Chesterton 101 Lecture Series

An introductory course on Chesterton's works featuring essays by Dale Ahlquist, president of the American Chesterton Society

Chesterton 101
A Lecture Series by Dale Ahlquist

Lecture 1 | Greybeards at Play and The Wild Knight

Lecture 2 | The Defendant

Lecture 3 | Twelve Types (and Varied Types)

Lecture 4 | Robert Browning

Lecture 5 | G.F.Watts

Lecture 6 | The Napoleon of Notting Hill

Lecture 7 | The Club of Queer Trades

Lecture 8 | Heretics

Lecture 9 | Charles Dickens

Lecture 10 | The Man Who Was Thursday

Lecture 11 | All Things Considered

Lecture 12 | Orthodoxy

Lecture 13 | George Bernard Shaw

Lecture 14 | Tremendous Trifles

Lecture 15 | The Ball and the Cross

Lecture 16 | What’s Wrong with the World

Lecture 17 | Alarms and Discursions

Lecture 18 | William Blake

Lecture 19 | Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens

Lecture 20 | The Innocence of Father Brown

Lecture 21 | The Ballad of the White Horse

Lecture 22 | Manalive

Lecture 23 | A Miscellany of Men

Lecture 24 | The Victorian Age in Literature

Lecture 25 | Chesterton’s play Magic

Lecture 26 | The Flying Inn

Lecture 27 | The Wisdom of Father Brown

Lecture 28 | Collected Poems

Lecture 29 | The Appetite of Tyranny, Letters to an Old Garibaldian, The Crimes of England

Lecture 30 | A Short History of England

Lecture 31 | Utopia of Usurers

Lecture 32 | Irish Impressions

Lecture 33 | The Superstition of Divorce

Lecture 34 | The Uses of Diversity

Lecture 35 | The New Jerusalem

Lecture 36 | Eugenics and Other Evils

Lecture 37 | What I Saw in America

Lecture 38 | The Ballad of St. Barbara and other Poems

Lecture 39 | The Man Who Knew Too Much

Lecture 40 | Fancies vs. Fads

Lecture 41 | St. Francis of Assisi

Lecture 42 | Superstitions of the Sceptic

Lecture 43 | Tales of the Long Bow

Lecture 44 | The Everlasting Man

Lecture 45 | William Cobbett

Lecture 46 | The Incredulity of Father Brown

Lecture 47 | The Outline of Sanity

Lecture 48 | The Queen of Seven Swords

Lecture 49 | The Catholic Church and Conversion

Lecture 50 | The Return of Don Quixote

Lecture 51 | The Collected Poems

Lecture 52 | The Secret of Father Brown

Lecture 53 | The Judgment of Dr. Johnson

Lecture 54 | Robert Louis Stevenson

Lecture 55 | Generally Speaking

Lecture 56 | The Poet and the Lunatics

Lecture 57 | The Thing

Lecture 58 | GKC as MC

Lecture 59 | Four Faultless Felons

Lecture 60 | Come To Think of It

Lecture 61 | The Resurrection of Rome

Lecture 62 | All is Grist

Lecture 63 | Chaucer

Lecture 64 | Sidelights

Lecture 65 | Christendom in Dublin

Lecture 66 | All I Survey

Lecture 67 | St. Thomas Aquinas

Lecture 68 | Avowals and Denials

Lecture 69 | Scandal of Fr. Brown

Lecture 70 | The Well and the Shallows

Lecture 71 | As I Was Saying

Lecture 72 | Chesterton’s First Book?

Lecture 73 | Autobiography

Lecture 74 | Paradoxes of Mr Pond

Lecture 75 | The Coloured Lands

Lecture 76 | The End of the Armistice

Lecture 77 | The Common Man

Lecture 78 | Unexpected Delights: The Surprise

Lecture 79 | Literature about Literature: A Handful of Authors

Lecture 80 | Notes from an Island: The Glass Walking Stick

Lecture 81 | A Pre-quel to Orthodoxy: Lunacy and Letters

Lecture 82 | Arrival: Where All Roads Lead

Lecture 83 | The Man Who Was Orthodox: A Selection from the Uncollected Writings of G.K. Chesterton

Lecture 84 | Ending with a Bang: The Spice of Life

Lecture 85 | In Apprehension How Like a God: Chesterton on Shakespeare

Lecture 86 | Windows on the Past and on the Present: The Apostle and the Wild Ducks

Lecture 87 | Hark! Laughter Like a Lion Wakes: The Spirit of Christmas

Lecture 88 | A Library in One Volume: As I Was Saying – A Chesterton Reader

Lecture 89 | Out of the Shadows: Daylight and Nightmare

Lecture 90 | Chesterton’s Pulpit

Lecture 91 | The Boat on a Stormy Sea

Lecture 92 | The Difficulty of Defending the Normal

Lecture 93 | Before and After

Lecture 94 | Laughing in Rhyme