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 Esthetes

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

Heretics, a collection of essays by G. K. Chesterton, critiques several prominent figures and ideas of his time. The book is marked by the author's clear, incisive wit and clever rhetoric as he challenges the philosophies that he sees as dangerous to society.