Chesterton: 598 books

Four Faultless Felons includes The Moderate Murderer, The Honest Quack, The Ecstatic Thief, and The Loyal Traitor. Chesterton's protagonist's faultless crimes include: murder, fraud, theft, and treason. They are motivated by good intentions of course, by altruism and virtues.

A collection of newspaper articles by acclaimed author G. K. Chesterton, on a variety of topics, from society, religion, history, science and politics.

A collection of essays and articles in which Chesterton explores and discusses diverse topics, such as labour, communism, prison, the media, and the Church.

Tom Masefield has just graduated from Oxford University, but he chooses to take his first teaching job, not in England, but in the small town of Meadowvale, Saskatchewan, far away from everything and everyone he has ever known. Kelly Reimer grew up in Meadowvale, but has been nursing in Jasper...

Magic is an excellent philosophical play about a conjuror whose tricks throw an entire household into turmoil. Chesterton poses this fundamental question: Who is the bigger zealot? Someone who believes in miracles, or someone who goes to whatever lengths necessary not to? (Goodreads)

“Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority. That’s exactly what has happened here.” — Horne Fisher in The Man Who Knew Too Much   From the creator of the Father Brown mysteries come nine short stories, eight of which trace the...

Antiquated. Unimaginative. Repressive. We've all heard these common reactions to orthodox Christian beliefs. Even Christians themselves are guilty of the tendency to discard historic Christianity. As Charles Colson writes in the foreword, "Evangelicals, despite their professed belief in the Bible,...

Tannenbaum, heise Schokolade, Schnee draußen und eine spannende Krimi-Sammlung, die Sie in Ihrem warmen Sessel lesen können. Gibt es überhaupt eine bessere Art und Weise, die Feiertage zu verbringen? Inhalt: Der blaue Karfunkel (Arthur Conan Doyle) Holmes' erstes Abenteuer (Arthur Conan Doyle)...

In The Victorian Age in Literature, published in 1913, Chesterton leaps into a concise overview of the outstanding writers of this era—discussing such poets as Robert Browning, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Matthew Arnold as well as the great novelists Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Charles Dickens,...

“Love is not blind...love is vigilant.” An outspoken patriot, G. K. Chesterton criticized his country as he thought necessary. In this 1915 collection of pieces written while he toiled for the War Propaganda Bureau, he takes England to task for tolerating Germany’s pre-war actions, and also for its treatment of the Irish.

In Eugenics and Other Evils (1922), subtitled “An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized Society,” Chesterton bravely battles with what he ridicules as the “Feeble-Minded Bill," a measure that would support a British political policy of sterilization and other methods of social cleansing...

"What is America?" Chesterton asks in the opening chapter of this perceptive and high-spirited book, originally published in 1922. In due course, he meditates on the nature of the American hotel, the Broadway theater, and the American businessman. He also touches upon politics, cities, fads, and...

Un romanzo visionario, paradossale, dissacrante. Per Chesterton il futuro è contrassegnato da un controllo esasperato sulla popolazione e da una sistematica privazione di libertà, un dominio sull'uomo dettato dai grandi potentati economici. Un "mondo nuovo" in cui anche l'alcool è bandito....

25 FAVORITE CHRISTIAN NOVELS Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero by Henryk Sienkiewicz In His Steps by Charles M. Sheldon The Ball and the Cross by G. K. Chesterton The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories by Mark Twain The Story of...