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De la extensa obra de Chesterton, lo más difundido son, sobre todo, los cuentos detectivescos del Padre Brown y la novela metafísico-policial El hombre que jueves. Lo más importante, sin embargo, se encuentra...

El conjunto de los relatos del padre Brown, escrito a lo largo de más de veinte años, constituye quizá la obra más popular de Chesterton. El simpático cura-detective que los protagoniza resuelve en ellos,...

En el hombre que fue jueves se han reunido dos grandes escritores, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, uno de los novelistas ingleses más originales, y el mexicano Alfonso Reyes, quien hizo la traducción y el prólogo...

Edicion de Alejandro y Jaime Valero. Comparándolos con otros, puede que algunos relatos del padre Brown parezcan ingenuos. Pero es que él no es un detective al uso, ni tampoco sus historias. No podemos...

Cuando se habla de las características inconfundibles del humor inglés, se habla concretamente del londinense Gilbert Keith Chesterton, porque toda su obra lleva este sello de identidad. Y como una evidente...

G.K. Chesterton, autor de novelas como El hombre que fue jueves y creador del famoso detective Padre Brown, fue ante todo un periodista que escribió miles de artículos para distintos medios.Su colaboración...

A lo largo de estas páginas, un par de proscritos hacen rodar por toda Inglaterra, huyendo de la justicia, el último barril de ron de la isla después de que un decreto gubernamental haya ordenado el cierre...

G.K. Chesterton, autor de novelas como El hombre que fue jueves y creador del famoso detective Padre Brown, fue ante todo un periodista que escribió miles de artículos para distintos medios. Su colaboración...

De la extensa obra de Chesterton, lo más difundido son, sobre todo, los cuentos detectivescos del Padre Brown y la novela metafísico-policial El hombre que jueves. Lo más importante, sin embargo, se encuentra...

el escritor británico G.K. Chesterton Chesterton es conocido por su estilo literario vívido que incluye metáforas elaboradas y juegos de palabras. "The Man Who Was Thursday" es un ejemplo perfecto de...

 La gente se pregunta por qué la novela es la forma literaria más popular; la gente se pregunta por qué se lee más que los libros de ciencias o los libros de metafísica. La razón es muy simple: porque...

"El hombre que fue Jueves" supuso un hito en la carrera literaria de Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), y apuntaló su fama merecida de “maestro de las paradojas”. En un Londres más cercano al surrealismo...

Este volumen, realizado en colaboración con el Club Chesterton de la Universidad San Pablo CEU (Fundación Cultural Ángel Herrera Oria), es el sexto de esta serie que pone a disposición de los lectores...

¿Qué es la anarquía? En consenso mayoritario significa la violencia extrema ante la tentación permanente de dominio. El hombre que fue jueves, descubre la falsedad de "un mundo en el que los hombres se...

"Las aventuras completas del padre Brown" es una colección de relatos de misterio protagonizados por el fraile católico y detective amateur, el padre Brown. Publicada por primera vez en 1910, esta obra...

En "Ortodoxia", G.K. Chesterton presenta una defensa apasionada del cristianismo, explorando sus verdades fundamentales a través de una serie de ensayos que reflexionan sobre la fe, la razón y la existencia...

Tales From the Tomes: Vol. 1 is a collection of four mystical stories of magic and science. Lance Kehisato weaves the future and the past together, creating a string of four stories in different worlds,...

Emmaline has been in a coma for two crucial years of her teenage life. Waking life is almost as disorienting, but finally she is reunited with her sister and father. Now she must make up for lost time,...

Children are not brought up in society to focus on politics. They are often encouraged to enjoy their life and their childhood. It is often said that kids should just be kids. But when there is a political...

Aidan Black left the Marine Corps to skip the red tape, but it's a woman from his past he's now trying to avoid… one who believes him capable of murder. Briar Sutton is the last person I expect to see...

Cillian is no stranger to the pull of dark magic as he is the son of both the Dark realm Princess and the Light realm Prince. What doesn't help is that he may have been further infused with dark magic...

This is a collection of ten horror microfiction tales, sometimes called bite-sized fiction or 'drabbles'. These stories are limited to precisely one-hundred words and aim to pack a punch, all the while...

