Chesterton: 598 books

Collected here, in one volume are Gilbert K. Chesterton¿s most influential works of fiction. Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and commons, the horizon of which was fringed with the far-off woods of the famous estate of Torwood...

G.K. Chesterton was an English writer often referred to as "the prince of paradox."  Chesterton wrote on a variety of different subjects including mystery fiction, religion, and literary critiques.  Chesterton is best known for creating the priest-detective Father Brown and the popular book Orthodoxy.  

El misterioso joven Basil Howe aparece en la vida de las hermanas Grey. Las tres hermanas pronto comenzarán a sentir afecto por el excéntrico personaje. Basil Howe, que hasta ahora permanecía inédita en español, es la primera novela que escribió Chesterton...

Aunque existe una primera version, de fecha tan temprana como 1902, bajo el titulo de Twelve types, la edicion definitiva de estos veinte pequeños ensayos biograficos, plenamente chestertonianos, es de 1908. Publicados ahora por vez primera entre nosotros, en la excelente traduccion de Victoria Leon,...

La sal de la vida (*The spice of life*) fue publicado por vez primera en 1964 y es una muy lograda miscelánea reunida por su secretaria e insigne chestertoniana, Dorothy Collins. Los artículos proceden de muy diversas publicaciones a lo largo de más de veinte años y el que da título al volumen...

This book contains several tables of HTML content that will make reading easier. The first table of contents lists all the titles included in this volume. This book contains the following works, classified by author: In a Grove by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa The Innocence of Father Brown by Gilbert Keith...

Dieses eBook: "Der Mann, der Donnerstag war (Politthriller)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. The Man Who Was Thursday von 1908 (Der Mann, der Donnerstag war) ist eine politische Satire, die der Phantastischen...

Collected here, in one volume are Gilbert K. Chesterton's most influential works of fiction. Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and commons, the horizon of which was fringed with the far-off woods of the famous estate of Torwood...

Setting out to pen a popular history book “from the standpoint of a member of the public,” Chesterton more than achieved his goal. Moving cohesively through England’s history, Chesterton uses broad strokes but not without his characteristic wit and style. While trounced by some critics, George...

Chesterton again allows us to accompany Father Brown, preternaturally-unbiased master of human nature, as he stumbles across another series of murders and mysteries. These stories in this series are not as compact as those in other books, notably „The Innocence of Father Brown,” but they have...

The Ballad of the White Horse - This is the full text of G K Chesterton's epic poem about King Alfred the great and the battle of Ethandune or Edington in May 878 AD. This edition of Ballad of the White Horse has been heavily annotated with explanatory notes to help the reader get a true insight...

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) ejemplifica como pocos la idea común y por tanto quizá descabellada del escritor como individuo genial. Hombre de genio y de talento incluso desmesurado, su obra la apreciación será de Borges "no encierra una sola página que no ofrezca una felicidad"....

Der Mann, der Donnerstag war ist eine politische Satire, die der Phantastischen Literatur zugerechnet werden kann: Ein Komplott anarchistischer Terroristen am Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts entwickelt sich darin, unter zunehmender Verfremdung der Wirklichkeit, in ein verrückt-göttliches Spektakel....

'It would not be fair to record the adventures of Father Brown, without admitting that he was once involved in a grave scandal...It happened in a picturesque Mexican road-house of rather loose repute...' After many years in the priesthood, Father Brown knows human nature and is not afraid of...