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  • The Man Who Knew Too Much
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
    The Man Who Knew Too Much and other stories (1922) is a book of detective stories by English writer G. K. Chesterton, published in 1922 by Cassell and Company in the United Kingdom, and Harper Brothers in the United States.The book contains eight connected short stories about "The Man Who Knew Too Much", and additional unconnected stories featuring separate heroes/detectives. T...
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    28,25 €

  • 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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    28,38 €

  • The Wisdom 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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    28,25 €

  • 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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    17,58 €

  • The Wisdom 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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    17,63 €

  • The Innocence 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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    17,56 €

  • 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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    29,53 €

  • The Innocence 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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    29,48 €

  • 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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    16,44 €

  • The Man Who Knew Too Much
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
    The Man Who Knew Too Much and other stories (1922) is a book of detective stories by English writer G. K. Chesterton, published in 1922 by Cassell and Company in the United Kingdom, and Harper Brothers in the United States.The book contains eight connected short stories about "The Man Who Knew Too Much", and additional unconnected stories featuring separate heroes/detectives. T...
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    17,63 €

  • What I saw in America
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (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, a...
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    29,43 €

  • Tremendous Trifles
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (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, a...
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    28,25 €

  • 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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    17,48 €

  • Tremendous Trifles
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (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, a...
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    17,61 €

  • 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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    29,45 €

  • Eugenics and Other Evils
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
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    17,68 €

  • 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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    17,52 €

  • What’s Wrong With the World?
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (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, a...
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    17,52 €

  • What’s Wrong With the World?
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (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, a...
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    29,47 €

  • 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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    17,64 €

  • 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 det...
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    28,26 €

  • 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 presen...
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    28,22 €

  • 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 Man Who Knew Too Much
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
    Mixing theology and detective mystery, this book of short stories central around the same character and the struggles of his philosophical and theological ideas as he struggles with the politicians and criminals around him in whether a decision is the best for the greater good or else whether greater chaos will ensue. This book is an exciting read for any lover of detective fic...
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    20,90 €

  • 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 €

  • The Man Who Knew Too Much
    Gilbert K. Chesterton / Gilbert KChesterton
    Please visit www.ArcManor.com for more books by this and other great authors. ...
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    7,32 €

  • 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 €


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