Lecture 69: The Scandal of Father Brown
The Final Collection of the Padre Problem-Solver
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Lecture 68: Avowals and Denials
Essays from The Illustrated London News
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Lecture 67: St. Thomas Aquinas
The Best Book Ever Written on St. Thomas Aquinas
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Lecture 66: All I Survey
Essays from The Illustrated London News
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Lecture 65: Christendom in Dublin
Chesterton’s Account of Attending the World Eucharistic Conference in 1932
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Lecture 64: Sidelights on New London and Newer York
Essays that Include Accounts of Chesterton’s Second Trip to America
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Lecture 63: Chaucer
Literary Criticism About One of the Giants of English Literature
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Lecture 62: All is Grist
Essays from The Illustrated London News
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Lecture 61: The Resurrection of Rome
Chesterton’s Account of His Trip to Rome in 1929
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Lecture 60: Come to Think of It
Essays from The Illustrated London News
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Lecture 59: Four Faultless Felons
Detective Stories with a Twist
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Lecture 58: GKC as MC
37 Introductions by Chesterton to Other Books
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Lecture 56: The Poet and the Lunatics
Detective Stories Featuring Gabriel Gale
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Lecture 55: Generally Speaking
A Collection of Essays from The Illustrated London News
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Lecture 54: Robert Louis Stevenson
Chesterton’s Analysis of the Famous Scottish Writer
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Lecture 53: The Judgment of Dr. Johnson
Chesterton’s Play About the Great Samuel Johnson
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Lecture 52: The Secret of Father Brown
The Fourth in the Collection of Mysteries Featuring the Man in Cloth
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Lecture 51: The Collected Poems
Political Poems Written by a Patriot
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Lecture 50: The Return of Don Quixote
Chesterton’s Last Novel
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Lecture 49: The Catholic Church and Conversion
Chesterton’s Reflections on Conversion in General
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Lecture 48: The Queen of Seven Swords
Poetry About the Blessed Virgin Mary
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Lecture 47: The Outline of Sanity
The Textbook for Distributism
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Lecture 46: The Incredulity of Father Brown
The Third Collection of Stories Featuring the Clerical Sleuth
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Lecture 45: William Cobbett
An Introduction to One of Chesterton’s Heroes
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Lecture 44: The Everlasting Man
Chesterton’s Great Book of Apologetics
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Lecture 43: Tales of the Long Bow
Chesterton’s “Distributist Novel”
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Lecture 42: Superstitions of the Sceptic
A Debate with G.G. Coulton, Who Totally Misunderstands the Middle Ages
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Lecture 41: St. Francis of Assisi
The Best Book Ever Written on St. Francis
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Lecture 39: The Man Who Knew Too Much
Detective Stories Featuring Horne Fisher
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Lecture 38: The Ballad of St. Barbara and Other Poems
Chesterton’s Lesser-Known Epic Poem
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Lecture 37: What I Saw in America
Chesterton’s Account of His 1921 Trip to America
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Lecture 36: Eugenics and Other Evils
The Case Against a Scientifically-Designed Society
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Lecture 35: The New Jerusalem
Chesterton’s Account of His Trip to the Holy Land
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Lecture 34: The Uses of Diversity
Essays from Various Sources
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Lecture 33: The Superstition of Divorce
Chesterton’s Prophetic Views About Marriage and Family
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Lecture 32: Irish Impressions
Chesterton’s First Major Trip to Ireland
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Lecture 30: A Short History of England
Chesterton’s Complete and Cohesive Story of England
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Lecture 29: The Appetite of Tyranny
World War 1 Propaganda
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Lecture 28: Collected Poems
How Lepanto Found Its Way Into Print
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Lecture 27: The Wisdom of Father Brown
The Second Collection of the Priest-Detective
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Lecture 26: The Flying Inn
A Rollicking Novel About Prohibition, Filled with Drinking Songs
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Lecture 24: The Victorian Age in Literature
Literary Criticism of Nineteenth-Century English Writers
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Lecture 23: A Miscellany of Men
Essays from The Daily News
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Lecture 21: The Ballad of the White Horse
The Last Great Epic Poem in the English Language
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Lecture 20: The Innocence of Father Brown
The First Collection of Father Brown Stories
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Lecture 19: Appreciations and Criticisms
Introductions to Each of Charles Dickens’ Novels
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Lecture 18: William Blake
A Masterful Exploration of the Eighteenth-Century Mystic
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Lecture 17: Alarms and Discursions
Essays from The Daily News
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Lecture 16: What’s Wrong with the World
The Title Says it All
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Lecture 15: The Ball and the Cross
The Story of a Duel and a Debate
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Lecture 14: Tremendous Trifles
Essays Originally from The Daily News
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Lecture 13: George Bernard Shaw
A Thorough Analysis of Shaw
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Lecture 11: All Things Considered
Essays on “All Things”
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Lecture 10: The Man Who Was Thursday
Chesterton’s Cosmic Detective Story
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Lecture 9: Charles Dickens
The Best Work of Literary Criticism Ever Written
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Lecture 8: Heretics
Leading Thinkers of Chesterton’s Day and Why They are Wrong
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Lecture 7: The Club of Queer Trades
Chesterton’s Send-Up of Sherlock Holmes
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Lecture 6: The Napoleon of Notting Hill
Chesterton’s First Novel
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Lecture 5: G.F. Watts
Chesterton’s Appreciation of the Now-Forgotten Painter
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Lecture 4: Robert Browning
Chesterton’s Appreciation of the Poet: On a Happy Man
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Lecture 3: Twelve Types (and Varied Types)
Chesterton’s Second Book of Essays on Historical and Literary Figures
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