Chesterton: 598 books

G.K. Chesterton's essays on big literary names and their influences on literature, featuring: Charlotte Bronte, Stevenson, Leo Tolstoy, Ruskin, William Morris, Byron, Thomas Carlyle, Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and many others.

The Ballad of the White Horse is poetry by G. K. Chesterton about the idealized exploits of the Saxon King Alfred the Great, published in 1911. Written in ballad form, the work is usually considered one of the last great traditional epic poems ever written in the English language. The poem narrates...

G. K. Chesterton's second novel chronicles a hot dispute between two Scotsmen, a Roman Catholic, and an atheist, whose fanatically held opinions inspire a host of comic adventures. The story's allegorical levels vigorously explore the debate between theism and atheism.

Father Brown is a fictional character created by eng novelist G. K. Chesterton, who stars in 51 detective short stories. This collection features the following twelve stories. The Absence of Mr Glass, The Paradise of Thieves, The Duel of Dr Hirsch, The Man in the Passage, The Head of Caesar, The Purple...

"The Club of Queer Trades" is a collection of stories by Gilbert Keith Chesterton first published in 1905. Each story in the collection is centred on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means (a "queer trade", using the word "queer" in the...

The end of the longest room at Seawood Abbey was full of light; for the walls were almost made of windows and it projected upon a terraced part of the garden above the park on an almost cloudless morning. Murrel, called Monkey for some reason that everybody had forgotten, and Olive Ashley were taking...

Snapshots of twentieth-century Europe and the world, the essays in A Miscellany of Men cover a range of topics, from literature and philosophy to history and social criticism. Included, among others, are “The Suffragist,” “The Poet and the Cheese,” “The Fool,” and “The Elf of Japan.”...

When Innocent Smith arrives at Beacon House, a London boarding establishment, he turns the lives of the residents and staff upside-down with his contagious enthusiasms.  But when he is suddenly accused of the most terrible crimes, it seems Smith is not so Innocent after all.  Yet in the works of Chesterton, nothing is as it seems . . .

Chesterton marvels at all of the little moments that makes up our lives in this whimsical collection of essays, each of which originally appeared in London’s Daily News. He allows readers a new way to look at life; essays such as “A Piece of Chalk,” “The Shop of Ghosts,” and “On Lying in Bed,” are just a few of the gems in this delightful treasury.   

The Classic Fantasy Collection brings together 20 of the greatest fantasy novels ever written.  Featuring:  Phantastes, by George MacDonald The Water-Babies, by Charles Kingsley Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll Lilith, by George...

Le nommé Jeudi : un cauchemar est un roman de l'écrivain anglais Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936).   Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique.   Résumé...

Edition enrichie (préface, notes) « J’essaie d’entrer dans le meurtrier […], pensant ses pensées, luttant avec ses passions, jusqu’à me retrouver tapi, aux aguets, dans la posture même de la haine qui l’habite. » Telle est la méthode du père Brown, le prêtre détective qui...

Douze enquêtes du plus déroutant des enquêteurs de la fiction policière : le Père Brown. Le père Brown est un des personnages les plus célèbres - et le plus déroutant - de la fiction policière. Ce prêtre catholique d'une petite paroisse de l'Essex, petit et rondouillard, avenant, n'a rien...

L'actrice et l'alibi est une nouvelle extraite de l'ouvrage Les Enquêtes du père Brown de Chesterton, paru chez Omnibus le 07 mai 2008.