The Defendant Author:Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The 'Defences' of which this volume is composed have appeared in The Speaker, and are here reprinted, after revision and amplification, by permission of the Editor. Portions of 'The Defence of Publicity' appeared in The Daily News. October, 1901.
- Introduction
- Ch. 1: A Defence of Penny Dreadfuls
- Ch. 2: A Defence of Rash Vows
- Ch. 3: A Defence of Skeletons
- Ch. 4: A Defence of Publicity
- Ch. 5: A Defence of Nonsense
- Ch. 6: A Defence of Planets
- Ch. 7: A Defence of China Shepherdesses
- Ch. 8: A Defence of Useful Information
- Ch. 9: A Defence of Heraldry
- Ch. 10: A Defence of Ugly Things
- Ch. 11: A Defence of Farce
- Ch. 12: A Defence of Humility
- Ch. 13: A Defence of Slang
- Ch. 14: A Defence of Baby Worship
- Ch. 15: A Defence of Detective Stories
- Ch. 16: A Defence of Patriotism
Other Works Of Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- The Napoleon of Notting Hill
- Utopia of Usurers and other Essays
- Manalive
- Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens
- The Man Who Knew Too Much
- The Wisdom of Father Brown
- Robert Browning
- The Club of Queer Trades
- Charles Dickens: (1906)
- The Innocence of Father Brown
- What I Saw in America
- All Things Considered
- The Man Who Was Thursday
- Heretics
- George Bernard Shaw
- What's Wrong With The World
- The Trees of Pride
- The Appetite of Tyranny
- The New Jerusalem
- Orthodoxy
- The Victorian Age in Literature
- Alarms and Discursions
- Eugenics and Other Evils
- Tremendous Trifles
- The Ball and the Cross
- Twelve Types: A Collection of Biographies
- The Crimes of England
- A Short History of England