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  • Orthodoxy
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    In Orthodoxy, Gilbert K. Chesterton explains how and why he came to believe in Christianity. 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. Chesterton likens this discovery to a man setting off from the sou...
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    37,36 €

  • The Wit, Whimsy, and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton, Volume 3
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    This volume includes two classic G. K. Chesterton novels, and his play, Magic. The Ball and the Cross is a religio-political fantasy, as a Catholic and an atheist try to keep ahead of the law in order to fight a duel. Manalive brings a man on trial, where nothing is as it seems. (It is a brilliant commentary on a man in search of himself and what he truly values.) Magic: A Fant...
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    24,46 €

  • What’s Wrong with the World
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    In the aptly titled treatise What’s Wrong With the World, one of the twentieth century’s most memorable and prolific writers takes on education, government, big business, feminism, and a host of other topics. A steadfast champion of the working man, family, and faith, Chesterton eloquently opposed materialism, snobbery, hypocrisy, and any adversary of freedom and simplicity in ...
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    19,39 €

  • The Incredulity of Father Brown (Warbler Classics)
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    G. K. Chesterton’s celebrity priest-detective returns in The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926), the third of five collections of short stories featuring Father Brown. The book begins with reports of Father Brown’s death in 'The Resurrection of Father Brown' and includes the popular tales 'The Curse of the Golden Cross,' 'The Doom of the Darnaways,' and 'The Ghost of Gideon Wis...
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    9,03 €

  • The Everlasting Man
    G. K. Chesterton / Gilbert Keith Chesterton / GKChesterton
    2021 Reprint of the 1925 Edition. The Everlasting Man is a one of Chesterton’s better-known works in Christian apologetics. It is, to some extent, a deliberate rebuttal of H. G. Wells’ The Outline of History, disputing Wells’ portrayals of human life and civilization as a seamless development from animal life and of Jesus Christ as merely another charismatic figure. Chesterton ...
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    10,11 €

  • The Flying Inn
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    When the government cracks down on alcohol sales, two men decide to leave their small fishing village to avoid the law and find new opportunities. The Flying Inn is an irreverent satire that delivers a unique commentary on power and politics. Humphrey Pump, also known as 'Hump,' is a bar owner whose business is undercut by strict alcohol regulations. Adult beverages can only be...
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    20,06 €

  • The Wisdom of Father Brown
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Father Brown is an insightful sleuth who travels far and wide to solve a new set of mysteries that require his unique skills and wisdom. This selection of short stories also includes a variety of locales from Italy to Cornwall and everywhere in between. Once again, Father Brown has found himself at the center of the action. The Wisdom of Father Brown is the follow-up to G.K. Ch...
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    18,54 €

  • Tremendous Trifles
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Tremendous Trifles is comprised of 39 chapters, each functioning as their own essay or story. With whimsical, light-hearted prose, vivid figurative language, and unparalleled insight, Chesterton covers a variety of philosophical principles of everyday life. Chesterton often used ordinary events and objects to explain deeper matters. Using relatable and accessible examples, Trem...
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    17,77 €

  • The Ballad of the White Horse
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    G. K. Chesterton’s 'The Ballad of the White Horse' is the last great epic poem written in the English tradition. First published in 1911, it tells the heroic tale of Saxon King Alfred the Great and his defeat of the invading Viking army at the Battle of Ethandun. While Chesterton’s work was not intended to be completely historically accurate, it is a deeply evocative and detail...
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    8,36 €

  • The Everlasting Man
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    The Everlasting Man, written by Gilbert Keith Chesterton in 1925, is on the surface a response to H.G. Wells’s The Outline of History, in which Wells ultimately argues for the theory of evolution over creationism. On closer review, rather than finding a typical discussion of faith and the mysteries of God as a response to the theory of evolution, readers will find Chesterton’s ...
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    23,68 €

  • The Innocence of Father Brown
    G. K. Chesterton / G.KChesterton / GKChesterton
    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. The Innocence of Father Brown is the first of five collections of mystery stories by G.K. Chesterton which first appeared in 1911. Modest...
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    17,72 €

  • The Everlasting Man
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    'In 1920, H.G. Wells wrote a two-volume work which became a best-seller, The Outline of History . . . Why not engage the same subject matter Wells had taken up, but from a perspective fully appreciative of the unique place Christianity held in human history? The result is The Everlasting Man.' ~ From Kevin Belmonte’s IntroductionIn The Everlasting Man, a humorous defense of Chr...
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    15,49 €

  • El candor del padre Brown
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Doce relatos componen este volumen con el que el divertido y paradójico Gilbert Keith Chesterton dio a conocer al Padre Brown. Este cura católico, de aspecto insignificante y candoroso, tiene un cerebro privilegiado y una intuición singular para leer en los recovecos del corazón humano. Pero su bondad natural le impide juzgar y condenar: descubre el delito, pero intenta «salvar...
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    19,90 €

