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  • What’s wrong with the world
    G.K Chesterton
    'Now (to reiterate my title) this is what is wrong. This is the huge modern heresy of altering the human soul to fit its conditions, instead of altering human conditions to fit the human soul. If soap boiling is really inconsistent with brotherhood, so much the worst for soap-boiling, not for brotherhood. If civilization really cannot get on with democracy, so much the worse fo...
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    21,24 €

  • Heretics and Orthodoxy
    G.K Chesterton
    Heretics, a collection of 20 essays originally published in 1905, is one of Chesterton’s most important books. It is a work that serves to point out the ’heresies’ contained within the popular veins of thought surrounding him in society. The topics he touches upon range from cosmology to anthropology to soteriology and he argues against French nihilism, German humanism, English...
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  • Heretics and Orthodoxy
    G.K Chesterton
    Heretics, a collection of 20 essays originally published in 1905, is one of Chesterton’s most important books. It is a work that serves to point out the ’heresies’ contained within the popular veins of thought surrounding him in society. The topics he touches upon range from cosmology to anthropology to soteriology and he argues against French nihilism, German humanism, English...
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    17,82 €

  • 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 €

  • The Innocence of Father Brown
    G. K. Chesterton
    Between the silver ribbon of morning and the green glittering ribbon of sea, the boat touched Harwich and let loose a swarm of folk like flies, among whom the man we must follow was by no means conspicuous-nor wished to be. There was nothing notable about him, except a slight contrast between the holiday gaiety of his clothes and the official gravity of his face. His clothes in...
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    17,76 €

  • The Man Who Was Thursday
    G. K. Chesterton
    'G. K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday is a wacky, nightmarish, deliriously well-written adventure story for grownups in which nothing is what it seems and everyone wears a mask, whether figurative or literal. It’s hard to think of a more thrilling book.' -Kate Christensen, TIME Magazine’s Summer Reading List 2009. First published in 1908, G. K. Chesterton’s 'The Man Who...
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  • The Napoleon of Notting Hill
    G. K. Chesterton
    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 DETAIL, ...
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    17,97 €

  • The Wisdom of Father Brown
    G. K. Chesterton
    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.[1] 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 prie...
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    17,85 €

  • 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 €

  • Catholic and Anti-Catholic history
    G. K. Chesterton / Hilaire Belloc
    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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    6,36 €

  • Catholic and Anti-Catholic history
    G. K. Chesterton / Hilaire Belloc
    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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    13,89 €

  • What’s Wrong With The World
    G. K. Chesterton
    What’s Wrong With The World By G. K. ChestertonRenewal of interest in the work of GK Chesterton continues apace. The writer whose career began when he dictated his first story to his aunt Rose at the age of three started early and aimed high, and his intellectual development was among the more conspicuously interesting of the Edwardian age. His Orthodoxy of 1908 has become a s...
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    18,02 €

  • 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 €

  • The Ballad of the White Horse
    G.K. Chesterton / G.KChesterton
    The Ballad of the White Horse is one of the most important works of English literature. This large epic poem is a highly romanticized account of the adventures of King Alfred the Great, King of Saxon Britain and the battle of Ethandune (Edington ). It tells mainly the mythical and to some extent the historical past of the conflict between Christianity and the forces of paganism...
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    16,37 €

  • 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 €

  • The Innocence of Father Brown (unabridged)
    G.K. Chesterton
    Immortalized in these famous stories, G.K. Chesterton’s endearing amateur sleuth has entertained countless generations of readers. For, his admirers know, Father Brown’s cherubic face and unworldly simplicity, his glasses and his huge umbrella, disguise a quite uncanny nderstanding of the criminal mind at work. ...
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    18,92 €

  • 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 €

  • 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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    45,14 €

  • The Mystery of Edwin Drood
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    Charles Dickens’s last and unfinished novel, “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” was originally published in 1870. When Dickens died in 1870, just six of the intended twelve chapters had been completed, with no remaining plan or indication to how the story should continue. Despite this, numerous other writers have tried to complete the novel. The story revolves around the titular char...
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    36,63 €

  • Hard Times
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    The tenth novel written by Dickens, “Hard Times” was first published in 1854. The story is set in the fictitious Victorian industrial mill-town of Coketown and examines English society while satirising the social and economic conditions of the era. Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812–1870) was an English writer and social critic famous for having created some of the world’s most ...
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    36,52 €

  • Barnaby Rudge
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    Originally published as a serial in “Master Humphrey’s Clock” between 1840–1841, Dickens historical novel “Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty” is mainly set during the Gordon Riots of 1780, several days of rioting in Great Britain sparked by anti-Catholic sentiment. Highly recommended for fans of historical fiction and the much-loved work of Charles Dickens. This cl...
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    37,72 €

  • The Chimes - A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year in
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    'The Chimes' is an 1844 novella by Charles Dickens. First published one year after 'A Christmas Carol' in 1844, it represents the second of his famous 'Christmas books', which include 'A Christmas Carol', 'The Cricket on the Hearth', 'The Battle of Life', and 'The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain'. After poor working-class man Trotty loses his faith in humanity, he is visite...
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    25,94 €

  • 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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    25,93 €

  • Dombey and Son
    Charles Dickens / G. K. Chesterton
    “Dombey and Son” is a novel by English author Charles Dickens, originally published as a serial between 1846 and 1848. The story revolves around the owner of a shipping company who is disgruntled by his lack of a male heir, rejecting his daughter and her love until reconciliating shortly before her death. Including many common Dickensian themes such as betrayal, deceit, class, ...
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    43,96 €


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