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The amiable detective-priest Father Brown, who brought Chesterton to a wider public first appeared in The Innocence of Father Brown and remains one of the best-known names in crime fiction. These two novels were first published in 1911 and 1914 and contain 12 short stories each.
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Las dos grandes obsesiones de Chesterton, el arte y la religión, se reúnen en esta colección de ensayos que nacieron como reseñas literarias y acabaron convirtiéndose en un recorrido por lo bueno y lo superior. Así, los personajes glosados por Chesterton en este volumen, se dividen en dos categorías, los "temperamentos artísticos" (Blake, Lord Byron, Charlotte Brontë, William Morris, Robert Louis Stevenson) y los "temperamentos religiosos"...
103) Magic
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Magic is an excellent philosophical play about a conjuror whose tricks throw an entire household into turmoil. Chesterton poses this fundamental question: Who is the bigger zealot? Someone who believes in miracles, or someone who goes to whatever lengths necessary not to?
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An eccentric poet acts as spiritual detective in eight thought-provoking tales. Gabriel Gale employs his extraordinary gifts of empathy to solve and prevent crimes perpetrated by madmen. His philosophical police-work forms the basis for captivating explorations of poetry, insanity, and sin - all expressed in the author's characteristic paradoxes and soaring flights of rhetoric. Best known as the creator of priest-detective Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton...
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Los relatos del padre Brown han entrado a formar parte de nuestra mitología particular. Las historias detectivescas protagonizadas por un sacerdote católico, sin más ayuda que su sentido común, un formidable conocimiento del género humano y un paraguas, nos llegan arropadas por un perspicaz candor que nos las hace profundamente amigas. De ellos, Borges afirmó que cuando el género policial hubiera caducado, el porvenir seguiría leyéndolos....
106) Father Brown
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer who lived at the turn of the 20th century. His works explored a number of subjects such as philosophy, poetry, journalism, lectures, criticism, and theatrical plays. However, his best-known stories feature the character of an English priest and detective named Father Brown. While the character was based on a real priest who was involved in Chesterton's own conversion of faith, the adventures and mysteries...
107) Thackeray
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Excerpt: "Amid all the eulogies and all the slanders that are lavished upon the English character, very few people would appear to take any real trouble to obtain a sincere view of it. Rhetorical phrases about its inarticulate strength and nobility do not commonly bring us very much further, for it may be questioned whether it is good for a people excitedly to articulate their own inarticulate disposition. But, when all is said and done, it may truly...
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"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly!" So exclaims Chesterton in this intriguing book. Tackling many thorny social and moral issues of the day, he uses his theory of Distributism to comment on the ever-widening gulf between the rich and poor, the importance of family, the problems with education, and the meaning of feminism. With his usual wit, perception, and thoughtful analysis, he looks for answers.
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Contrary to first impressions, G. K. Chestertons Father Brown is not senile, nor easily rattled. In fact, this village priest wanders into challenges that pale in comparison to the things he has heard through the screen of the confessional. For to hear Father Brown tell it, crime is a manifestation of sin: the criminal must be caught, but he or she must also be saved, the culprit has to be locked up, but the spirit must be freed.
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Cuando se habla de las características inconfundibles del humor inglés, se habla concretamente del londinense Gilbert Keith Chesterton, porque toda su obra lleva este sello de identidad. Y como una evidente muestra de ello, es la colección de relatos El club de los negocios raros. En ellos encontramos la búsqueda de lo singular, lo que no puede repetirse de ninguna forma porque se trata, indudablemente, de historias que solo pueden ser posibles...
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The journals of a club which called itself the Lunatic Asylum: a group of amiable eccentrics who spend their time trying to do the impossible. At first they are nothing more than that: four whimsical idiots with no sense of responsibility, clowning outrageously for the sake of clowning. But soon they begin to see themselves as men with a mission: for they find that they are the only people left in England who are still defending the individual soul...
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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 of returning home. A joyous and uplifting book.
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The Queen of Seven Swords is a rare book of poems by G. K. Chesterton, focused on Mary, the mother of Jesus. It is a volume of poems that Chesterton published in 1926, the title being a reference to the second chapter of Luke's Gospel. When Mary and Joseph presented the baby Jesus at the Temple, Simeon rejoiced that his eyes had seen God's salvation. Chesterton refers to a "seven-fold splendour" surrounding Mary, corresponding to the seven wounds...
115) Man Alive
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A Wonderful Eccentric Novel from G.K. Chesterton. "She had never really listened to anyone in her life, which, some said, was why she had survived." Man Alive is a book about the modern man's problems in which G.K. Chesterton shows us why life is worth living and why we need a little madness sometimes just to feel alive.
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Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at individual poets who have shaped and influenced their craft and cement their place in our heritage. In this volume we look at the works of the eminent English writer and poet GK Chesterton. Gilbert Keith Chesterton...
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This early work by G. K. Chesterton was originally published in 1913. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London in 1874. He studied at the Slade School of Art, and upon graduating began to work as a freelance journalist. Over the course of his life, his literary output was incredibly diverse and highly prolific, ranging from philosophy and ontology to art criticism and detective fiction. However, he is probably best-remembered for his Christian...
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Contents Include: Three Dedications: To Edmund Clerihew Bentley; To Hilaire Belloc; To M.E.W. War Poems: Lepanto; The March of the Black Mountain 1913; Blessed are the Peacemakers; The Wife of Flanders; The Crusader Returns from Captivity. LOVE POEMS: Glencoe; Love's Trappist; Confessional; Music; The Deluge; The Strange Music; The Great Minimum; The Mortal Answers; The Marriage Song; Bay Combe. RELIGIOUS POEMS: The Wise Men; The House of Christmas;...
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Stories, Essays and Poems contains a collection of G. K. Chesterton's works. Within is a selection of some of his stories, including "The Blue Cross", "The Secret Garden" and "The Queer Feet". His Essays, such as "The Fallacy of Success", "The Mad Official" and "Hard Times". As well as a large selection of his poems, including "Alone", "An Alliance" and "The Aristocrat".
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Excerpt: "It is futile to talk of reform with reference to form. To take a case from my own taste and fancy, there is nothing I feel to be so, beautiful and wonderful as a window. All casements are magic casements, whether they open on the foam or the front-garden; they lie close to the ultimate mystery and paradox of limitation and liberty. But, if I followed my instinct towards an infinite number of windows, it would end in having no walls. It would...