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  • What’s Wrong with the World
    G K Chesterton
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    21,35 €

  • The Barbarism of Berlin
    G. K. Chesterton
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  • The Selected Tales of Father Brown
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Early 20th century English author Gilbert Keith Chesterton may be best remembered for his stories which feature the character of an English priest and detective named Father Brown. While the character was based on a real life priest who was involved in Chesterton’s own conversion of faith, the adventures and mysteries that Father Brown solves are purely fictional. Collected tog...
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    13,60 €

  • The Man Who Was Thursday
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    First published in 1908, G. K. Chesterton’s “The Man Who Was Thursday” has been described as a metaphysical thriller. It is the story of Gabriel Syme, who is recruited by Scotland Yard as part of an anti-anarchist task force. When he meets Lucian Gregory, a poet and member of a secret society of anarchists, he gains access to the underground movement. The group is lead by a cen...
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    9,98 €

  • All Things Considered (Hardcover)
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    This complete edition of All Things Considered by G.K. Chesterton sees the author show off his critical wit and poise with considerable aplomb.The topics herein range between discussions on human nature and behaviour, to the contemporary affairs which enveloped Edwardian Britain, and even to the practice of chasing one’s hat. Ponderings on a scientific theme, together with disc...
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  • The Man Who Was Thursday
    G.K. Chesterton / G.KChesterton
    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 basis of poetry. Syme demurs, insisting the essence of poetry is not revolution, but rather law. He antagonizes Gregory by asser...
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    20,57 €

  • The Blue Cross
    G.K. Chesterton / G.KChesterton
    Farther Brown may be walking into a trap when he tries to save his soul as his precious Blue Cross is targeted by the notorious criminal Flambeau.Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, often referred to as the prince of paradox. Chesterton is well known for his fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and for his reasoned apologetics. Even some of those who disagree wi...
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  • The Incredulity of Father Brown
    G.K. Chesterton / G.KChesterton
    There was a brief period during which Father Brown enjoyed, or rather did not enjoy, something like fame. He was a nine days’ wonder in the newspapers; he was even a common topic of controversy in the weekly reviews; his exploits were narrated eagerly and inaccurately in any number of clubs and drawing-rooms, especially in America. Incongruous and indeed incredible as it may se...
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    20,49 €

  • The Innocence of Father Brown
    G.K. Chesterton / G.KChesterton
    Father Brown is a short, stumpy Roman Catholic Church priest, formerly of Cobhole in Essex, and now working in London, with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, and an uncanny insight into human evil.Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, often referred to as the prince of paradox. Chesterton is well known for his fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and for his...
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  • The Scandal of Father Brown
    G.K. Chesterton / G.KChesterton
    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 pri...
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    20,54 €

  • The Secret of Father Brown
    G.K. Chesterton / G.KChesterton
    Flambeau, once the most famous criminal in France and later a very private detective in England, had long retired from both professions. Some say a career of crime had left him with too many scruples for a career of detection. Anyhow, after a life of romantic escapes and tricks of evasion, he had ended at what some might consider an appropriate address...Gilbert Keith Chesterto...
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  • The Wisdom of Father Brown
    G.K. Chesterton / G.KChesterton
    Two men appeared simultaneously at the two ends of a sort of passage running along the side of the Apollo Theatre in the Adelphi. The evening daylight in the streets was large and luminous, opalescent and empty. The passage was comparatively long and dark, so each man could see the other as a mere black silhouette at the other end. Nevertheless, each man knew the other, even in...
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    20,46 €

  • The Napoleon of Notting Hill
    G.K. Chesterton / G.KChesterton
    The dreary succession of randomly selected Kings of England is broken up when Auberon Quin, who cares for nothing but a good joke, is chosen. To amuse himself, he institutes elaborate costumes for the provosts of the districts of London. All are bored by the King's antics except for one earnest young man who takes the cry for regional pride seriously – Adam Wayne, the epony...
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  • A Short History of England
    G KChesterton / G. K. Chesterton
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 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 "prince of paradox". Time magazine has observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, a...
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    17,62 €

  • Manalive
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    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, “The Enigma of Innocent Smith,” concerns the arrival of a new tenant at Beacon House, a London boarding establishment. Like Mary Poppins, th...
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    28,31 €

