LIBROS DEL AUTOR: g k chesterton

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  • La sabiduría del Padre Brown
    G. K. Chesterton
    La sabiduría del padre Brown, segundo título de los cinco que pertenecen a la serie completa del padre Brown, reúne los siguientes casos: La ausencia del Señor Glass, El paraíso de los bandidos, El duelo del Dr Hirsch, El hombre del pasaje, El error de la máquina, La cabeza del César, La peluca roja, El fin de los Pendragon, El dios de los gongs, La ensalada del Coronel Cray, E...
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    17,90 €

  • The Everlasting Man
    Ellen Rose / G. K. Chesterton
    An original and controversial work of theology, 'The Everlasting Man,' is so persuasive in its defense of Christianity that it influenced C.S. Lewis to convert from atheism to Christianity. Though written more than a century ago, Chesterton’s work reads like a commentary of our culture today. Considered by many to be Chesterton’s greatest masterpiece, 'The Everlasting Man' expl...
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    10,29 €

  • All Things Considered
    G. K. Chesterton
    Nobody wrote like G.K. Chesterton, who (as the book title indicates) took great joy in penning intelligent, thoughtful, and witty essays on all sorts of themes and things. Chesterton’s tendency to cover a vast, irregular range of essay topics began with his first book of prose, 'The Defendant,' which delightfully addressed a diversity of normally ho-hum subjects ranging from sk...
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    9,60 €

  • Greybeards at Play
    G. K. Chesterton
    This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable. ...
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    11,73 €

  • The Everlasting Man (Sea Harp Timeless series)
    G.K. Chesterton
    Has religion, the church, or Christianity become convoluted? confusing? disappointing? We live in a time where church attendance is declining, where faith has become so deeply intertwined with politics, ideologies, theologies and personal opinions that it’s seemingly impossible to find Truth. In all of this, we have lost sight of the center of it all-that is, the utterly enchan...
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    22,89 €

  • Orthodoxy (Sea Harp Timeless series)
    G.K. Chesterton
    A Winsome Defence of the Christian Faith Our modern world - wide awake to its own progress and virtues - disdains the antiquated notions of Christianity. Wouldn’t humankind be much improved by the extinction of this unsightly ideology? This book is a winsome response that is delightfully sharp-witted and disarmingly sincere. In Orthodoxy, masterful thinker, literary critic, and...
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    17,85 €

  • What’s Wrong With the World
    G. K. Chesterton
    'What’s Wrong with the World' by G. K. Chesterton is written with a strong point of view and perspective for his time. Chesterton tells of the struggles and challenges of his time, but also considers how to improve them.In this title G. K. Chesterton writes on education, big business, feminism, and many other topics. This important book of essays is just as readable today as wh...
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    10,55 €

  • The Wisdom of Father Brown
    G.K. Chesterton
    Father Brown is not an ordinary detective. Father Brown is an ordinary parish priest with extraordinary common sense. He never goes looking for mysteries but mysteries always find him. Knowing the very heart of man, with all its weaknesses and wiles, he sees the truth where others are blinded by their own illusions.In these twelve stories, G.K. Chesterton’s second published Fat...
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    16,39 €

  • The Innocence of Father Brown
    G.K. Chesterton
    Father Brown is not an ordinary detective. Father Brown is an ordinary parish priest with extraordinary common sense. He never goes looking for mysteries but mysteries always find him. Knowing the very heart of man, with all its weaknesses and wiles, he sees the truth where others are blinded by their own illusions.In these twelve stories, G.K. Chesterton’s first published Fath...
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    16,27 €

  • Saint Thomas Aquinas
    G.K. Chesterton
    Chesterton’s biography of St Thomas Aquinas is the picture of a saintly genius - by a literary artist who himself had claims to intellectual splendour and heroic goodness. It has been praised by professional scholars who appreciate Chesterton’s grasp of St Thomas’ thought, as well as by ordinary readers who admire his flair for presenting the richness of this thought in such a ...
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    15,34 €

  • A Miscellany Of Men
    G K Chesterton
    A Miscellany of Men is a classic work of famous English writer, philosopher, literary and art critic, G.K. Chesterton. It is a collection of more than thirty humorous short stories and essays, published in 1912. He has covered topics from literature to philosophy and history to social criticism. He has given a picturesque of 20th century Europe. His social, historical, literary...
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    20,20 €

  • Orthodoxy
    G. K. Chesterton
    Orthodoxy is a nonfiction book written by G.K. Chesterton. He was an English writer and critic of the mid-twentieth century. He was a productive author who wrote over 100 books and added to no less than 200 additional during his lifetime. His book, 'Orthodoxy', contends that Christianity is an extraordinary religion since it provides us conviction about our purpose in life.Orth...
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    21,32 €

