Lo scandalo di padre Brown - format ePub

"Me dirijo al hombre de la calle, escéptico pero también comprensivo, y mi única esperanza, bastante vaga por cierto, es que si abordo la biografía de este gran santo por el lado llamativo y popular que...

Se preguntarán con mucha razón por qué, de no mediar una especie de apuesta, iba yo a aceptar el encargo de escribir siquiera un ensayo popular sobre la historia de Inglaterra, si no puedo invocar ningún...

El poeta y los lunáticos (1929), de Gilbert Keith Chesterton, no es exactamente una novela, sino más bien una sucesión de episodios entrelazados, en los que un aparente loco -el poeta y pintor Gabriel...

Siete de las aventuras más conocidas de los detectives más famosos de la literatura universal.Selección de siete narraciones de cuatro autores fundacionales del género de detectives: Edgar Allan Poe,...

Las mentes de los detectives más brillantes del relato policial se encuentran reunidas en esta antología para que, junto con ellas, descubras los crímenes que aquí se plantean.

A collection of related short stories by British author G. K. Chesterton. Each story is centered on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means (a "queer trade"). To gain admittance...

"The Wisdom of Father Brown" (1914) is a collection of twelve stories by G.K. Chesterton, featuring his empathetic detective Father Brown. Sherlock Holmes might be sexier, but GK Chesterton's atmospheric...

"The Innocence of Father Brown" (1911) is the first collection of stories starring the empathetic detective Father Brown. Sherlock Holmes might be sexier, but GK Chesterton's atmospheric Father Brown...

I quattro racconti di questa raccolta rappresentano una piccola selezione tra le molte storie scritti da Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) che hanno come protagonista Padre Brown, il sacerdote cattolico...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often shortened to Huck Finn) is a novel written by American humorist Mark Twain. It is commonly used and accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. It is also...

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...

In the October 1914 issue of the British magazine The Premier, Sir Max Pemberton published the first part of this story, inviting a number of writers, including Chesterton, to use their talents to solve...

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

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...

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...

A thrilling and ominously prophetic debut set in a world when Earth and its resources have been pushed to breaking point, giving rise to a revolutionary—and highly controversial—procedure in which two...

Red, White & Royal Blue meets the theater world of London’s dazzling West End in this nuanced, queer debut romance in which a fake dating publicity stunt between rival co-stars results in romantic...

Bicycle-riding, aspiring archaeologist Marigold Manners is back and ready for adventure in Elizabeth Hobbs’s next mesmerizing historical mystery. “A humdinger…whose characters bring to mind those of both...

Three generations of German Jewish family undergo the tumult, upheaval, and brutality of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history in this panoramic and skillfully nuanced family drama, rich with gossip...

The first novel by Jan Kerouac, daughter of Jack—a thrilling work of autobiographical fiction that captures with inspired detail a life driven by adventure, drugs, far-flung travel, and like her father,...

Après avoir perdu sa femme et son enfant, il y a quelques années, Tyson pense être enfin prêt à reprendre le cours de sa vie. Alors, lorsque Kai, la meilleure amie de son épouse, mentionne avec désinvolture...

A suspenseful, often harrowing yet hopeful odyssey through rural America follows a young drifter’s coming of age in an indifferent world, in this debut novel by comedian Louis C.K.When Ingram is forced...

Holly, a witch attempting to cure the incurable, finds her life rudely interrupted by a tall, dark, and handsome stranger. He has an inexplicable knack for spiritual magics, brewing the perfect cup of...

It is the time of Placement in the underworld of Gog, and Grugreera and all the second ring Primes wait to find out how they will spend the rest of their lives. Grugreera receives the role he's wanted...

A laugh-out-loud holiday rom-com full of heart, heat, and one disastrous roommate decision.Paige Ellis is obsessed with Christmas. Matching pajamas? Yes. Peppermint everything? Absolutely. "Is that a...

Cole Landry is living his best life. His position as Enforcer of the Bayou Crescent wolfpack isn't a difficult one as the pack lifestyle is laid-back. So, no stress, right? It gives him time to charm...

Nesta multifacetada coletânea de contos, os leitores serão transportados para o Japão moderno e o tradicional, um mundo onde as relações, como as entre gatos e seus donos, são construídas com afeto, cumplicidade...

College professor and widower Willy Daugherty is trying to keep his life together for the sake of his kids, but when their apartment building catches fire, everything they have goes up in flames. In the...

Fast Cars, Fake Dates, And Way Too Many Feelings.Avery Silver, the daughter of an F1 mogul father and a high-society mother, is determined to prove she got her new job as the director of the Silver Racing...

Cursed siblings sing forever on a spaceship.Enchanted pumpkins wreak havoc.Baba Yaga and the Firebird take tea.Sometimes silly, sometimes scary, sometimes startling, dozens of poems and stories – many...

Sometimes home is a person.After her sweetheart Joe dies in a road accident, twenty-four hours after he returns from Army service, grieving Karla Payne slams the door on love. Five years later, Karla's...

When gorgeous neurosurgeon Sheridan Rousseau walks into Lisette Mouton's charming little bookstore in Quebec City, she unknowingly holds the key to a mysterious box hidden in a secret room. Upon opening...

A doctor in need of a new start.A woman running from a killer.A love story that could end in tragedy.When Dr. Gianna Walford finds her girlfriend in bed with another woman, she needs a new start and Cliffside,...

Stock transporter Tobie Mason is driving a trio of valuable thoroughbred racing mares from Kentucky to a California farm when her rig becomes involved in a multiple vehicle pileup, and the most valuable...

Hollywood is full of scandals…what's one more?When Amelia's identical twin sister, Zoey, asks her to step in for her at a conference for supernatural TV shows while she auditions for a blockbuster movie,...

Charlie Benson is happy with her life; she just feels a little lost. The empty nest years haven't been as easy as she thought they might be, and while planning her daughter's wedding should be fun, it's...

In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, all that remains is HOPE.Creek is a deaf boy, thief, vagral, and a wily survivor of the ruins of what used to be America. He couldn't be more different from Lucinda, a...

When a near-fatal collapse shatters Jon's life, his fiancée Via must confront the limits of science, love, and what it means to truly heal. Set against the backdrop of late-90s college life and the noise...

Quelque part, dans une Afrique en quête d'identité, se tissent et s'entremêlent des millions de vies se démenant au gré du destin ou peut-être, en réalité, au gré seulement de l'humeur d'autres hommes...

In this sequel to the critically acclaimed This Place is Magic, holding on to one another might mean letting go of dreams old and new.One missed flight was enough to change everything for Eunjae. After...

On Lunaria, peaceful citadels burn as the merciless Djinni sweep across the White Plains, their onslaught threatening to extinguish the dawn of all hope.After a century in captivity, subjected to aetheric...

Enjoy this collection of 6 PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED romances by Jemi Fraser.These small town Christmas stories take place in Bloo Moose, Phail, at Midnight Lake, and on the No Phailed Apples farm.These romances...

She's been trained to put her royal duty first, but what happens when it will cost her the dream she's always harbored? Evalina Rosalind Marie Bexley, Princess of Nevive, is ready to step into her role...

D'aussi loin qu'elle se souvienne, Tessa a toujours rêvé d'un monde meilleur. Mais elle pourrait bien être celle qui vient de le condamner.La nuit est tombée sur Aesir. Une comète traverse le ciel, annonçant...

Certaines sorcières lancent des sorts. D'autres se délectent des poisons et des meurtres.Tandis que les sœurs Joubert, privées du plein potentiel de leurs pouvoirs, se fraient un chemin au cœur d'un royaume...