Chesterton: 598 books

Chesterton scrive questo testo nel 1923, quando non è passato nemmeno un anno dal suo passaggio al cattolicesimo. Ma, come dice egli stesso, la figura di Francesco gli era familiare fin dall’infanzia. Non è una biografia di stile classico, la sua; quest’opera è piuttosto un’introduzione biografica...

Convertitosi al cattolicesimo nel 1922, Chesterton pubblicò questo «bozzetto» su san Francesco nel 1923, come se dalla conversione del Santo di Assisi traesse uno spirituale alimento per la propria. Per Chesterton san Francesco era soprattutto un uomo innamorato di Dio e della Creazione, un poeta...

Nel giugno del 1910 Gilbert K. Chesterton dava alle stampe la prima edizione di Cosa è sbagliato nel mondo; un testo rivoluzionario che con lucida ragionevolezza e disarmante ironia getta luce sulla condizione moderna dell’uomo e della società, riguardo a cui si chiama sempre in causa la parola...

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...

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.  

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.  

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (Londres, 29 de mayo de 1874 - Beaconsfield, 14 de junio de 1936), más conocido como G. K. Chesterton, fue un escritor y periodista británico de inicios del siglo XX. Cultivó, entre otros géneros, el ensayo, la narración, la biografía, la lírica, el periodismo y el libro de viajes.

El Padre J. Brown es un personaje de ficción creado por el novelista ingles Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874 1936). Es el protagonista de unas cincuenta historias cortas recopiladas posteriormente en cinco libros. Para crear este personaje Chesterton se inspiro en el Padre John OConnor (1870 - 1952).

The Man Who Knew Too Much and other stories is a book of detective stories by English writer G. K. Chesterton first published by Cassell and Company in 1922. The book contains twelve mystery stories, the first eight of which are about The Man Who Knew Too Much, while the final four are individual...

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a novel by G. K. Chesterton, first published in 1908. The book has been referred to as a metaphysical thriller. Its importance was recognized in its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books as the thirty-second volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy...

Immortalized in these famous stories, G. K. Chesterton's endearing amateur sleuth has entertained countless generations of readers. For, as his admirers know, Father Brown's cherubic face and unworldly simplicity, his glasses and his huge umbrella, disguise a quite uncanny understanding of the criminal...

An enduring collection of moral and social commentary from one of the twentieth century’s most original thinkers This groundbreaking work epitomizes why G. K. Chesterton is considered one of the pithiest and most versatile philosophers of his era. An anthology of his early writings, What’s...

In this important work, Chesterton examines and analyzes the art of the revered British painter and sculptor George Frederick Watts. In writing as beautiful as it is incisive, Chesterton pens an enduring portrait of the artist who was best friends with Tennyson and whose allegorical paintings vividly captured many luminaries of his day.

G. K. Chesterton's biographical essays provide unique portraits of 12 of Europe's most defining figures. Written by one of the world's master essayists, this collection richly expresses Chesterton's thoughts on Charlotte Brontë, William Morris, Byron, Pope, St. Francis of Assisi, Rostand, Charles...