Jump to content

The Defendant

From Wikisource
The Defendant (1901)
by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

second impression, 1904

11024The Defendant1901Gilbert Keith Chesterton


The ‘Defences’ of which this volume is composed have appeared in The Speaker, and are here reprinted, after revision and amplification, by permission of the Editor. Portions of ‘The Defence of Publicity’ appeared in The Daily News.

October, 1901.

CONTENTS
PAGE
IN DEFENCE OF A NEW EDITION ix
INTRODUCTION 1
A DEFENCE OF PENNY DREADFULS 8
A DEFENCE OF RASH VOWS 18
A DEFENCE OF SKELETONS 27
A DEFENCE OF PUBLICITY 34
A DEFENCE OF NONSENSE 42
A DEFENCE OF PLANETS 51
A DEFENCE OF CHINA SHEPHERDESSES 59
A DEFENCE OF USEFUL INFORMATION 66
A DEFENCE OF HERALDRY 76
A DEFENCE OF UGLY THINGS 82
A DEFENCE OF FARCE 89
A DEFENCE OF HUMILITY 97
A DEFENCE OF SLANG 105
A DEFENCE OF BABY-WORSHIP 112
A DEFENCE OF DETECTIVE STORIES 118
A DEFENCE OF PATRIOTISM 124

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.


The longest-living author of this work died in 1936, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 87 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse