LIBROS DEL AUTOR: g k chesterton

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  • The Man Who Was Thursday
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
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  • The Man Who Was Thursday
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
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  • Heretics
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    2011 Reprint of 1905 Edition. This work was written as a companion to Chesterton’s more famous work, 'Orthodoxy’. In 'Heretics', Chesterton makes the point that Westerners live in a world that celebrates rebels who step out of the norm and critique long held traditions and beliefs. In some cases, these rebels call attention to wrongs and abuses such as segregation and slaver...
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    11,35 €

  • Orthodoxy
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  • Orthodoxy
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  • Eugenics and Other Evils
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    G K Chesterton wrote 'Eugenics and Other Evils' over 90 years ago, as a warning against the new 'science' of eugenics. It was a bold act at a time when US president Woodrow Wilson was an avid supporter of 'scientific breeding' and even Winston Churchill believed that "the multiplication of the feeble-minded cannot go on unchecked." Wielding his formidabl...
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    11,27 €

  • Outline of Sanity
    G. K. Chesterton
    G. K. Chesterton’s famous thesis explores the subjects of poverty, agriculture, machinery, capital gain, and concentration of wealth from an anti-capitalist viewpoint. This fascinating volume argues the threat to smaller businesses as corporate companies become more dominant. Fiercely relevant almost 100 years after its first publication, The Outline of Sanity is G. K. Cheste...
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  • The Outline of Sanity
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    G. K. Chesterton’s famous thesis explores the subjects of poverty, agriculture, machinery, capital gain, and concentration of wealth from an anti-capitalist viewpoint.This fascinating volume argues the threat to smaller businesses as corporate companies become more dominant. Fiercely relevant almost 100 years after its first publication, The Outline of Sanity is G. K. Chesterto...
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    25,43 €

  • The Everlasting Man
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    'The Everlasting Man' is one of G. K. Chesterton's most respected works, a witty, imaginative and sincere attempt to justify the life of Jesus as a pivotal moment in the history of human spirituality. Dividing the book into two parts, Chesterton looks first at early 'cave men' and the ensuing development of pagan civilization, claiming that such societies ef...
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    10,97 €

  • Manalive
    G. K. Chesterton
    Chesterton’s Manalive is a comedic mystery novel following the misadventures of Innocent Smith. Smith, a 'holy fool' whose eccentricities become the center of a mystery at a London boarding house.Manalive 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. During his first day ...
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    15,36 €

  • What’s Wrong with the World
    G. K. Chesterton
    What Is Wrong With The World is a remarkably perceptive analysis of social and moral issues by British novelist and critic G. K. Chesterton. Chesterton’s style is light and humorous but also deadly serious and philosophical as he provides witty commentary on feminism, education, family, and other topics.'I originally called this book 'What is Wrong,' and it would have satisfied...
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    15,28 €

  • Orthodoxy
    G. K. Chesterton
    Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton is a classic of Christian apologetics. Chesterton considered Orthodoxy a companion to 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. Chesterton presents an original view of Christian religion seeing it a...
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    13,34 €

  • The Everlasting Man
    G. K. Chesterton
    The Everlasting Man is a two-part history of mankind, Christ, and Christianity, by G. K. Chesterton. It is Chesterton’s deliberate rebuttal of H. G. Wells’ Outline of History, which embraced the evolutionary origins of humanity and denied the divinity of Jesus. In Orthodoxy Chesterton detailed his own spiritual journey, in The Everlasting Man he illustrates the spiritual journe...
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  • The Man Who Was Thursday, a Nightmare
    G. K. Chesterton
    The Man Who Was Thursday, A Nightmare metaphysical thriller and Chesterton’s most famous novel. The story revolves around Gabriel Syme, a poet, a policeman recruited to a secret anti-anarchist task force at Scotland Yard to infiltrate a secret organization of anarchists.The Man Who Was Thursday follows the twentieth-century nonsense-fantastical tradition of Lewis Carroll and Ed...
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    12,25 €

  • St Thomas Aquinas
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    The scion of a noble Italian family, Tommaso of Aquino turned his back on privilege and - to the consternation of his family - took the strict vows of a Dominican friar. G. K. Chesterton's biography views the life of this saint through the glass of the historical and revolutionary changes he brought about as one of the most influential thinkers of his day. Chesterton explor...
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    10,58 €

  • Orthodoxy
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Gilbert K Chesterton is probably best known today for his 'Father Brown' novels, but he was one of the Victorian era's most influential authors, with poetry, essays, and over 100 books to his credit. 'Orthodoxy' is Chesterton's defence of traditional Christianity, and charts his own journey from skepticism to acceptance in a series of beautifully written...
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    10,55 €

  • Heretics (Aziloth Books)
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Famous in our own time as the author of the 'Father Brown' detective stories, Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a highly respected Victorian author, and on his frequent lecture tours met with many 'progressive' and 'free-thinking' philosophies, such as those expounded by H G Wells, Rudyard Kipling and George Bernard Shaw. 'Heretics' is a rebuttal of a...
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  • Heretics
    G. K. Chesterton
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 - 14 June 1936) was an English writer. His prolific and diverse output included philosophy, ontology, poetry, playwrighting, journalism, public lecturing and debating, literary and art criticism, biography, fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction and Christian apologetics. In Heretics Chesterton discusses the importance of orthodox...
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    17,58 €

  • 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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    29,18 €

  • The Everlasting Man
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  • The Man Who Was Thursday
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    2011 Reprint of 1908 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. 'The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare' is a novel by G. K. Chesterton, first published in 1908. The book is sometimes referred to as a metaphysical thriller. Although it deals with anarchists, the novel is not an exploration or rebuttal of anarchist thought; ...
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    8,78 €

  • Four Faultless Felons
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Journalist Asa Lee Pinion pursues the elusive Count Raoul De Marillac, on the way he encounters four of the Count’s friends calling themselves ''The Club of Men Misunderstood''. The men tell of their black and revolting crimes and how these deeds gained them the dubious honour of being made to appear worse than they are. This book is the third and final of the Mysterious Island...
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    26,43 €

  • St. Thomas Aquinas
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    From the prominent English writer and philosopher, G. K. Chesterton, this volume details the life and theological thought of the Italian Dominican Priest, St. Thomas Aquinas.St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) was an influential philosopher and theologian of scholasticism. This volume explores his philosophy, known as Thomism, and gives a concise, detailed biography of his life. A c...
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    23,35 €

  • The Man Who Knew Too Much
    G.K. Chesterton / G.KChesterton
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  • The Man Who Knew Too Much
    G.K. Chesterton / G.KChesterton
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    20,88 €

  • The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    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 sister ...
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    17,59 €

  • 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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    21,73 €

  • The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Chesterton’s final collection of detective stories. ...
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    8,64 €

  • Manalive
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
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    20,88 €

  • Manalive
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
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    12,85 €