  • What’s Wrong With The World
    G.K. Chesterton
    What’s Wrong With The World By G. K. Chesterton Renewal 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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    27,49 €

  • The Everlasting Man
    G.K. Chesterton
    The Everlasting Man is Chesterton’s Christian vision of the human past. It is grounded in historical fact while being imaginative in conception and unfolding.He reveals the startling nature of God’s creative love. In the first of the book’s two sections, 'On the Creature Called Man,' he shows the human being to be unique, an artist endowed with a mind and will and a spiritual l...
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    20,87 €

  • G. F. Watts
    G. K. Chesterton
    This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable. 3...
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    11,67 €

  • 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 €

  • Manalive
    G K Chesterton
    Manalive (1912) is a book by G. K. Chesterton detailing a popular theme both in his own philosophy, and in Christianity, 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 London boarding establishment. Like Mary Poppins, ...
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    16,68 €

  • The Victorian Age in Literature
    G K Chesterton
    The Victorian Age in Literature is a great examination of 19th Century English literature by the great English writer, GK Chesterton. This classic text contains this passage: ' A section of a long and splendid literature can be most conveniently treated in one of two ways. It can be divided as one cuts a currant cake or a Gruyère cheese, taking the currants (or the holes) as th...
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    15,31 €

  • Utopia of Usurers and other Essays
    G K Chesterton
    Utopia of Usurers and other Essays is a fine collection of essays on the politics and social conditions of England during the time of its author, G K Chesterton.This collection of Chesterton works includes the following titles: A Song of Swords Utopia of Usurers I. Art and Advertisement II. Letters and the New Laureates III. Unbusinesslike Business IV. The War on Holidays V. T...
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    13,90 €

  • Ortodoxia
    G. K. Chesterton
    Se um homem não deve acreditar em si mesmo, em que ele deve acreditar?. Depois de uma longa pausa, respondi: vou para casa escrever um livro em resposta Nesta obra, Chesterton faz uma análise de si para provar que falar sobre ortodoxia não é discursar de forma enfadonha. ...
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    30,42 €

  • O homem eterno
    G. K. Chesterton
    O homem eterno é a resposta a uma obra de H. G. Wells sobre a origem do mundo. Chesterton ilustra de forma ambiciosa a jornada espiritual da humanidade, principalmente da civilização ocidental, e as principais transformações após se tornar cristã. Este clássico da literatura cristã impactou profundamente o autor C. S. Lewis, foi decisivo para sua conversão e influenciou suas ob...
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    28,50 €

  • The Man Who Was Thursday
    G. K. Chesterton
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    18,83 €

  • 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 Crimes of England
    G K Chesterton
    The Crimes of England is a history book that highlghts some of the most notorious events in the history of England. The book features this passage: 'A question is current in our looser English journalism touching what should be done with the German Emperor after a victory of the Allies. Our more feminine advisers incline to the view that he should be shot. This is to make a mi...
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    12,76 €

  • The Napoleon of Notting Hill
    G. K. Chesterton
    The book 'The Napoleon of Notting Hill', has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their orig...
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    16,18 €

  • O Homem Eterno
    G. K. Chesterton
    De toda a extensa obra de G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936), O Homem Eterno é sua criação mais surpreendente. A história da humanidade é aqui recontada de forma brilhante, a partir de duas perspectivas que se complementam: a criatura chamada homem e o homem chamado Cristo.Com sua prosa peculiar, seu humor britânico certeiro e seus raciocínios envolventes e provocativos, Chesterton d...
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    25,82 €

  • The Everlasting Man
    G.K. Chesterton / G.KChesterton
    In this book G.K. Chesterton explains how religion-a blend of philosophy and mythology-satisfies both the human intellect and the spirit, and sets man starkly apart from any other living creature. Addressing evolution, feminism, and cultural relativism within the context of religion, the book also examines religious skepticism. According to Chesterton, the shape of the key is ...
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    22,99 €

  • Leo Tolstoy [microform]
    Edward 1868-1937 Garnett / G. H. (George Herbert) Perris / G. K. (Gilbert Keith) 18... Chesterton / GH(George Herbert) Perris / GK(Gilbert Keith) 18Chesterton
    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 is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work....
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    14,86 €

  • What’s Wrong With the World [microform]
    G. K. (Gilbert Keith) 18... Chesterton / GK(Gilbert Keith) 18Chesterton
    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 is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work....
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    23,86 €

  • Greybeards at Play
    G. K. (Gilbert Keith) 18... Chesterton / GK(Gilbert Keith) 18Chesterton
    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 is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work....
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    18,94 €