And the sea rises higher. Though not written for a scholarly audience, his biographies of authors and historical figures like Charles Dickens and St. Francis of Assisi often contain brilliant insights into their subjects. His Father Brown mystery stories, written between 1911 and 1936, are still being read and adapted for television. His politics fitted with his deep distrust of concentrated wealth and power of any sort. Though not know as a political thinker, his political influence has circled the world.
Heretics belongs to yet another area of literature at which Chesterton excelled.
A fun-loving and gregarious man, he was nevertheless troubled in his adolescence by thoughts of suicide. In Christianity he found the answers to the dilemmas and paradoxes he saw in life. Orthodoxy is also available as electronic text. During his life he published 69 books and at least another ten based on his writings have been published after his death. Many of those books are still in print.