Literature, 1870-1914 April 1, 2010. G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) ► Defended Christian orthodoxy ► Anglican  Catholic ► “Distributism” ► One of Britain’s.

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Literature, April 1, 2010

G. K. Chesterton ( ) ► Defended Christian orthodoxy ► Anglican  Catholic ► “Distributism” ► One of Britain’s most popular authors  The Man Who Was Thursday  Father Brown stories

Detective Fiction ► Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ( )—Sherlock Holmes stories ► Agatha Christie ( )  Hercule Poirot  Miss Marple ► Dorothy Sayers ( )  Lord Peter Wimsey  Harriet Vane

Early Science Fiction ► Jules Verne  Journey to the Center of the Earth  Around the World in Eighty Days ► H. G. Wells  The Invisible Man  The Time Machine

Creepy Stuff ► Robert Louis Stevenson  The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ► Bram Stoker  Dracula

“Children’s” Fiction ► Lewis Carroll ► Rudyard Kipling ► J.M. Barrie ► Robert Louis Stevenson

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