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  • The Wisdom of Father Brown
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    The only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge. Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel. When some time ago I published a series of hasty but sincere papers, under the name of 'Heretics,' several critics for whose intellect I have a warm respect (I may mention specially Mr. G.S. Street) said that it was all very well for me to tell eve...
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    27,85 €

  • Alarms and Discursions
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Alone at some distance from the wasting walls of a disused abbey I found half sunken in the grass the grey and goggle-eyed visage of one of those graven monsters that made the ornamental water-spouts in the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. It lay there, scoured by ancient rains or striped by recent fungus, but still looking like the head of some huge dragon slain by a primeval he...
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    20,10 €

  • All Things Considered
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    I cannot understand the people who take literature seriously; but I can love them, and I do. Out of my love I warn them to keep clear of this book. It is a collection of crude and shapeless papers upon current or rather flying subjects; and they must be published pretty much as they stand. They were written, as a rule, at the last moment; they were handed in the moment before i...
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    20,05 €

  • Orthodoxy
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Once upon a time there lived upon an island a merry and innocent people, mostly shepherds and tillers of the earth. They were republicans, like all primitive and simple souls; they talked over their affairs under a tree, and the nearest approach they had to a personal ruler was a sort of priest or white witch who said their prayers for them. They worshi-pped the sun, not idolat...
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    20,09 €

  • The Ball and the Cross
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    I cannot understand the people who take literature seriously; but I can love them, and I do. Out of my love I warn them to keep clear of this book. It is a collection of crude and shapeless papers upon current or rather flying subjects; and they must be published pretty much as they stand. They were written, as a rule, at the last moment; they were handed in the moment before i...
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    22,28 €

  • The Wisdom of Father Brown
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    The only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge. Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel. When some time ago I published a series of hasty but sincere papers, under the name of 'Heretics,' several critics for whose intellect I have a warm respect (I may mention specially Mr. G.S. Street) said that it was all very well for me to tell eve...
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    22,44 €

  • The Appetite of Tyranny - Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    This antiquarian volume contains a fascinating exploration of European politics prior to, during, and after the First World War. This insightful and masterfully written book is full of interesting information and clever observations, and it will appeal to anyone with an interest in history, the First Wold War, or European politics. The chapters of this book include: 'The Facts ...
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    15,20 €

  • A Chesterton Calendar
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    This vintage book contains G. K. Chesterton’s 1911 work, 'A Chesterton Calendar'. This delightful volume contains a quote for each day of the year taken from Chesterton’s various works, all of which take the form of either verse or prose. It also comprises a chapter on the ’moveable feats’, including Trinity Sunday and Ascension Day. This volume is highly recommended for fans o...
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    35,97 €

  • Orthodoxy
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    This volume contains G. K. Chesterton’s 1908 book, 'Orthodoxy'. Chesterton viewed this book as a companion to his other work, 'Heretics', and it has become a seminal text in Christian apologetics. According to Chesterton, this book’s 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.’ The c...
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    44,05 €

  • Charles Dickens
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    This vintage book contains a fascinating critical study of the life and work of Charles Dickens. This interesting and insightful exploration of all things Dickensian will appeal to those with an interest in English literature, and it is not to be missed by fans of Dickens’s seminal work. The chapters of this book include: 'The Dickens Period', 'The Boyhood of Dickens', 'The Pic...
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    34,49 €

  • The Victorian Age in Literature
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Includes: Introduction -- The Victorian Compromise and Its Enemies -- The Great Victorian Novelists -- The Great Victorian Poets -- The Break-Up of the Compromise -- Bibliographical Note -- Index. ...
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    20,94 €

  • Alarms and Discursions
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    This volume contains a collection of essays written by G. K. Chesterton. These essays were originally published in the ’Daily News’, and cover a range of topics ranging from Gargoyles to strolls around Marble Arch. The essays contained herein include: 'The Surrender of a Cockney', 'The Nightmare', 'The Telegraph Poles', 'A Drama of Dolls', 'The Men and His Newspaper', 'The Appe...
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    34,91 €

  • The Napoleon of Notting Hill with Original Illustrations from the First Edition
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
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    8,52 €

  • 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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    11,50 €

  • Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Chesterton’s diverse writings include poetry, philosophy, journalism, fantasy, biographies and Christian apologetics. Chesterton was a master of the play on words. The Utopia of Usurers section includes nine essays with topics including labor, advertisement, prisons, a war on Holidays and others. The second section contains 16 essays on a broad range of subjects. ...
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    15,57 €

