Paradox, Progress & Public Life

Paradox, Progress & Public Life is a curated digital library centered on essays and nonfiction on society, culture, literature, history, religion, technological progress, and public life.

A lively essay-and-ideas collection about society, culture, politics, literature, religion, technology, history, and the pressures of modern life. The pairing of Chesterton and Wells creates a deliberately contrasting intellectual shelf rather than a single-school anthology.

Designed for readers who want a coherent collection rather than an undifferentiated archive, this edition brings together 45 individually listed works in one themed library.

📚 Includes:

• Leo Tolstoy — G. K. Chesterton, Edward Garnett, and G. H. Perris
• London — G. K. Chesterton
• Lord Kitchener — G. K. Chesterton
• Magic — G. K. Chesterton
• Manalive — G. K. Chesterton
• A Miscellany of Men — G. K. Chesterton
• The Napoleon of Notting Hill — G. K. Chesterton
• The New Jerusalem — G. K. Chesterton
• Orthodoxy — G. K. Chesterton
• Poems — G. K. Chesterton
• Robert Browning — G. K. Chesterton
• A Short History of England — G. K. Chesterton
• St. Francis of Assisi — G. K. Chesterton
• The Superstition of Divorce — G. K. Chesterton
• Tales of the Long Bow — G. K. Chesterton
• Tennyson — G. K. Chesterton and Richard Garnett
• Thackeray — G. K. Chesterton and Lewis Melville
• Tremendous Trifles — G. K. Chesterton
• Twelve Types — G. K. Chesterton
• The Uses of Diversity: A Book of Essays — G. K. Chesterton
• Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays — G. K. Chesterton
• Varied Types — G. K. Chesterton
• The Victorian Age in Literature — G. K. Chesterton
• What I Saw in America — G. K. Chesterton
• What's Wrong with the World — G. K. Chesterton
• Washington and the Riddle of Peace — H. G. Wells
• The New Teaching of History — H. G. Wells
• The Story of a Great Schoolmaster — H. G. Wells
• Mr. Belloc Objects to The Outline of History — H. G. Wells
• The Time Machine — H. G. Wells
• The War of the Worlds — H. G. Wells
• The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance — H. G. Wells
• The Island of Doctor Moreau — H. G. Wells
• Tales of Space and Time — H. G. Wells
• The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories — H. G. Wells
• The Red Room — H. G. Wells
• The World Set Free — H. G. Wells
• The New Machiavelli — H. G. Wells
• The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories — H. G. Wells
• The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents — H. G. Wells
• The Sleeper Awakes — H. G. Wells
• The First Men in the Moon — H. G. Wells
• Twelve Stories and a Dream — H. G. Wells
• The War in the Air — H. G. Wells
• A Modern Utopia — H. G. Wells