G Chesterton: 442 books

Las dos grandes obsesiones de Chesterton, el arte y la religión, se reúnen en esta colección de ensayos que nacieron como reseñas literarias y acabaron convirtiéndose en un recorrido por lo bueno y lo superior. Así, los personajes glosados por Chesterton en este volumen, se dividen en dos categorías,...

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 1936), was an acclaimed author, poet, philosopher, and Christian apologist. Chesterton Day by Day has a passage from Chesterton for each day of the year, and holidays. A table of contents is included.

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...

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...

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...

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.

"How great is God – beyond our understanding!" ~ Job 36:26    The Book of Job is one of the most celebrated pieces of biblical literature, probing profound questions about faith. It is a beautifully written work, combining two literary forms, framing forty chapters...

The original whodunits were the locked room mysteries, a sub-genre of the detective mystery in which a crime is committed—almost always murder— in a location that no intruder could have entered or left, e.g., a locked room. There have been many ingenious twists on the motif since it first flourished...

“Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.” - Sun Tzu. Three separate eye-witness accounts of the Hugh Glass bear attack story, a Civil War diary from a POW incarcerated in the notorious prison Andersonville, Henry Bradley’s classic study The...

The delightful debut of G. K. Chesterton’s most famous literary creation In his day, Flambeau was a legend of the underworld. Even now, his old confederates remember with pride the Tyrolean Dairy scheme, in which he built a thriving milk business despite owning not a single cow. But today...

Inhalte: Kriminalerzählungen - Pater-Brown-Geschichten Der Mann, der Donnerstag war Eine Nachtmahr Der Anklagende Menschenskind Die Rätsel des Innozenz Smith u. v. m.

Read his essay on gargoyles. "Realism is romantiscism that's lost its way..." Good stuff!

“Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.” - Sun Tzu. Three separate eye-witness accounts of the Hugh Glass bear attack story, a Civil War diary from a POW incarcerated in the notorious prison Andersonville, Henry Bradley’s classic study The Story...

El hombre que fue Jueves, una de las novelas más populares del escritor y polemista británico G.K. Chesterton, pertenece a una variedad literaria peculiar.