  • Manalive
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    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, “The Enigma of Innocent Smith,” concerns the arrival of a new tenant at Beacon House, a London boarding establishment. Like Mary Poppins, th...
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    17,69 €

  • Orthodoxy
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    A classic of Christian apologetics, the branch of Christian theology which seeks to offer reasoned defenses for Christianity against its objectors, G. K. Chesterton’s “Orthodoxy” is one of the author’s most enduring works. A self-described pagan and agnostic in his youth, Chesterton describes in this work how he came to believe in the importance of his own personal belief in Ch...
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  • The Companion Apologies
    G.K. Chesterton / G.KChesterton
    Hardcover volume containing G.K. Chesterton's great companion apologies Heretics & Orthodoxy.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 remai...
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    17,43 €

  • Father Brown
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Father Brown ist ein Geistlicher, der mit psychologischem Einfühlungsvermögen und durch logische Schlüsse auch die scheinbar mysteriösesten Kriminalfälle löst. Im Gegensatz zu anderen bekannten Romanhelden wie Sherlock Holmes und Agatha Christies Hercule Poirot steht bei Brown nicht so sehr die äußere Logik des Tatherganges, sondern die innere Logik und Motivation des Täters im...
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    6,83 €

  • Der Mann, der Donnerstag war (Politthriller)
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    The Man Who Was Thursday von 1908 (Der Mann, der Donnerstag war) ist eine politische Satire, die der Phantastischen Literatur zugerechnet werden kann: Ein Komplott anarchistischer Terroristen am Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts entwickelt sich darin, unter zunehmender Verfremdung der Wirklichkeit, in ein verrückt-göttliches Spektakel. Wie in anderen seiner Schriften wendet sich Ches...
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    5,42 €

  • Weihnachtskrimis
    Arthur Conan Doyle / Edgar Wallace / G. K. Chesterton
    Tannenbaum, heise Schokolade, Schnee draußen und eine spannende Krimi-Sammlung, die Sie in Ihrem warmen Sessel lesen können. Gibt es überhaupt eine bessere Art und Weise, die Feiertage zu verbringen? Inhalt: • Der blaue Karfunkel (Arthur Conan Doyle) • Holmes' erstes Abenteuer (Arthur Conan Doyle) • Das Diamantenklavier (Edgar Wallace) • Neues vom Hexer (Edgar Wallace) • Die St...
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    9,50 €

  • The Wisdom of Father Brown
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Father Brown’s powers of detection allow him to sit beside the immortal Holmes but he is also, to quote Rufus King, ’in all senses a most pleasantly fascinating human being.’ You will be enchanted by the scandalously innocent man of the cloth, with the umbrella, who exhibits such uncanny insight into ingeniously tricky human problems. ...
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    27,96 €

  • Orthodoxy
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    In Orthodoxy, Gilbert K. Chesterton explains how and why he came to believe in Christianity and more specifically the Catholic Church’s brand of orthodoxy. 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 fulfills human needs. This is the truth revealed in Christianity. ...
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    36,92 €

  • The Everlasting Man Complete and Unabridged
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    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. Wells’ Outline of History, which embraced both the evolutionary origins of humanity and the mortal humanity of Jesus. Whereas Orthodoxy detailed Chesterton’s own spiritual journey, this book illustrates the s...
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    36,98 €

  • The Man Who Knew Too Much
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    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 tweeds, with very pale curly hair and pale clear eyes. Walking in wind and sun in the very landscape of liberty, he was still yo...
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  • The Three Apologies of G.K. Chesterton
    G.K. Chesterton / G.KChesterton
    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...
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    33,55 €

  • A Christmas Garland / Woven by Max Beerbohm
    Max Beerbohm / G. K. (Gilbert Keith) 1874- Chesterton / GK(Gilbert Keith) 1874- Chesterton
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...
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    20,88 €

  • Thoughts From G. K. Chesterton
    Elsie E Morton / G K. 1874-1936 Chesterton / G K1874-1936 Chesterton
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...
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    15,05 €

  • Poems
    G K. 1874-1936. Essay Chesterton / G K1874-1936Essay Chesterton / John Ruskin
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...
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    20,82 €

  • The Complete Father Brown Mysteries
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    The Complete Father Brown Mysteries includes 24 stories featuring G. K. Chesterton’s eponymous Roman Catholic sleuth. These mysteries are the original source material for the current hit BBC TV show Father Brown starring Mark Williams. ...
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