (Father Brown, #1)
2093 editions
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published
1911
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The Complete Father Brown
216 editions
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published
1935
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The Everlasting Man
272 editions
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published
1925
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
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published
1922
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Heretics
1535 editions
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published
1905
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Saint Thomas Aquinas
by
167 editions
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published
1933
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The Wisdom of Father Brown (Father Brown, #2)
384 editions
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published
1914
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St. Francis of Assisi
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1923
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Polls
May 2017 New School Classic Poll
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, 1997, 512
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, 1997, 607
My Ántonia by Willa Cather, 1918, 232
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, 1980, 416
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton, 1908, 182
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, 1989, 288 pgs
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, 1962, 246
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim, 1922, 232
The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata, 1954, 189
The Winds of War by Herman Wouk, 1971, 892
Silence by Shūsaku Endō, 1966, 201
After the Divorce by Grazia Deledda, 1902, 174
Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow, 1959, 341
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