Gilbert-Keith Chesterton - Libros y biografía

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...

If Mr. Chesterton had been permitted to have his own way this handful of papers would have been sent out under the title of "Gargoyles." Perhaps the publisher foresaw horror upon the faces of really unimaginative...

Gilbert K. Chesterton has kept his finest energies for fashioning the verses and symbolism of this ballad-epic — the story of King Alfred and the Danes. The London Nation said of the book: "We are certainly...

Everyone who was not born a duke and who has not achieved a premiership will congratulate himself after reading these detective stories of crimes among the upper classes. The criminal hunter in the case...

'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...

Before he has turned over half-a-dozen pages of Mr. Chesterton's book, the reader will feel as if he had been out in a high wind. Not, of course, the cold, steady-blowing north-easter that turns your...

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....

Patrick Dalroy, un jeune Irlandais à la force physique peu commune, rentré au pays après une campagne légendaire contre les Turcs, apprend de la bouche de son meilleur ami, que le tyran du Comté s’apprête,...

Il personaggio letterario padre Brown è un presbitero e investigatore, protagonista di oltre cinquanta racconti gialli dello scrittore inglese Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Modellato sulla figura di padre...

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...

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...

Un classique de l'humour anglais, dans la collection Yes you can (Harrap's) : VO intégrale avec traductions en marge pour mieux comprendre le texte original.Niveau avancé

At first read, G.K. Chesterton’s the Man Who Was Thursday is a zany mystery story filled with often surreal twists that turn more traditional thrillers on their ear. Set in a fantastic London where the...

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...

I membri di una setta anarchica hanno fatto una scelta bizzarra decidendo di assumere per maggior sicurezza i nomi dei giorni della settimana, e quando il protagonista di questa storia, Gabril Syme, sceglie...

This contains the first 8 of the 12 stories in the published book The Man Who Knew Too Much and Other Stories. In these 8 detective thrillers, the main protagonist is Horne Fisher. (The omitted four are...

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

Il giardino segreto (The secret garden), pubblicato nel 1911 nell’antologia "The innocence of Father Brown", è uno dei racconti scritti da Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) che hanno come protagonista...

I tre strumenti di morte (The three tools of death), pubblicato nel 1911 nell’antologia "The innocence of Father Brown", è uno dei racconti scritti da Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) che hanno come...

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) è autore, insieme a molte altre cose, di una serie di cinquantadue racconti pubblicati in cinque antologie tra il 1911 e il 1935 che hanno come protagonista Padre...

The Man Who Knew Too Much and other stories (1922) is a book of detective stories by English writer G. K. Chesterton, published in 1922 by Cassell and Company in the United Kingdom, and Harper Brothers...

Ein Detektiv....Eine geheime Gesellschaft...und eine außerordentliche Entdeckung.

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...

Padre Brown, insieme a Flambeu e all’ispettore Carven, indaga sulla morte di Archibald Ogilvo, conte di Glengyle. Tra le cianfrusaglie accumulate nel castello, alcune alimentano non pochi sospetti sulla...

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....

Écrivain, journaliste, apologète, polémiste prolifique, Gilbert KeithChesterton (1874-1936) ne peut s'empêcher de croiser la plume avec sesadversaires : littérature, religion, philosophie, politique,...

« Quand on lit Chesterton, on se sent submergé par une extraordinaire impression de bonheur. Sa prose est le contraire d’académique : elle est joyeuse. Ses mots rebondissent dans un jaillissement d’étincelles,...

Edition enrichie (préface, notes)« J’essaie d’entrer dans le meurtrier […], pensant ses pensées, luttant avec ses passions, jusqu’à me retrouver tapi, aux aguets, dans la posture même de la haine qui...