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  • The Man Who Knew Too Much

    by G.K. Chesterton ...
    The classic British detective story that became the immortal Hitchcock film starring James Stewart—from the author of the Father Brown mysteries.Horne Fisher is a skilled detective who always finds his man, but every solution comes with a catch: Exposing the crime will make things worse. Fisher's greatest strength isn't his Holmesian ability to deduce, but his knowledge of the dirty secrets of the ... Read more

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  • The Outline of Sanity

    by G. K. Chesterton ...
    G. K. Chesterton’s famous thesis explores the subjects of poverty, agriculture, machinery, capital gain, and concentration of wealth from an anti-capitalist viewpoint.This fascinating volume argues the threat to smaller businesses as corporate companies become more dominant. Fiercely relevant almost 100 years after its first publication, The Outline of Sanity is G. K. Chesterton’s insightful ... Read more

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  • Father Brown Complete Murder Mysteries: The Innocence of Father Brown, The Wisdom of Father Brown, The Donnington Affair…

    by G. K. Chesterton ...
    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 work of art, and each criminal as a man no worse than himself... ... Read more

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  • The Complete Father Brown Stories

    by G K Chesterton ...
    Series series Father Brown
    To celebrate the 100th anniversary of G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown mysteries, BBC One Daytime has commissioned a new 10-part drama series for January 2013 to bring the priest-turned-detective back to life. BBC Books will be publishing a new edition of the original and complete short stories to tie-in to transmission.Set in the early-twentieth century, Father Brown's world is quintessentially ... Read more

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  • The Victorian Age in Literature

    by G.K. Chesterton ...
    A fascinating survey of Victorian literature from one of England's greatest mindsDishing out his signature brand of harsh wit, G. K. Chesterton casts a critical eye on the poets and novelists that defined the Victorian age in English literature. "Her imagination was sometimes superhuman—always inhuman," he writes of Emily Brontë. " Wuthering Heights might have been written by an eagle." Ranging ... Read more

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  • The Man Who Was Thursday

    A Nightmare

    by G. K. Chesterton ...
    G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately, a spellbinding allegory. As Jonathan Lethem remarks in his Introduction, The real characters are ... Read more

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  • Father Brown (Complete Collection)

    53 Murder Mysteries: The Scandal of Father Brown, The Donnington Affair & The Mask of Midas…

    by G. K. Chesterton ...
    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 work of art, and each criminal as a man no worse than himself... Here you will find the complete Father Brown stories ... Read more

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  • William Cobbett (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Radical Journalist's Fight for Rural England, Parliamentary Reform, and Common Life Against Modern Power

    by G. K. Chesterton, Owen Fenlow ...
    G. K. Chesterton's William Cobbett is a vigorous biographical study of the great English journalist, pamphleteer, farmer, and political agitator. Rather than offering a detached chronology, Chesterton presents Cobbett as a living force in English letters: earthy, combative, patriotic, and morally impatient. Written in Chesterton's paradoxical, aphoristic style, the book places Cobbett within the ... Read more

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  • The Man Who Was Thursday

    A Nightmare

    by G. K. Chesterton ...
    Often referred to as a metaphysical thriller, G.K. Chesterton’s brilliant 1908 novella The Man Who Was Thursday – A Nightmare is a tour-de-force of suspense-writing.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 ... Read more

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  • Orthodoxy

    by G. K. Chesterton ...
    Standing six foot, four inches tall, and weighing 21 stone, GK Chesterton was a man of striking appearance; and all the more so for his chosen uniform of cape, large hat, swordstick and cigar. A prolific writer, he regarded himself primarily as a journalist; but also wrote poetry, philosophy, biography, detective fiction, Christian apologetics - and fantasy. For as he once said: 'Fairy tales are ... Read more

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    Orthodoxy

    by G. K. Chesterton, Christians Listening Recording ...
    Narrated by Fred Williams ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 49 min

    G. K. Chesterton was a journalist, playwright, poet, biographer, novelist, essayist, literary commentator, editor, orator, artist, and theologian. Orthodoxy is his great apologia for the Christian faith, which was prompted by a serious attack in 1903 against Christianity by well-known newspaper editor Robert Blatchford.Published just five years later, Chesterson’s famous reply took the form of an ... Read more

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  • The Man Who Was Thursday: a Nightmare

    by G. K. Chesterton ...
    According to Wikipedia, "The book has been referred to as a metaphysical thriller... Although it deals with anarchists, the novel is not an exploration or rebuttal of anarchist thought; Chesterton's ad hoc construction of "Philosophical Anarchism" is distinguished from ordinary anarchism and is referred to several times not so much as a rebellion against government but as a rebellion against Good. ... Read more

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