  • Tremendous Trifles
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Chesterton has been called the Prince of Paradox. His works include journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography, fantasy and detective stories. Chesterton has great fun satirizing the Victorian sleuths such as Sherlock Holmes . These 39 tales will delight the reader. Chesterton said that these stories just came to him like sitting still and letting them light on him like flies. S...
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    21,20 €

  • A Short History of England by G. K. Chesterton, History, Europe, Great Britain
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Filled with Chestertonian wit, the fast-moving history includes such gemlike observations as, Henry VIII 'was almost as unlucky in his wives as they were in their husband.' Of the great late Victorian/Edwardian trio of wits: George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, and Chesterton himself, it is Chesterton whose body of work -- writing in an unassuming manner, without great pretension ...
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    11,28 €

  • The Everlasting Man
    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...
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    28,00 €

  • The Everlasting Man
    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...
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    13,68 €

  • The Man Who Was Thursday
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    In The Man Who Was Thursday we are transported to a surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, a poet, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist taskforce at Scotland Yard. Lucian Gregory, an anarchist poet, is the only poet in Saffron Park, until he loses his temper in an argument over the purpose of poetry with Gabriel Syme, who takes the opposite view. After some time, ...
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    11,86 €

  • Manalive
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    In Manalive we follow the madcap adventure of Innocent Smith. Innocent Smith is a man who keeps the commandments but breaks all the conventions, and while doing so he shows us just how absurd those conventions are. Follow him as he breaks into his own house, and then carries on a torrid affair with his own wife. Enjoy a picnic on the roof and then leave home just for the sake o...
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    13,82 €

  • The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton Vol. II
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Collected here, in one volume are Gilbert K. Chesterton¿s most influential works of fiction. Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and commons, the horizon of which was fringed with the far-off woods of the famous estate of Torwood Park. He was a good-looking young man in tweeds, with very pale curly hair a...
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    36,39 €

  • The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton Vol. II
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Collected here, in one volume are Gilbert K. Chesterton¿s most influential works of fiction. Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and commons, the horizon of which was fringed with the far-off woods of the famous estate of Torwood Park. He was a good-looking young man in tweeds, with very pale curly hair a...
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    20,53 €

  • Manalive
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    In Manalive we follow the madcap adventure of Innocent Smith. Innocent Smith is a man who keeps the commandments but breaks all the conventions, and while doing so he shows us just how absurd those conventions are. Follow him as he breaks into his own house, and then carries on a torrid affair with his own wife. Enjoy a picnic on the roof and then leave home just for the sake o...
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    28,23 €

  • The Ballad of the White Horse
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    The Ballad of the White Horse is a poem by G. K. Chesterton about the idealised exploits of the Saxon King Alfred the Great, first published in 1911. Written in ballad form, the work is usually considered 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...
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    22,27 €

  • The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton Vol. I
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    Here are G. K. Chesterton’s most influential non-fiction books collected here in one binding.In Orthodoxy, Gilbert K. Chesterton explains how and why he came to believe in Christianity and more specifically the Catholic Church’s brand of orthodoxy. In the book, Chesterton takes the spiritually curious reader on an intellectual quest. While looking for the meaning of life, he fi...
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    36,42 €

  • Orthodoxy
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    In Orthodoxy, Gilbert K. Chesterton explains how and why he came to believe in Christianity and more specifically the Catholic Church’s brand of orthodoxy. 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. Che...
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    28,30 €

  • Orthodoxy
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    In Orthodoxy, Gilbert K. Chesterton explains how and why he came to believe in Christianity and more specifically the Catholic Church’s brand of orthodoxy. 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. Che...
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    9,98 €

  • Heretics
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    In Heretics, Gilbert K. Chesterton rails against what he sees as wrong with society. He points out how society has gone astray and how life and spiritually could be brought back into focus. It is foolish, generally speaking, for a philosopher to set fire to another philosopher in Smithfield Market because they do not agree in their theory of the universe. That was done very fre...
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    28,25 €

  • Heretics
    G. K. Chesterton / GKChesterton
    In Heretics, Gilbert K. Chesterton rails against what he sees as wrong with society. He points out how society has gone astray and how life and spiritually could be brought back into focus. It is foolish, generally speaking, for a philosopher to set fire to another philosopher in Smithfield Market because they do not agree in their theory of the universe. That was done very fre...
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    9,92 €


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