Heretics
1905
Chesterton's 1905 collection of twenty essays arguing against the leading opinions of his day, taking on Kipling, Shaw, Wells, George Moore and Whistler by name. He wrote it to attack what his contemporaries believed rather than how they wrote, and answered the critics who asked for his own position with Orthodoxy three years later.
- Introductory Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy
- On the negative spirit
- On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Making the World Small
- Mr. Bernard Shaw
- Mr. H. G. Wells and the Giants
- Christmas and the Aesthetes
- Omar and the Sacred Vine
- The Mildness of the Yellow Press
- The Moods of Mr. George Moore
- On Sandals and Simplicity
- Science and the Savages
- Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson
- Celts and Celtophiles
- On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family
- On Smart Novelists and the Smart Set
- On Mr. McCabe and a Divine Frivolity
- On the Wit of Whistler
- The Fallacy of the Young Nation
- Slum Novelists and the Slums
- Concluding Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy