Nonfiction · 1917
Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays
Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays, first published in 1917, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- A Song of Swords
- I — Art and Advertisement
- II — Letters and the New Laureates
- III — Unbusinesslike Business
- IV — The War on Holidays
- V — The Church of the Servile State
- VI — Science and the Eugenists
- VII — The Evolution of the Prison
- VIII — The Lash for Labour
- IX — The Mask of Socialism
- The Escape
- The New Raid
- The New Name
- A Workman’s History of England
- The French Revolution and the Irish
- Liberalism: A Sample
- The Fatigue of Fleet Street
- The Amnesty for Aggression
- Revive the Court Jester
- The Art of Missing the Point
- The Servile State Again
- The Empire of the Ignorant
- The Symbolism of Krupp
- The Tower of Bebel
- A Real Danger
- The Dregs of Puritanism
- The Tyranny of Bad Journalism
- The Poetry of the Revolution
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1874–1936 · Modern
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) was born in Kensington, London, and worked most of his life as a journalist and essayist, writing for the Daily News and the Illustrated London News. A big man — six foot four, known for his cape, crumpled hat and swordstick — he made his name with the essay collections Heretics (1905) and Orthodoxy (1908) and the novel The Man Who Was Thursday (1908), then created the detective-priest Father Brown in The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) and The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914). He converted to Roman Catholicism in 1922 and died in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, in 1936.
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