Chesterton: 598 books

An entertaining collection drawn from G. K. Chesterton’s early years as a newspaper columnist This compilation of “fleeting sketches,” written by G. K. Chesterton while he was a columnist for the Daily News, contains the humor, foresight, and intellectual curiosity that quickly made the...

G. K. Chesterton’s highly influential treatise on one of the most controversial topics of the early twentieth century When G. K. Chesterton first published Eugenics and Other Evils in 1922, he seemed to be the lone voice of reason against the fashionable concept of selectively breeding a...

This antiquarian book contains Gilbert Keith Chesterton's 1926 thesis, "The Outline of Sanity". Within this famous book Chesterton explores the subjects of poverty, concentration of wealth, work, agriculture, machinery, and capital gain. Chesterton championed wealth distribution, but was...

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936), was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox". Time magazine has observed of his writing...

La eugenesia y otras desgracias recoge una serie de artículos escritos por Chesterton en torno a la aprobación de la Mental Deficiency Act de 1913, que limitaba los derechos y libertades de personas a quienes los "expertos", aplicando la selección natural darwiniana, clasificaban como...

• Los tres instrumentos de la muerte • El árbol del orgullo • La pagoda de Babel Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Londres, 1874 - Beaconsfield, 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.

Estaría bien poder citar a Chesterton reproduciendo lo que este hubiese dicho de... Chesterton. Aseguraría una frase brillante. Ante ese imposible, solo cabe señalar su agudeza, su ingenio, su independencia, su sentido del humor, su amor por la verdad. En estas Impresiones de Irlanda, el gran escritor...

Estamos viviendo un renacimiento de la figura y la obra de Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936). Por todas partes surgen asociaciones chestertonianas y se reeditan con gran éxito sus obras fundamentales. Por este motivo, se está rescatando también el resto de su obra, aparentemente menor, pero...

Magic is a play by G. K. Chesterton presented by Kenelm Foss at The Little Theatre, London, on November 7, 1913. The play went on to influence Ingmar Bergman's film The Face. Gilbert Keith Chesterton, (1874 – 1936), was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator,...

The fourth collection of Father Brown stories featuring the ingenious amateur detective. Ahead of a new series of the popular BBC adaptation starring Mark Williams, all five of Chesterton's original Father Brown books have been republished with charming and collectible Penguin covers. 'You...

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936), was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox". Time magazine has observed of his writing...

Gilbert K. Chesterton dedicò questa importante biografia letteraria finora inedita in Italia a Robert Louis Stevenson, l’autore de L’isola del tesoro e de Lo strano caso del Dr. Jekyll e di Mr. Hyde. Da questo straordinario saggio, Stevenson emerge come un testimone inconsapevole di verità,...

In G. K. Chesterton’s 1914 sequel to The Innocence of Father Brown, we find the tenacious little priest hounding thieves, traitors, and killers throughout England, and even to France and Italy. Here are twelve more cases featuring Father Brown, a priest turned detective who combines philosophical...

In 1911, G. K. Chesterton published this first collection of twelve short stories featuring Father Brown, a priest turned detective who combines philosophical and spiritual reasoning with scientific observation to solve crimes. In doing so, Chesterton laid the foundation for future detective figures...