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  • The Defendant
    G. K. Chesterton / Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton / GKChesterton
    Varied Types is a collection of essays by G.K. Chesterton that offers a series of insightful and often humorous portraits of notable figures from literature, history, and society. Chesterton’s keen observations and sharp wit shine through as he examines the personalities and ideas of figures such as Charlotte Brontë, Alfred the Great, and Sir Walter Scott, among others. This co...
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    11,13 €

  • The Man Who Was Thursday
    Gilbert KChesterton / Gilbert Chesterton K. / Gilbert KChesterton
    ’The Man Who Was Thursday’ is a novel by G.K. Chesterton, first published in 1908. The book has been referred to 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...
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    17,70 €

  • El hombre que sabía demasiado
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
    Chesterton cuenta en este libro un suceso extraordinario que entrelaza las vidas de los dos protagonistas, Horne Fisher y Harold March. El primero es un personaje culto con un extraordinario don para resolver misterios y March es un joven periodista político. Mientras conversan cerca de un arroyo a la espera de reunirse con el ministro de economía en una casa de campo son testi...
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    19,90 €

  • The Everlasting Man
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
    First published in 1925, 'The Everlasting Man' by G. K. Chesterton is a powerful argument against the theories of evolution and comparative religion. Chesterton deeply disagreed with the view of animal and human evolution popularized by 'The Outline of History' written by H. G. Wells in 1919. Wells argued that human civilization was nothing more than a logical progression from ...
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    12,28 €

  • St. Francis of Assisi
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
    Saint Francis of Assisi is the founder of the Franciscan Order and one of the most influential figures of medieval Christian history. First published in 1923, G. K. Chesterton’s “St. Francis of Assisi” is considered by many to be the definitive biography of the beloved religious leader and saint. Saint Francis was born to a prosperous merchant family and lived his early life ca...
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    9,70 €

  • El regreso de Don Quijote
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
    El regreso de don Quijote (1926) es la última novela de Chesterton y uno de los más hermosos homenajes que jamás se hayan rendido al Quijote y a Cervantes. En esta peculiar obra Chesterton da rienda suelta a su fabulosa imaginación, aunque sin despegar los pies del suelo, y crea un puñado de personajes únicos, signados todos por el sello del quijotismo: el bibliotecario loco qu...
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    19,99 €

  • Heretics
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the "prince of paradox". Time magazine observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out."Chesterton c...
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    16,27 €

  • The Everlasting Man
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
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  • Orthodoxy
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
    This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve ...
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    11,47 €

  • The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
    The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond is G. K. Chesterton's final collection of detective stories, published after his death in 1936. The main characters in the book are Mr. Pond, his friend Captain Peter Gahagan, a romantic and impulsive Irishman, and a well-known government official, Sir Hubert Wotton. Also mentioned in more than one chapter are Violet Varney, an actress, and her sis...
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    16,30 €

  • Heretics
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
    “Nothing more strangely indicates an enormous and silent evil of modern society than the extraordinary use which is made nowadays of the word ‘orthodox’. In former days the heretic was proud of not being a heretic. It was the kingdoms of the world and the police and the judges who were heretics. He was orthodox.” So begins “Heretics” by Gilbert K. Chesterton and his examination...
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    9,97 €

  • Manalive
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
    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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    16,38 €

  • Orthodoxy
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton, (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, allegor...
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    16,29 €

  • Heretics
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
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    12,24 €

  • The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
    The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond is G. K. Chesterton's final collection of detective stories, published after his death in 1936.The main characters in the book are Mr. Pond, his friend Captain Peter Gahagan, a romantic and impulsive Irishman, and a well-known government official, Sir Hubert Wotton. Also mentioned in more than one chapter are Violet Varney, an actress, and her sist...
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    17,61 €

  • The Scandal of Father Brown
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
    Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective who is featured in 53 short stories published between 1910 and 1936 written by English novelist G. K. Chesterton. Father Brown solves mysteries and crimes using his intuition and keen understanding of human nature. Chesterton loosely based him on the Rt Rev. Msgr. John O'Connor (1870–1952), a parish pri...
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    12,34 €

  • The Secret of Father Brown
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
    Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective who is featured in 53 short stories published between 1910 and 1936 written by English novelist G. K. Chesterton. Father Brown solves mysteries and crimes using his intuition and keen understanding of human nature. Chesterton loosely based him on the Rt Rev. Msgr. John O'Connor (1870–1952), a parish pri...
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    12,36 €

  • The Club of Queer Trades (The Club of Peculiar Trades)
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
    Each story in the collection is centered on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means (a "queer trade", using the word "queer" in the sense of "peculiar"). To gain admittance one must have invented a unique means of earning a living and the subsequent trade being the main source of income. ...
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    12,36 €

  • The Ballad of the White Horse
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
    The Ballad of the White Horse is a poem by G. K. Chesterton about the idealised exploits of the Saxon King Alfred the Great, published in 1911. Written in ballad form, the work has been described as one of the last great traditional epic poems ever written in the English language. The poem narrates how Alfred was able to defeat the invading Danes at the Battle of Ethandun under...
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    11,21 €

  • What I saw in America
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
    “Let me begin my American impressions with two impressions I had before I went to America. One was an incident and the other an idea; and when taken together they illustrate the attitude I mean. The first principle is that nobody should be ashamed of thinking a thing funny because it is foreign; the second is that he should be ashamed of thinking it wrong because it is funny.” ...
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    12,26 €

  • Eugenics and Other Evils
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
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    12,45 €

  • The Ball and The Cross
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
    The Ball and the Cross is a novel by G. K. Chesterton. The title refers to a more worldly and rationalist worldview, represented by a ball or sphere, and the cross representing Christianity. The first chapters of the book were serialized from 1905 to 1906 with the completed work published in 1909. The novel's beginning involves debates about rationalism and religion between...
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    12,30 €

  • The Napoleon of Notting Hill
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
    The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a novel written by G. K. Chesterton in 1904, set in a nearly unchanged London in 1984.Although the novel is set in the future, it is, in effect, set in an alternative reality of Chesterton's own period, with no advances in technology or changes in the class system or attitudes. It postulates an impersonal government, not described in any deta...
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    12,41 €

  • Orthodoxy
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
    Orthodoxy  is a book by G. K. Chesterton that has become a classic of Christian apologetics. Chesterton considered this book a companion to his other work, Heretics. In the book's preface Chesterton states the purpose is to "attempt an explanation, not of whether the Christian faith can be believed, but of how he personally has come to believe it." In it, Chesterton present...
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    17,60 €

  • The Napoleon of Notting Hill
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
    When a new king is selected and Auberon Quin is randomly chosen, he institutes a series of reforms that many of his new leaders find boring and childish. While Quin enjoys a good joke, a young leader named Adam Wayne takes things very seriously even going to war with neighbouring boroughs. Although written mainly as a comedic work, Chesterton philosophically explores the action...
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    18,46 €

  • Heretics
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
    Constantly in today’s world, the Church has had to deal with a growing threat to its stability, that of rebellion against the very word of God in such a strong force that saying anything about the Bible in public forums brings a mass of abuse from the public. Chesterton recognized that this was happening back in his day and tried to address going concerns. The issues he raised ...
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    20,94 €

  • George Bernard Shaw
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
    ''George Bernard Shaw'' by Gilbert K. Chesterton is a biographical work that explores the life and career of the famous playwright and political activist, George Bernard Shaw. Chesterton, a renowned writer and critic himself, delves into Shaw’s upbringing, his early career as a journalist, and his eventual rise to fame as a playwright. He also examines Shaw’s political beliefs ...
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    32,42 €