Finding Your Needle in Chesterton’s Haystack

A Peek at Joseph W. Sprug’s Remarkable 1966 Index to 92 Books by Larger-than-Life G.K. Chesterton

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
—G.K. Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was big in every way. He, of course, was simply big, standing six feet four inches and weighing nearly three hundred pounds. But the largeness of his presence on…