"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."

(Heretics)

This package provides access to the full texts of a selection of G.K. Chesterton's published books. The UTF-8 plain text for each novel was sourced from Project Gutenberg, processed a bit, and is ready for text analysis. Each text is in a character vector with elements of about 70 characters. The package contains:

There is also a function chesterton_books() that returns a tidy data frame of all selected novels.

You can install the development version from Github:

library(devtools)
install_github("bigpas/gkchestertonr")
library(gkchestertonr)