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La saggezza di padre Brown, pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1914, segna il ritorno del piccolo prete dell’Essex, un goffo omino con la faccia rotonda e l’espressione assente, ancora impegnato a risolvere...
L’ incredulità di padre Brown, segna il grande ritorno dell’acuto e goffo pretino nato dalla penna di G.K. Chesterton. La raccolta viene pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1926, dodici anni dopo la precedente,...
Giovani idee è un’appassionante miscellanea di saggi di G.K. Chesterton: gli articoli vennero pubblicati su The Illustrated London News tra il 1922 e il 1928. Ogni scritto coglie aspetti originali del...
Padre Brown è alla sua prima apparizione e, oltre a risolvere alcuni casi che vedono per protagonista Flambeau, il ladro più famoso d’Europa, riesce a convincere quest’ultimo a cambiare vita. Ma anche...
Un saggio sul matrimonio e contro le false illusioni del divorzio, firmato dall'indimenticabile autore di Padre Brown. Per Chesterton il matrimonio "non è un'indagine, o un esperimento, o un incidente"?;...
Ein Detektiv....Eine geheime Gesellschaft...und eine außerordentliche Entdeckung.
Due to close relationships with the leading political figures in the land, Fisher knows too much about the private politics behind the public politics of the day. This knowledge is a burden to him because...
Petites Choses formidables est sans doute l'un des recueils d'essais les plus célèbres de Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936). L'auteur se promène avec légèreté parmi les villes de France et d'Allemagne...
La Chose, c’est l’Église catholique, « poursuivie, d’époque en époque, par une haine déraisonnable qui change perpé¬tuellement de raison », et à laquelle Gilbert Keith Chesterton se convertit en 1922....
Um dos ensaios mais fecundos de G. K. Chesterto sobre as bases ideárias da Alemanha na Primeira Guerra Mundial.Analisando os eventos iniciais da Primeira Guerra Mundial, as pretensões não somente bélicas...
Première parution : L'Âge d'Homme, 1985 Traduction revue et corrigée Qu'y a-t-il de commun entre une course infernale le long d'une digue aux flancs escarpés, un gorille assassin, dix tasses de café prétendument...
Histoire d’une âme, « autobiographie débraillée », cet essai inclassable n’a d’autre prédécesseur que son livre-frère, Hérétiques, paru trois ans plus tôt. Découvert par Paul Claudel, qui en traduisit...
Nul autre n'a son pareil pour sonder l'âme humaine, ses ressorts et ses méandres. Nul autre ne sait aussi bien mettre le doigt sur les petites faiblesses et en même temps la grandeur de l'âme humaine....
In 'The Ball and the Cross' by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, readers are taken on a captivating journey that explores themes of faith, reason, and conflict. Set in late 19th century England, this novel follows...
Gilbert Keith Chesterton's 'Manalive' is a whimsical and thought-provoking novel that combines elements of mystery, comedy, and philosophy. Set in a boarding house where the vibrant protagonist, Innocent...
In una locanda fuori mano nei boschi, padre Brown si trova a indagare su un caso bizzarrissimo: un anziano è stato trafitto con un’antica spada e insieme impiccato a un albero. Tutti volevano bene alla...
Nella Croce azzurra fa la sua prima apparizione Padre Brown, protagonista di molti romanzi e racconti gialli di Chesterton, il prete-investigatore che risolve i casi grazie alle raffinate esperienze psicologiche...
In this collection of papers the author, in his characteristically discursive fashion, gives his impressions of the Irish character as an almost paradoxical combination of visionary dreamer and practical...
A collection of a half-dozen stories. Only those persons who have contrived some unusual means of earning a livelihood are eligible for membership in the Club of Queer Trades. One member of this club...
The story begins with a theological discussion in an airship, whose owner, Lucifer, nearly runs it against the ball and the cross which surmount St. Paul's, London. Here he leaves the other occupant of...
Every new volume of Chesterton's essays seems more brilliant, breezily humorous, and astonishingly clever than the last. Nor must one hastily conclude that the author is not profound because he is constantly...
This book may not be, Chesterton says, important as a contribution to history, but it is important as a contribution to biography; as a contribution to the character and the career of the man who wrote...
The small Catholic priest at his best again! "The Wisdom of Father Brown" is full of tales of crime and discovery, clues and false leads and all the rest of the thrilling material which will make any...
In this volume Mr. Chesterton has tackled with his customary gaiety of heart and uncanny shrewdness of eye and hand no less a trinity than socialism, woman's suffrage, and the new education. He begins...
With Father Brown the author has entered upon a new literary field in a series of detective stories. Strange to say, his hero is not a Sherlock Holmes or a Lecoq, but a gentle little parish priest who...
The Flying Inn may be briefly characterised as a narrative comic opera. It follows the Gilbertian formula of satirising actual anomalies by carrying them out quite logically to burlesque extremes; and...
Mr. Chesterton is such a past-master in sophistries and casuistry, such a juggler of paradoxes, such an adept in the arts whereby the brilliant and quick-witted pull the wool over the eyes of their less...
'The Superstition of Divorce" stroke a timely note in treating of this difficult subject with logic and a clear exposition of the historical background of the institution of marriage! Witty and epigrammatic...
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