The Stygian Lepus Magazine is a thrilling foray into dark speculative fiction. In each new edition, readers explore the depths of imagination, where fear and fascination intertwine.Offering diverse genres...

The "Love on the Ice" series delivers a pulse-pounding journey through five heart-stopping books that redefine love on and off the hockey rink!Book #1: Melting the Ice Between Us (Novella)I'm not sticking...

"Hast thou seen that lordly castle,That castle by the sea?Golden and red above itThe clouds float gorgeously."Do you remember GratianGratian Conyfer, the godson of the four winds, the boy who lived at...

The stories begin with those which children like bestthe old Blue Beard, Puss in Boots, Hop o my Thumb, Little Red Riding Hood, The Sleeping Beauty, and Toads and Pearls. These were first collected, written,...

"Eugene Witla, wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour her, and keep her in sickness...

Quite aside from its natural characteristics, there is an atmosphere about a college town, especially a New England college town, that is unmistakable. It is not so much actively intellectual as passively...

Jaime Febrer arose at nine o'clock. Old Antonia, the faithful servant who cherished the memory of the past glories of the family, and who had attended upon Jaime from the day of his birth, had been bustling...

SAMSARA'S DEAD HAVE CHOSEN NEL. AND THE CACOPHONY CALLED FOR JUSTICE. Archaeologist Dr. Nel Bently has never been farther from home. With a tenuous ceasefire from Lin's rebellion force and genocidal Harris...

Dangerously good-looking. Dangerously breathtaking. This dangerously sinful cowboy is going to steal her heart. When the outback's bare-knuckle champion, Dex Riggs, arrives in Sophie's emergency room,...

Nina Rosethorn, a university student, survives a lightning strike and returns home to Vancouver. But the incident triggers a haunting ability: premonitions manifest in her nightmares. Determined to prevent...

Star Maker, regarded as one of the true classics of science fiction, Star Maker is a poetic and deeply philosophical work. The story details the mental journey of an unnamed narrator who is transported...

The contents of the work which gave such pleasure to this learned antiquary are as follows:I. IntroductionSimilarity of Arts and CustomsSimilarity of NamesOrigin of the WorkImitationCasual CoincidenceMiltonDante.II....

Agatha-nominated series! A madcap mystery set in the off, off, OFF Broadway world of theater (#4 in the Ivy Meadows Mystery series)There's a new sheriff in town—and she can sing! When Gold Bug Gulch's...

Have you ever felt that itch in the back of your brain you just can't scratch? A particular gnawing on your mind biting away your best thoughts? Meet Wormy: the literal brain worm residing inside the...

In Sister Carrie, Dreiser portrayed a changing society, writing about a young woman who flees rural life for the city (Chicago) and struggles with poverty, complex relationships with men, and prostitution....

The first question to be proposed by a rational being is, not what is profitable, but what is Right. Duty must be primary, prominent, most conspicuous, among the objects of human thought and pursuit....

Tales of Space and Time, A collection of short stories: "The Crystal Egg", "The Star", "A Story of the Stone Age", "A Story of the Days to Come" & "The Man who could Work Miracles" Some Books of...

The "Times.""For its rapid action, in fact, we have seldom read a better story, or one which is more full of incidents, sanguinary, trenchant, and robust."The "Daily Telegraph.""A true and a wonderfully...

This book, re-edited and illustrated by e-kitap projesi and published again in ebook format. In this book, telling that Cooterells adventures, and so was a treasure adventure, Naturally then Ben felt...

The SCENE is the Exterior of a Cottage in West Issacshire on a desperately Arcadian afternoon in August. MR. ICKY, quaintly dressed in the costume of an Elizabethan peasant, is pottering and doddering...

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little...

The day that Henry Smix met and embraced Gasoline Power and went up Main Street hand in hand with it is not yet forgotten. It was a hasty marriage, so to speak, and the results of it were truly deplorable....

COMMON opinion said that Lord Lynborough ought never to have had a peerage and forty thousand a year; he ought to have had a pound a week and a back bedroom in Bloomsbury. Then he would have become an...

This is the third, and probably the last, of the Fairy Books of many colours. First there was the Blue Fairy Book; then, children, you asked for more, and we made up the Red Fairy Book; and, when you...