Chapter IX: Authority and the Adventurer

THE VICTORIAN AGE IN LITERATURE BY G. K. CHESTERTON CHAP. PAGE Introduction 7 I The Victorian Compromise and its Enemies 12 II The Great Victorian Novelists 90 III The Great Victorian Poets 156 IV The Break-up of the Compromise 204 Bibliographical Note 253 Index 255

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW By GILBERT K. CHESTERTON 1909 CONTENTS

Introduction to the First Edition
The Problem of a Preface
The Irishman
The Puritan
The Progressive
The Critic
The Dramatist
The Philosopher
Advertisements

A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLAND BY G. K. CHESTERTON LONDON CHATTO & WINDUS MCMXVII CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTION
II. THE PROVINCE OF BRITAIN
III. THE AGE OF LEGENDS
IV. THE DEFEAT OF THE BARBARIANS
V. ST. EDWARD AND THE NORMAN KINGS
VI. THE AGE OF THE CRUSADES
VII. THE PROBLEM OF THE PLANTAGENETS
VIII. THE MEANING OF MERRY ENGLAND
IX. NATIONALITY AND THE FRENCH WARS
X. THE WAR OF THE USURPERS
XI. THE REBELLION OF THE RICH
XII. SPAIN AND THE SCHISM OF NATIONS
XIII. THE AGE OF THE PURITANS
XIV. THE TRIUMPH OF THE WHIGS
XV. THE WAR WITH THE GREAT REPUBLICS
XVI. ARISTOCRACY AND THE DISCONTENTS
XVII. THE RETURN OF THE BARBARIAN
XVIII. CONCLUSION

APPRECIATIONS AND CRITICISMS of the works of CHARLES DICKENS BY G. K. CHESTERTON 1911 CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

Introduction vii
Sketches by Boz 1
Pickwick Papers 13
Nicholas Nickleby 26
Oliver Twist 38
Old Curiosity Shop 50
Barnaby Rudge 65
American Notes 76
Pictures from Italy 87
Martin Chuzzlewit 90
Christmas Books 103
Dombey and Son 114
David Copperfield 129
Christmas Stories 140
Bleak House 148
Child’s History of England 160
Hard Times 169[iv]
Little Dorrit 178
A Tale of Two Cities 188
Great Expectations 197
Our Mutual Friend 207
Edwin Drood 218
Master Humphrey’s Clock 229
Reprinted Pieces 239

[v] ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
Charles Dickens, Circa 1840 Frontispiece
From an oil painting by R. J. Lane.
Charles Dickens, 1842 76
From a bust by H. Dexter, executed during Dickens’s first visit to America.
Charles Dickens, 1844 90
From a miniature by Margaret Gillies.
Charles Dickens, 1849 130
From a daguerreotype by Mayall.
Charles Dickens, 1858 184
From a black and white drawing by Baughiet.
Charles Dickens, 1859 188
From an oil painting by W. P. Frith, R.A.
Charles Dickens, Circa 1860 198
Photograph by J. & C. Watkins.
Charles Dickens, 1868 218
From a photograph by Gurney.

EUGENICS AND OTHER EVILS

EUGENICS AND OTHER EVILS

By G.K. Chesterton CONTENTS