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Charles Dickens by G. K. Chesterton
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Category: Biographies | Series: Wordsworth Literary Lives
"There is no better critic of Dickens living than Mr Chesterton" - T S Eliot. "[Chesterton is] perhaps Dickens' best critic" - Peter Ackroyd. "Readers seeking a short introduction to the Inimitable should try G K Chesterton's "Dickens"" - John Carey.Chesterton is so good on Dickens because his wit is as ...Show more
Complete Father Brown Stories by G. K. CHESTERTON
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That first collection of stories established G.K. Chesterton's kindly cleric in ...Show more
Father Brown Selected Stories by G. K Chesterton
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Category: Classics | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be'Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk dumpling, Father Brown makes for an improbable super-sleuth. But his innocence is the secret of his success- refusing the scientific method of detection, he adopts instead an approach of s ...Show more
The Complete Father Brown Stories by G. K. Chesterton
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk dumpling, Father Brown makes for an improbable super-sleuth. But his innocence is the secret of his success: refusing the scientific method of detection, he adopts instead an approach of simple sympathy, interpreting each crime as a work of art, and each ...Show more
The Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton
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Category: Spirituality/Religion | Series: Dover Books on Western Philosophy Ser.
2010 Reprint of 1925 edition. The Everlasting Man is a two-part history of mankind, Christ, and Christianity, by G. K. Chesterton. Published in 1925, it is to some extent a deliberate rebuttal of H. G. Wells' Outline of History, which embraced the evolutionary origins of humanity and denied the divinity ...Show more
The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
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Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
The Innocence of Father Brown is the first collection of stories starring Father Brown, a short, stumpy Catholic priest with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, and uncanny insight into human evil. Father Brown may be a kindly cleric, but his bumbling nature disguises a sharp detective mind to rival ...Show more
The Man Who Was Thursday - A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton
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Category: Classics
G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday is a thrilling novel of deception, subterfuge, double-crossing and secret identities, and this "Penguin Classics" edition is edited with an introduction by Matthew Beaumont. The Central Anarchist Council is a secret society sworn to destroy the world. The coun ...Show more
The Man Who Was Thursday: Green Popular Penguins by G.K. Chesterton
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Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins Ser.
G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately, a s ...Show more
The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G. K Chesterton
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Category: Classics
London, 1984. England has given up on democracy and selects its rulers by lottery. This time it is the turn of clerk Auberon Quin, a prankster who decrees that each borough of London become an independent mediaeval state, complete with costumes and coats of arms. The citizens bear his joke with varying ...Show more
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