  • El hombre que fue jueves
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    El hombre que fue jueves es quizás la novela más popular de G. K. Chesterton y fue publicada en 1908. Aunque trata del anarquismo, la novela podría considerarse como una exploración, no necesariamente una refutación de la filosofía anarquista; de hecho, podría tomarse como una especie de intento novelado de rebelión contra Dios, y como tal, estar basado en muchos aspectos del e...
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    19,90 €

  • St. Francis of Assisi
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    St. Francis of Assisi is perhaps the most important of the non-apostle saints. He was born to wealth and privilege in Assisi, Italy in 1181. As a youth he dreamed of military glory and lived the decadent lifestyle one would expect from of a wealthy, young Italian man. In 1202 Francis went off to war and was subsequently captured and spent a year of hardship in Collestrada as a ...
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    28,27 €

  • St. Francis of Assisi
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    St. Francis of Assisi is perhaps the most important of the non-apostle saints. He was born to wealth and privilege in Assisi, Italy in 1181. As a youth he dreamed of military glory and lived the decadent lifestyle one would expect from of a wealthy, young Italian man. In 1202 Francis went off to war and was subsequently captured and spent a year of hardship in Collestrada as a ...
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    11,99 €

  • The Incredulity of Father Brown
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    The Incredulity of Father Brown is a 1926 collection of mystery short stories by English writer G. K. Chesterton.Set in the early twentieth century, each of the stories centers around the cunning investigations of Father Brown, an amateur detective who uses his incredible intuition to solve a variety of perplexing mysteries.The stories include:- ’The Resurrection of Father Brow...
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    22,26 €

  • The Myth of the 'Mayflower'
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    '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, poe...
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    19,87 €

  • Orthodoxy
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    ' Orthodoxy , the book in your hands, came to me after I had already come to understand and love the clarity of Reformed theology. When Chesterton arrived in my intellectual scene, it was like flipping an extra breaker in my soul that turned on the party lights, brought out the dancers, and cued the music.... Orthodoxy is Chesterton’s greatest book, and the greatest gift in thi...
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    14,76 €

  • The Flying Inn
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Chesterton's The Flying Inn is a story of adventure that will capture both new readers and old fans. In this England, a “progressive” political party has pushed in a new prohibition era, where the rich can buy alcohol at a steep price for “medicinal” reasons. These restrictions leave a pub owner named Humphrey Pump empty handed. He comes up with a plan: he roams the country...
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    24,10 €

  • The Club of Queer Trades
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    The brilliant English author G. K. Chesterton, widely known for his style of blending philosophy and theology into his writing, has taken the classic whodunnit genre and turned it upside down with his collection of mysteries, The Club of Queer Trades.Filled with Chesterton’s masterful storytelling and his strong held belief of questioning the truth, The Club of Queer Trades is ...
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    20,66 €

  • Heretics
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Witty and honest about belief in the Christian Faith, Heretics is a collection of essays from the 20th century by the “prince of paradox,” G.K. Chesterton. While recognized as a philosopher as well as a social critic, Chesterton is also considered a lay theologian due to the nature of his content. Along with Heretics, Chesterton has also written apologetics, poetry, and even fa...
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    21,90 €

  • Heretics
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the "prince of paradox".   THIS book is meant to be a companion to “Orthodoxy,” and to put the positive side in addition to the negative. Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) is a writer like none other. As a journalist, he wrote thousands of essa...
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    10,12 €

  • Orthodoxy
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the "prince of paradox".   THIS book is meant to be a companion to “Heretics,” and to put the positive side in addition to the negative. Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) is a writer like none other. As a journalist, he wrote thousands of essay...
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    10,18 €

  • El poeta y los lunáticos
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    El poeta y los lunáticos (1929), aunque se presenta como una novela, en realidad está concebida como una sucesión de episodios que se entrelazan, en los que un loco, el poeta y pintor Gabriel Gale, pone a prueba su increíble capacidad para captar la importancia de detalles que permanecen ocultos o apenas visibles a los ojos de los demás. Las técnicas deductivas que emplea el ex...
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    17,95 €

  • The Club of Queer Trades
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    The Club of Queer Trades is a collection of stories by G. K. Chesterton. Each story in the collection is centered on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means (a 'queer trade'). To gain admittance one must have invented a unique means of earning a living and the subsequent trade being the main source of income.A collection of related short stories ...
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    33,59 €

  • 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 hit BBC TV show Father Brown starring Mark Williams. ...
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    23,73 €

  • 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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    42,29 €

  • Manalive
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    First published in 1912, G. K. Chesterton’s “Manalive” is the fascinating and incredible story of Innocent Smith, a man who can be described as a “holy fool”. Innocent arrives at Beacon House, a London boarding establishment, and breathes new life into the residents with his games and antics. All in one day he creates the “High Court of Beacon”, decides to elope with one of the...
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    9,99 €

  • The Man Who Knew Too Much
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    The Man Who Knew Too Much and other stories includes twelve G. K. Chesterton mysteries, the first eight of which are about ’The Man Who Knew Too Much,’ while the final four are individual stories featuring separate heroes and detectives. ...
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    12,81 €


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