La vida transcorre monòtona entre els components deJa colònia anglesa de Polybia, un pacífic i tranquil país prop d'Egipte, quan un bon dia es comet un assassinat que posa en qüestió l'ordre establert. Barbara...
Esta obra ha sido calificada de 'libro de fuego', pues une a las cualidades del mejor estilo polémico de su autor, la ternura y la imaginación de su más inspirada lírica. En esta original biografía, Chesterton...
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) es donà a conèixer amb articles dart i crítica literària. Durant el primer quart de segle sobresortí pel seu esperit anti-racionalista i anti-científic, que exposava duna...
Father Brownâs powers of detection allow him to sit beside the immortal Holmes but he is also, to quote Rufus King, âin all senses a most pleasantly fascinating human being.â You will be enchanted by...
In Orthodoxy, Gilbert K. Chesterton explains how and why he came to believe in Christianity. In the book, Chesterton takes the spiritually curious reader on an intellectual quest. While looking for the meaning of life, he finds truth that uniquely fulfill...
Here is the book that converted C. S. Lewis from atheism to Christianity. This history of mankind, Christ, and Christianity is to some extent a conscious rebuttal of H. G. Wellsâ Outline of History, which embraced both the evolutionary...
In Orthodoxy, Gilbert K. Chesterton explains how and why he came to believe in Christianity and more specifically the Catholic Churchâs brand of orthodoxy. In the book, Chesterton takes the spiritually curious reader on an intellectual...
Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and commons, the horizon of which was fringed with the far-off woods of the famous estate of Torwood Park. He was a good-looking young man in...
Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective who is featured in 53 short stories published between 1910 and 1936 written by English novelist G. K. Chesterton. Father Brown solves mysteries and crimes using his intuition and keen...
A book by G. K. Chesterton detailing a popular theme both in his own philosophy, and in Christianity, of the 'holy fool', such as in Dostoevsky's The Idiot and Cervantes' Don Quixote. This is a book in two parts. The first, âThe...
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (29 May 1874 â 14 June 1936), was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. Chesterton is often referred to as the "princ...
Each story in the collection is centered on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means (a "queer trade", using the word "queer" in the sense of "peculiar"). To gain admittance one must have invented...
Gabriel Syme is recruited at Scotland Yard to a secret anti-anarchist police corps. Lucian Gregory, an anarchistic poet, lives in the suburb of Saffron Park. Syme meets him at a party and they debate the meaning of poetry. Gregory argues revolt is the...
Newly recruited Scotland Yard detective Gabriel Syme infiltrates a dangerous underworld anarchist group with the help of a poet he befriends, named Lucian Gregory. The taut adventure that ensues is part spy narrative, part dystopian novel and part Christi...