G. K. Chesterton
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Inhalt:
Romane:
Der Mann, der Donnerstag war
Das fliegende Wirtshaus
Erzählungen:
Das blaue Kreuz
Der geheime Garten
Israel Gows Ehre
Der Unsichtbare
Mißgestaltet
Die verdächtigen Tritte
Die Sternschnuppen
Die Sünden des Prinzen Saradin
Der Hammer Gottes
Das Zeichen des zerbrochenen Schwertes
Die drei Todeswerkzeuge
Essay:
Verteidigung des Unsinns, der Demut, des Schundromans und anderer mißachteter Dinge
82) Man Alive
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A Wonderful Eccentric Novel from G.K. Chesterton. "She had never really listened to anyone in her life, which, some said, was why she had survived." Man Alive is a book about the modern man's problems in which G.K. Chesterton shows us why life is worth living and why we need a little madness sometimes just to feel alive.
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Excerpt: "It is futile to talk of reform with reference to form. To take a case from my own taste and fancy, there is nothing I feel to be so, beautiful and wonderful as a window. All casements are magic casements, whether they open on the foam or the front-garden; they lie close to the ultimate mystery and paradox of limitation and liberty. But, if I followed my instinct towards an infinite number of windows, it would end in having no walls. It would...
84) Browning
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In this absorbing biography of Robert Browning, one of the most important Victorian poets, Chesterton examines the poet from his early life to his early poems. He places an emphasis on how Browning's life informed and influenced his work. Revealing and readable, it is also a prime example of Chesterton's singular approach to biography and literary criticism.
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This early work by G. K. Chesterton was originally published in 1913. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London in 1874. He studied at the Slade School of Art, and upon graduating began to work as a freelance journalist. Over the course of his life, his literary output was incredibly diverse and highly prolific, ranging from philosophy and ontology to art criticism and detective fiction. However, he is probably best-remembered for his Christian...
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Stories, Essays and Poems contains a collection of G. K. Chesterton's works. Within is a selection of some of his stories, including "The Blue Cross", "The Secret Garden" and "The Queer Feet". His Essays, such as "The Fallacy of Success", "The Mad Official" and "Hard Times". As well as a large selection of his poems, including "Alone", "An Alliance" and "The Aristocrat".
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The beloved fictional detective Father Brown solves 12 of his most puzzling cases in this copiously annotated edition. This first collection of Father Brown mysteries, widely considered the author's best, includes "The Blue Cross" "The Hammer of God," "The Eye of Apollo" and more.
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"The Myth of the "Mayflower"" is a 1921 work by G. K. Chesterton. Within it, he attempts to separate fact from fiction concerning the story of the 'Mayflower', an English ship that transported early Pilgrims to the New World in 1620. The ship has since become an important part of American history and culture, as well as the subject of innumerable works of art, plays, films, poems, songs, books, etc. This fascinating treatise is highly recommended...
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The journals of a club which called itself the Lunatic Asylum: a group of amiable eccentrics who spend their time trying to do the impossible. At first they are nothing more than that: four whimsical idiots with no sense of responsibility, clowning outrageously for the sake of clowning. But soon they begin to see themselves as men with a mission: for they find that they are the only people left in England who are still defending the individual soul...
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In Manalive we follow the madcap adventure of Innocent Smith. Innocent Smith is a man, who keeps the commandments but breaks all the conventions, and while doing so he shows us just how absurd those conventions are. Follow him as he breaks into his own house, and then carries on a torrid affair with his own wife. Enjoy a picnic on the roof and then leave home just for the sake of returning home. A joyous and uplifting book.
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The three great apologies of G.K. Chesterton in one volume: Heretics, Orthodoxy & The Everlasting Man.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton has become synonymous with modern Christian apologetics. But, his impact goes beyond just those interested in a defense of Christian thought. His writings have influenced such diverse authors as C.S. Lewis, Marshall McLuhan, and Jorge Luis Borges, and remains a subtle and unseen presence in contemporary Catholic thought....
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It would not be fair to record the adventures of Father Brown, without admitting that he was once involved in a grave scandal. There still are persons, perhaps even of his own community, who would say that there was a sort of blot upon his name. It happened in a picturesque Mexican road-house of rather loose repute, as appeared later; and to some it seemed that for once the priest had allowed a romantic streak in him, and his sympathy for human weakness,...
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This early work by G. K. Chesterton was originally published in 1915. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London in 1874. He studied at the Slade School of Art, and upon graduating began to work as a freelance journalist. Over the course of his life, his literary output was incredibly diverse and highly prolific, ranging from philosophy and ontology to art criticism and detective fiction. However, he is probably best-remembered for his Christian...
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A rousing ballad based on the true story of legendary Saxon king Alfred the Great. In the dark times before a unified England, warring tribes roved and sparred for territory across the British Isles. The Ballad of the White Horse records the deeds and military accomplishments of Alfred the Great as he defeats the invading Danes at the Battle of Ethandun. Published in 1911, this poem follows the battle - from the gathering of the chiefs to the last...
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Contents Include: Three Dedications: To Edmund Clerihew Bentley; To Hilaire Belloc; To M.E.W. War Poems: Lepanto; The March of the Black Mountain 1913; Blessed are the Peacemakers; The Wife of Flanders; The Crusader Returns from Captivity. LOVE POEMS: Glencoe; Love's Trappist; Confessional; Music; The Deluge; The Strange Music; The Great Minimum; The Mortal Answers; The Marriage Song; Bay Combe. RELIGIOUS POEMS: The Wise Men; The House of Christmas;...
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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 de todas las tabernas en nombre del ecumenismo y el entendimiento entre culturas. Allí donde los fugitivos se detienen y abren la espita del barril, enseguida cristaliza una sociedad en miniatura, como una perla alrededor de un grano de arena....
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Your Special Illustrated & Annotated edition includes:
• 11 Brand New Illustrations – in Chisel sequence™ - of St. Thomas Aquinas by generative artist Myron Henkmen!
• Bibliography of G.K. Chesterton – Humanities – since 1980 – Harvard format for quick Research
• Glossary of Traditional Catholic Terms
Here is the Chesterton's brilliant "sketch" of the great Scholastic theologian and Doctor of the Church St. Thomas Aquinas, nicknamed...
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Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by G. K. Chesterton. Table Of Contents: Alarms and Discursions, All Things Considered, The Appetite of Tyranny, Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens, The Ballad of the White Horse, The Ball and the Cross, The Barbarism of Berlin, The Club Of Queer Trades, The Crimes Of England, The Defendant Eugenics And Other Evils, George Bernard Shaw, Heretics, The Innocence Of Father...
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En el itinerario de su conversión, el autor recupera por oleadas algunas convicciones de la niñez, conservadas entre las líneas de cuentos de hadas y novelas de aventuras. Lo relata en Ortodoxia, su libro más central y el que mejor lo define, y del que se ha extraído este capítulo. En él se muestra su profunda independencia intelectual y un discernimiento clarividente.