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The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton, Vol. 14: Short Stories, Fairy Tales, Mystery Stories, Illustrations

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If you're like me, you'll admit Chesterton did occasionally make a mistake, and even some howlers, but he never did any poor work. Since I'm biased, I took a star off the review, but that may not be fair.

Most of this book is new to me. Some of the detective stories have been printed elsewhere, but not all. There are a couple of Father Brown stories that were probably held back by Chesterton because they weren't strong enough. There are incomplete stories, and many more completed ones. If you don't like G.K.Chesterton, I can make no promises. But if you find that, as he wrote of Dickens, his stories are simply lengths of fabric cut from a substance called Chesterton, you'll probably find a lot to like.

This is a good quality, well-put-together book that brings into one place much of Chesterton's short fiction, most of which was published in periodicals or never published. This is the first time most of these stories have been published in book form, if I'm not mistaken.