G. K. Chesterton
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Cuando se habla de las características inconfundibles del humor inglés, se habla concretamente del londinense Gilbert Keith Chesterton, porque toda su obra lleva este sello de identidad. Y como una evidente muestra de ello, es la colección de relatos El club de los negocios raros. En ellos encontramos la búsqueda de lo singular, lo que no puede repetirse de ninguna forma porque se trata, indudablemente, de historias que solo pueden ser posibles...
102) Menschenskind
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"Menschenskind" beschreibt die manchmal widrigen Umstände in die ein Mensch sich begeben kann. Die Themen Moral und Sterblichkeit werden auf eine unterhaltsame Weise beleuchtet.Wann ist ein Mensch gleichzeitig ein Dieb, Bigamist, Mörder und Deserteur und doch keins von allen...
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The amiable detective-priest Father Brown, who brought Chesterton to a wider public first appeared in The Innocence of Father Brown and remains one of the best-known names in crime fiction. These two novels were first published in 1911 and 1914 and contain 12 short stories each.
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Las dos grandes obsesiones de Chesterton, el arte y la religión, se reúnen en esta colección de ensayos que nacieron como reseñas literarias y acabaron convirtiéndose en un recorrido por lo bueno y lo superior. Así, los personajes glosados por Chesterton en este volumen, se dividen en dos categorías, los "temperamentos artísticos" (Blake, Lord Byron, Charlotte Brontë, William Morris, Robert Louis Stevenson) y los "temperamentos religiosos"...
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Los relatos del padre Brown han entrado a formar parte de nuestra mitología particular. Las historias detectivescas protagonizadas por un sacerdote católico, sin más ayuda que su sentido común, un formidable conocimiento del género humano y un paraguas, nos llegan arropadas por un perspicaz candor que nos las hace profundamente amigas. De ellos, Borges afirmó que cuando el género policial hubiera caducado, el porvenir seguiría leyéndolos....
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One of the twentieth century's most admired and influential authors, G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) created an enduring body of work that encompasses journalism, poetry, plays, history, biography, apologetics, and detective fiction. Chesterton's thought-provoking writings have profoundly affected countless readers, including C. S. Lewis, Michael Collins, and Mahatma Gandhi. This anthology features two unabridged works of fiction: Chesterton's thriller,...
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An entertaining collection drawn from G. K. Chesterton's early years as a newspaper columnist. This compilation of "fleeting sketches," written by G. K. Chesterton while he was a columnist for the Daily News, contains the humor, foresight, and intellectual curiosity that quickly made the young writer a household name throughout London. A tribute to the playfulness of Chesterton's spirit, Tremendous Trifles contains such gems as "An Accident," in which...
109) The Book of Job
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The Book of Job: An Introduction (1907) is G. K. Chesterton's brilliant philosophical essay on the Old Testament story of Job. Chesterton probes deeply into the riddles and paradoxes of the search for God's presence in our lives.
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Contrary to first impressions, G. K. Chestertons Father Brown is not senile, nor easily rattled. In fact, this village priest wanders into challenges that pale in comparison to the things he has heard through the screen of the confessional. For to hear Father Brown tell it, crime is a manifestation of sin: the criminal must be caught, but he or she must also be saved, the culprit has to be locked up, but the spirit must be freed.
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Known primarily for his non-fiction, G. K. Chesterton also wrote fiction. The Napoleon of Notting Hill and The Man Who was Thursday are two of his best-loved novels.
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
In Chesterton's first novel, he conjures up a London neighborhood that has become an independent city, fond of pageantry and traditional ways, isolated by high walls from the rest of the world. When its rights and autonomy are threatened by modernizing...
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In Heretics, Gilbert K. Chesterton rails against what he sees as wrong with society. He points out how society has, gone astray and how life and spirituality could be, brought back into focus. It is foolish, generally, speaking, for a philosopher to set fire to another philosopher in Smithfield Market because, they do not, agree in their theory of the universe. That was, done very frequently in the last decadence of the Middle Ages, and it failed...
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In this rich collection of biographical essays, Chesterton illuminates twelve of the most influential figures in European history. With characteristic insight and critical thought, Chesterton creates enduring portraits of such figures as Charlotte Brontë, Lord Byron, Thomas Carlyle, Charles II, St. Francis of Assisi, Alexander Pope, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Leo Tolstoy.
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G. K. Chesterton's highly influential treatise on one of the most controversial topics of the early twentieth century. When G. K. Chesterton first published Eugenics and Other Evils in 1922, he seemed to be the lone voice of reason against the fashionable concept of selectively breeding a population for "desirable" traits. Though later generations came to associate eugenics with the horrors of the Third Reich, worldwide support for the philosophy...
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In 1902 the ever-provocative Chesterton published Twelve Types, a collection of short biographies of famous figures from history. In 1910 he winnowed the table of contents to a mere five: "The Optimism of Byron," "Pope and the Art of Satire," "Stevenson," "Rostand," and "Charles II."
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A librarian in a small town is asked to play the part of a medieval king. He not only takes his role seriously by thoroughly researching the Middle Ages, when the play is concluded, he refuses to take off the costume. He remains in character, much to the surprise of the other actors.
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An eccentric poet acts as spiritual detective in eight thought-provoking tales. Gabriel Gale employs his extraordinary gifts of empathy to solve and prevent crimes perpetrated by madmen. His philosophical police-work forms the basis for captivating explorations of poetry, insanity, and sin - all expressed in the author's characteristic paradoxes and soaring flights of rhetoric. Best known as the creator of priest-detective Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton...
119) Magic
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Magic is an excellent philosophical play about a conjuror whose tricks throw an entire household into turmoil. Chesterton poses this fundamental question: Who is the bigger zealot? Someone who believes in miracles, or someone who goes to whatever lengths necessary not to?
120) Thackeray
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Excerpt: "Amid all the eulogies and all the slanders that are lavished upon the English character, very few people would appear to take any real trouble to obtain a sincere view of it. Rhetorical phrases about its inarticulate strength and nobility do not commonly bring us very much further, for it may be questioned whether it is good for a people excitedly to articulate their own inarticulate disposition. But, when all is said and done, it may truly...