A new selection of the much-loved Father Brown stories, now part of the Penguin English Library'No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be'Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk dumpling, Father Brown makes for an improbable super-sleuth. But his innocence is the secret of his success: refusing the scientific method of detection, he adopts instead an approach of simple sympathy, interpreting each crime as a wor...
Known primarily for his non-fiction, Chesterton also wrote fiction, and The Napoleon of Notting Hill and The Man Who was Thursday are two of his best-loved novels. The Napoleon of Notting Hill, his first novel, tells the story of residents of a London suburb who take up arms and declare their independence from England, with line drawings throughout. The Man Who was Thursday, his most famous novel, tells the story of a policeman who becomes unw...
In this classic of Christian apologetics, Chesterton lays out a sort of "spiritual autobiography"--how he personally came to believe. Chesterton considered it a companion book to his earlier work Heretics. Where Heretics was a collection of essays defending the Christian faith, Orthodoxy is Chesterton's own story of how he came to believe that faith.G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was one of C. S. Lewis' primary mentors in apologetics, and an inf...
In G.K. Chesterton's celebrated work, "Orthodoxy, " readers embark on an intellectual odyssey navigating the realms between skepticism and belief. Through personal narratives and philosophical paradoxes, Chesterton artfully constructs a compelling argument for orthodox principles.
Within these pages, Chesterton skillfully dissects intricate philosophical and theological inquiries, distilling their complexities into accessible insights. His elo...
Rikoksia, mysteereitä ja eräs nokkela pappi ¿ niistä on hyväntuuliset Isä Brown -tarinat tehty!Isä Brown on paitsi seurakuntansa hengellinen tukipilari, myös innokas amatöörietsivä. Kun yhteisössä tapahtuu mitä kummallisimpia rikoksia, on hän aina valmiina selvittämään, mitä on tapahtunut ja kuka on syyllinen. Isä Brownin terävä silmä ja tarkka ihmistuntemus takaavat sen, että hän löytää totuuden silloinkin, kun poliisit ovat ymmällään. Isä Br...
Embark on an intellectual odyssey through the pages of G. K. Chesterton's profound work, "Heretics, " a literary masterpiece that challenges conventional thought and confronts the prevailing ideologies of the early 20th century. In this enlightening exploration, Chesterton delves into the realms of heresy, questions established norms and sparks a thought-provoking conversation about the nature of skepticism and belief.
In "Heretics, " Chestert...
In Utopia of Usurers G.K. Chesterton takes to task the theoretical and practical fallout of laissez-faire capitalism. The book invites all comers to reconsider their ideological prejudices concerning "conservative" love of the free market. As Chesterton argues in "The Superstition of Divorce":
"Capitalism, of course, is at war with the family. It desires its victims to be individuals, or (in other words) to be atoms. For the word atom, in its ...
What I Saw in America" is a group of essays by using the famend English author G. K. Chesterton, providing his eager observations and reflections at the United States in the course of his go to inside the early Twenties. Chesterton, celebrated for his wit and highbrow intensity, brings a completely unique and sometimes paradoxical attitude to his analysis of American society and tradition. Throughout the ebook, Chesterton engages with the Amer...
Father Brown returns in his fourth collection of stories, and his sidekick Flambeau makes a return as well, although only in the two framing stories at the beginning and end of the collection.
In the intervening ten stories, Father Brown is alone, and investigating mysteries involving objects as varied as mirrors, literal goldfish (made out of gold), and a suit of armor. As always, his investigations also provide him an opportunity to expound ...
