Life and works of Chesterton.

1. GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON

2. He wrote on
philosophy, ontology, poetry, plays, journalis
m, public lectures and debates, literary and
art criticism, biography, Christian
apologetics and fiction, including fantasy
and detective fiction

3. HIS LIFE
29 MAY 1874
Campden Hill
in Kensignton
London

4. His childhood
Memory
problems Clumsy
Developmental
Dyspraxia

5. Physical
appeareance
•standing 6 feet 4 inches
(1.93)
•weighting around 21 stone
(130)
•Chesterton wore a cape and
a crumpled hat, with
a swordstick in hand, and a
cigar hanging out of his mouthChesterton: “ Look at you, anyone would think a
famine had struck England".
Shaw retorted,:“Look at you, anyone would think
you have caused it".

6. HIS
ADOLESCENCE
SCKEPTICISM AND
DEPRESSION
DIABOLISM AND THE
OCULT

7. Slade School of Art
Department of
University College
London
1896 London
publisher
Redway, and T.
Fisher Unwin
St. Paul
School

8. 1901- Frances
Blogg
She helped him
to pull himself
out of his
spiritual crisis

9. In 1909
he moved
to
Beaconsfiel
d with his
wife

10. How Far Is It To Bethlehem? –
Frances Chesterton ( 1917)
“How far is it to
Bethlehem?
Not very far.
Shall we find the stable
room
Lit by a star?
Can we see the little Child?
Is He within?
If we lift the wooden latch
May we go in?
May we stroke the creatures there
Ox, ass, or sheep?
May we peep like them and see
Jesus asleep?
May we stroke the
creatures there
Ox, ass, or sheep?
May we peep like them
and see
Jesus asleep
If we touch His tiny
hand
Will He awake?
Will He know we’ve
come so far
Just for His sake? (…)”

12. His ideas
Chesterton had no
difficulty standing up
for what he believed.
A man of strong
opinions and
enormously talented
at defending them
Chesterton explored
the evils of
racism, euthanasia
and abortion
Leader of the Distributist
movement promoting the idea that
private property should be divided
into smallest possible freeholds
and then distributed throughout
society.
Distributism

13. Chesterton died of
congestive heart failure
in 14 June 1936 at his
home in Beaconsfield

14. Dale
Ahlquist
AMERICAN CHESTERTON SOCIETY
He explores the life and work of the great
20th Century English writer

15. INFLUENCES
C H A R L E S
D I C K E N S
Charles Dickens,
Chesterton’s 1906
biography of the great
Victorian novelist, was
responsible for sparking a
revival of interest in
Dickens’ works

16. OTHERS
Thomas Aquinas
Robert Browning
George MacDonald
Hilaire Belloc
Walter Pater

17. INFLUENCED
GEORGE ORWELL
Orwell’s first work ever to
be published in the
English language was an
article that Chesterton , as
editor of his own paper
G.K.’s Weekly, published in
1928.

18. ORSON WELLES
A great admirer of
Chesterton's
writings
In 1938 produced a
radio dramatization of
GKC's novel The Man
Who Was Thursday

19. RAY BRADBURY
Bradbury
described
Chesterton as one
of his literary
heroes.
Wrote a long story-
poem about his
heroes, mentioning
Chesterton in the title
itself, entitled: "The
R.B., G.K.C., and
G.B.S. Forever Orient
Express"

20. F. Scott
Fitzgerald
He was a GKC
fan as well
“I want to be one of the
new school of American
novelists — the Wells-
Shaw- Chesterton-
Mackenzie combination”
(Scott Fitzgerald)

21. Ernest
Hemingway
He paid tribute to
Chesterton
through two
characters in the
short story "The
Three-Day
Blow", which
appeared in his
book In Our Time.

22. OTHERS
Agatha
Christie
Alfred
Hitchcock
J.K. Rowling

23. His works

24. NOVELS
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
The Man Who Was Thursday: A
Nightmare.
The Ball and the Cross
Manalive
The Flying Inn
The Return of Don Quixote
Basil Howe (1894)

25. SHORT STORIES
•Tales of the Long Bow
•The Perishing of the Pendragons
•Man Who Knew Too Much and
Other Stories
•The Club of Queer Trades

26. Plays
•MAGIC: A Fantastic Comedy in a Prelude and
Three Acts (1913)
•The Judgment of Dr. Johnson (1927)
•The Surprise (1952)
The Turkey and the Turk

27. NON -FICTION
•Eugenics and other evils (1917)
•The Everlasting Man (1925)
•Heretics
•Orthodoxy
•a Short History of England

28. BIOGRAPHIES
•St. Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox (1933)
•William Blake
•Charles Dickens (1906)
•Autobiography (Chesterton) (1936)
•George Bernard Shaw (1910)

29. POETRY
• The wild Knight and Other poems (1900)
• The Ballad of the White Horse (1911)
• Poems(1915)
• Wine, Water and Song(1915)
• The Ballad of St Barbara and Other Poems
(1922)
•The Queen Of Seven Swords

30. ESSAYS
•As I Was Saying (1936)
•Generally Speaking (1928)
•The Glass Walking-Stick
•Come to Think of It (1930)
•The Common Man (1950)

31. FATHER BROWN

32. FACTS
 Father Brown is a fictional character
created by English novelist G. K.
Chesterton.
 Chesterton based the character on Father
John O'Connor (1870–1952), a parish
priest in Bradford who was involved in
Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism in
1922.

33. CHARACTER
 Father Brown is a short, stumpy
Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes
and a large umbrella, and an uncanny
insight into human evil.
 He is characteristically humble, and is
usually rather quiet; when he does talk,
he almost always says something
profound.

34. INTERPRETATIONS AND
CRITISCISM
 Father Brown was the perfect vehicle for
conveying Chesterton's view of the world.

35. COMPILATION BOOKS
The innocence of Father Brown (1911)
The wisdom of Father Brown (1914)
The incredulity of Father Brown (1926)
The secret of Father Brown (1927)
The scandal of Father Brown (1935)

36. FATHER BROWN – 2013 TV
SERIES
 Father Brown is a British television period drama
which began airing on BBC One on 14 January 2013.
 The series is based on the character of Father Brown
created by G. K. Chesterton, using new stories
written for the program.
 It features Mark Williams as the eponymous crime
solving Roman Catholic priest.

37. SOURCES
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjfwYwFKar4
 http://www.online-literature.com/chesterton/
 http://www.ccel.org/ccel/chesterton
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton
 http://www.chesterton.org/discover-chesterton/other-
resources/frances-chesterton/
 http://www.ctlibrary.com/ch/2002/issue75/14.2.html
 http://www.chesterton.excerptsofinri.com
 http://www.chestertonacademy.org/
 http://www.chesterton.org