Gilbert-Keith Chesterton - Libros y biografía

In 'Magic' by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, the reader is taken on a captivating journey through the realms of the supernatural and the unexplained. Through a series of thought-provoking essays, Chesterton...

In 'All Things Considered', Gilbert Keith Chesterton presents a collection of essays that blend humor, wit, and deep philosophical insights. Known for his paradoxical style, Chesterton challenges conventional...

In 'The Victorian Age in Literature' by G.K. Chesterton, readers are taken on a journey through the rich literary landscape of the Victorian era. Chesterton explores the works of prominent writers such...

Gilbert Keith Chesterton's 'The Flying Inn' is a satirical novel that follows the adventures of two British men who embark on a journey to save England from prohibition. Filled with humor and wit, Chesterton...

Twelve mysteries featuring Father Brown, the short, stumpy Catholic priest with "uncanny insight into human evil."

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...

Gilbert Keith Chesterton's 'The Flying Inn' is a satirical novel that critiques prohibition and explores themes of traditionalism, freedom, and the absurdities of modern society. Written in Chesterton's...

In "The Man Who Knew Too Much" by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, readers are transported into a thrilling and thought-provoking detective story that combines elements of mystery, suspense, and social commentary....

THE Book of Job is among the other Old Testament Books both a philosophical riddle and a historical riddle. Controversy has long raged about which parts of this epic belong to its original scheme and...

Brilliant, political, historical, social, and topical literary essays. A list of England's crimes is furnished, but they are not those of which she was accused by the Germans. Among the best chapters...

In this volume Mr. Chesterton reprints nearly twenty of the ingenious and brilliant papers which have delighted and puzzled the readers of the London Daily News and Speaker. The subjects are all biographical,...

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...

Mr. G. K. Chesterton, as all the world knows by this time, had the courage of his convictions. He would also, if he had his way, have everyone else possess a similar courage. In his collection of ephemeral...

Mad, perfectly mad, madder than the immortal tea-party of Alice, is the thought while reading this novel, or satire, or caricature, or allegory, or farce, or joke, or whatever it is, which Mr. Chesterton...

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...

Mr. Chesterton was unquestionably one of the most brilliant essayists of his days. He is startingly original, for his ideas are always in opposition to those commonly held; but no matter how unheard of...

Chesterton's characteristics would probably meet with the literary surprise of his life, when, after reading the plain, simple introduction, he would proceed to peruse the pages of Orthodoxy and find...

Mr. Gilbert Chesterton is quite on his own ground in writing essays about about Heretics. Such subjects as Kipling, Shaw, Whistler, H. G. Wells, the new paganism, and the importance of orthodoxy possess...

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...

Chesterton, in his unimitable way, remarks that "the only way to write a popular history is to write it backwards." This is somewhat the method he employs in his book, "A Short History of England," in...

Characteristically brilliant and daring essays on sociological subjects in which is depicted the Utopia of the hard-headed business man, capitalists, and the millionaires who will arrange their own paradise...

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...

William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic...

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...

A fanciful and altogether delightful tale of the doings of Innocent Smith, who reminds himself by every possible shock to the intellect that he is a man alive, walking on two legs. The story is replete...

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...

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...

The Zionists have often spoken about the hoped-for Jewish homeland in Palestine becoming a center whence would emanate, as of old, great ideas and ideals. Such a radiation has already begun, but it is...

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...

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...