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  • 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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    38,81 €

  • Menschenskind - Ein Sonderling der anderen Art
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Aus dem Buch: 'Der Mann in dem gediegenen seidenen Zylinder war die Verkörperung seidiger Geschmeidigkeit und Gediegenheit. Er war ein großer, glatter, gelangweilt aussehender (und wie manche sagten, langweiliger) Mann mit glattem, blondem Haar und schönen, aber ausdruckslosen Gesichtszügen, ein junger, erfolgreicher Arzt namens Warner. Obgleich seine Glattheit und Blondheit zu...
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    5,36 €

  • Father Brown (Gesammelte Krimis)
    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 - Ein Komplott anarchistischer Terroristen
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Der Roman The Man Who Was Thursday von 1908 (dt. 1910 als 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 Sch...
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    5,42 €

  • The Man Who Was Thursday
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    G.K. Chesterton was one of the most prolific writers of the 20th century, writing across numerous genres. His many newspaper columns, his detective stories, his philosophical analysis, and his theological exposition once made him a household name. Though not as well known today, each generation discovers Chesterton anew, and in doing so, finds that Chesterton's writings, ev...
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    21,03 €

  • The Man Who Was Thursday
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    G.K. Chesterton was one of the most prolific writers of the 20th century, writing across numerous genres. His many newspaper columns, his detective stories, his philosophical analysis, and his theological exposition once made him a household name. Though not as well known today, each generation discovers Chesterton anew, and in doing so, finds that Chesterton's writings, ev...
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    13,02 €

  • The Man Who Knew Too Much
    G.K. Chesterton / G.KChesterton
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    16,59 €

  • Manalive
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    2017 Reprint of 1912 Edition.  Manalive (1912) is a book by G. K. Chesterton detailing a popular theme both in his own philosophy, and in Christianity, that 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 Lond...
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    9,65 €

  • The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    Considered to be the last picaresque novel he wrote, Charles Dickens’s “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit” was originally published as a serial between 1842 and 1844. One of his lesser-known literary works, it follows the story of two brothers, Martin and Jonas Chuzzlewit, who are driven to a life of crime and degeneracy thanks to a seemingly inherited selfishness an...
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    48,30 €

  • The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby“ was Charles Dickens’s third novel, published as a serial between 1838 and 1839. The story revolves around young Mr Nickleby, whose responsibility it is to support his sister and mother following the demise of his father. A classic example of Dickens’s ironic social satire that will not disappoint fans of his much-loved work. Charle...
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    44,82 €

  • The Cricket on the Hearth - A Fairy Tale of Home
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    'The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home' is a novella by Charles Dickens and the third in his 'Christmas Books' series published after 'The Chimes (1844) and before 'The Battle of Life' (1846). Dickens’s Christmas novels perfectly enraptured the spirit of the Victorian Christmas revival and even inspired a number of traditional aspects of the holiday, including seasona...
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    33,03 €

  • The Innocence of Father Brown
    G. K. Chesterton
    First published in 1911, The Innocence of Father Brown is the first of G. K. Chesterton's mystery anthologies featuring his eponymous Roman Catholic sleuth. There are twelve Father Brown mysteries in this collection:The Blue Cross, The Secret Garden, The Queer Feet, The Flying Stars, The Invisible Man, The Honour of Israel Gow, The Wrong Shape, The Sins of Prince Saradine, ...
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    28,37 €

  • The Wisdom of Father Brown
    G. K. Chesterton
    First published in 1914, The Wisdom of Father Brown is the second of G. K. Chesterton's mystery anthologies featuring his eponymous Roman Catholic sleuth. There are twelve Father Brown mysteries in this collection: The Absence of Mr Glass, The Paradise of Thieves, The Duel of Dr Hirsch, The Man in the Passage, The Mistake of the Machine, The Head of Caesar, The Purple Wig, Th...
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    30,80 €

  • Orthodoxy
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    When Theology Butted Up Against the Real WorldOrthodoxy (1908) 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, writing it expressly in response to G.S. Street’s criticism of the earlier work, ''that he was not going to bother about his theology until I had really stated mi...
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    16,40 €

  • 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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    25,57 €

  • 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. Chesterton’s priest-sleuth was loosely based on Father John O’Connor, a parish priest in Bradford, who was involved in Chesterton’s conversi...
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    40,02 €

  • All Things Considered
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton, (29 May 1874 - 14 June 1936) better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English writer, lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and Christian apologist. Chesterton is often referred to as the 'prince of paradox.' Time magazine has observed of his writing style: 'Whenever possible Chesterton m...
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    15,14 €

  • G.K.C. as M.C.
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    This collection of thirty-seven essays by G. K. Chesterton was first collected in 1929 and constitutes the cream of introductions and prefaces he had contributed by that date. Some of them, such as his startling essay on Job, are well known, but most of them have not seen the light of day since this volume drifted into obscurity. Some of these pieces are about people as well kn...
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    44,25 €

  • G.K.C. as M.C.
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    This collection of thirty-seven essays by G. K. Chesterton was first collected in 1929 and constitutes the cream of introductions and prefaces he had contributed by that date. Some of them, such as his startling essay on Job, are well known, but most of them have not seen the light of day since this volume drifted into obscurity. Some of these pieces are about people as well kn...
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    61,34 €

  • What’s Wrong With the World
    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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    36,38 €

  • The Everlasting Man
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    2014 Reprint of Original 1925 edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. 'The Everlasting Man' is a work of Christian apologetics first published in 1925. Chesterton intended it to some extent as a deliberate rebuttal to H. G. Wells’ 'The Outline of History', disputing Wells’ portrayals of human life and civilization as a seamless development from animal life...
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    11,86 €

  • The Everlasting Man
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    This early work by G. K. Chesterton was originally published in 1925 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. In this book, Chesterton explores the relationship between Evolution and Christianity, the growth and role of the Church, as well as providing an in-depth analysis of Paganism. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London in 1874. He studie...
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    29,49 €

  • Saint Francis of Assisi
    G. K. Chesterton
    This edition offers all of G. K. Chesterton’s insight, humor, and wit as he uncovers the real meaning of the life of the world’s most popular saint. All Francis’s life was a series of plunges and scampers, darting after the beggar, dashing naked into the woods, tossing himself into the strange ship, and hurling himself into the Sultan’s tent. In appearance he must have been lik...
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    12,55 €

  • A Short History of England
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - ~~~~~~It will be very reasonably asked why I should consent, though upon a sort of challenge, to write even a popular essay in English history, who make no pretence to particular scholarship and am merely a member of...
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    14,87 €

  • A Short History of England
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - ~~~~~~It will be very reasonably asked why I should consent, though upon a sort of challenge, to write even a popular essay in English history, who make no pretence to particular scholarship and am merely a member of...
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    30,73 €

  • The Everlasting Man
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    'The best popular apologetic I know.' -C. S. Lewis In 1925, just three years after his reception into the Catholic Church, G.K. Chesterton published a work that proclaimed anew to the doubters of the age that the key to history had arrived nearly two thousand years before. Contra the evolutionists, he first points to the singular nature of man from his very beginnings; and, lat...
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    13,36 €

  • Orthodoxy
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    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 presents an...
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    16,28 €

  • 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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    11,67 €

  • All Is Grist - A Book of Essays
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    This early work by G. K. Chesterton was originally published in 1903. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London in 1874. ’All is Grist’ is a collection of essays. 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 philosoph...
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    32,51 €

  • Generally Speaking - A Book of Essays
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    This early work by G. K. Chesterton was originally published in 1903. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London in 1874. ’Generally Speaking’ is a collection of essays. 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 phi...
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    33,36 €


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