G Chesterton: 442 books

Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—either professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder. The detective genre began around the same time as speculative fiction and other genre fiction in the mid-nineteenth...

G. K. Chesterton was a great admirer of Charles Dickens, and wrote a noted critique of Dickens' works expressing his opinion in his own inimitable style.

In Beacon House zieht ein neuer Mieter ein. Es ist ein Sonderling namens Innozenz Smith. Wie Mary Poppins wird dieser Mann von einem großen Wind begleitet, und er haucht dem Haushalt mit seinen Spielen und Mätzchen neues Leben ein. 'Menschenskind' (engl. Original: 'Manalive', 1912) ist ein Buch...

Der Roman 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....

El Padre Brown es el más famoso personaje de G.K. Chesterton, un curita católico rural cuya perspicacia y conocimiento de la naturaleza humana le permite resolver los más difíciles casos policíacos. Los relatos del Padre Brown se publicaron entre 1911 y 1935. Este volumen recoge doce famosos...

Toda la vida de Stevenson está condicionada por una cierta complejidad que cierta ternura por la lengua inglesa nos veda llamar compleja. Era una especie de paradoja, en cuya virtud estaba él a la vez más y menos protegido que otros hombres, como alguien que cruza los caminos más salvajes del mundo en un carromato cubierto.

This volume contains a collection of essays written by G. K. Chesterton. These essays were originally published in the 'Daily News', and cover a range of topics ranging from Gargoyles to strolls around Marble Arch. The essays contained herein include: The Surrender of a Cockney, The Nightmare, The...

Toda la vida de Stevenson está condicionada por una cierta complejidad que cierta ternura por la lengua inglesa nos veda llamar compleja. Era una especie de paradoja, en cuya virtud estaba él a la vez más y menos protegido que otros hombres, como alguien que cruza los caminos más salvajes del mundo en un carromato cubierto.

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown mysteries, BBC One Daytime has commissioned a new 10-part drama series for January 2013 to bring the priest-turned-detective back to life. BBC Books will be publishing a new edition of the original and complete short stories to...

This Golden Deer Classics compilation contains the following classic fantasy works: Phantastes - George MacDonald The Water-Babies - Charles Kingsley Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll Through the Looking Glass (And What Alice Found There) - Lewis Carroll Lilith - George MacDonald The...

Fr Damien de Veuster – or, as he is now known, St Damien of Molokai – is one of the better-known examples of practical Christianity. His heroic life amongst the lepers of Molokai, and his eventual death amongst them, from leprosy, hardly, or so one would think, admits of criticism from even the...

According to Chesterton, "once Christ had Risen, it was inevitable that Aristotle should rise again." St. Thomas Aquinas provided that marvelous synthesis, which could only strengthen the believer's affirmation of the reality and goodness of created being. This book is a splendid introduction to both...

Have you wondered how the great detectives solved their cases? In The Secret of Father Brown, while visiting Flambeau’s house Father Brown meets a curious American who has to know as some of his countrymen think Father Brown is using mystical powers. The fourth of the Father Brown detective story...

The amiable detective-priest Father Brown, who brought Chesterton to a wider public first appeared in The Innocence of Father Brown and remains one of the best-known names in crime fiction.These two novels were first published in 1911 and 1914 and contain 12 short stories each.