The Everlasting Man, Chesterton G. K.

Автор: Chesterton
Название: Complete Father Brown Stories
ISBN: 1853260037 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781853260032
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Описание: Father Brown first made his appearance in "The Innocence of Father Brown" in 1911. This collection contains all of the Father Brown stories, showing thr quiet wit and compassion that has endeared him to many, whilst solving his mysteries by a mixture of imagination and a sympathetic worldliness in a totally believable manner.

Автор: G. K. Chesterton
Название: The Complete Father Brown Stories
ISBN: 0141193859 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141193854
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: 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 criminal as a man no worse than himself.

Автор: Chesterton G. K.
Название: St Thomas Aquinas
ISBN: 150772103X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781507721032
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Автор: Chesterton Cecil
Название: Gladstonian Ghosts (Classic Reprint)
ISBN: 0365398209 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780365398202
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Описание: Excerpt from Gladstonian Ghosts

As a philosopher you are able to see what no practical statesman on either side of the House seems likely to perceive - that social and economic politics are the only kind of politics that really matter, and that the chicken in-the-pot ideal of Henri Quatre is after all the primary aim of all states manship. Three centuries of anarchic commercialism have left us a legacy of pauperism, disease, famine, physical degeneracy and Spiritual demoralization, which in another century will infallibly destroy us altogether if we cannot in the mean time destroy them. And I think you share my impatience when our Radical friends insist on discussing Irish Home Rule, Church Disestablishment and the abolition of the House of Lords, as if such frivolities could really satisfythe human conscience faced with the appalling realities of the slums.

When therefore I Speak of your interest in politics I am not thinking of that rather exciting parlour game which they play at Westminster during the Spring months. In this you pro bably take less interest than I for I must confess (not altogether without shame) that the sporting aspect of politics has always fascinated me. You, on the other hand, have Bridge to amuse you and, when you are brought to the bar of the Nonconformist Con science on this count, you may fairly plead that any man who played Bridge with the peculiar mixture of ignorance, stupidity, criminal laziness and flagrant dishonesty with which the Front Benches play the game of politics, would in fallibly be turned out of his club and probably cut by all his acquaintances.

It may seem surprising that, taking this view of contemporary party warfare, I should have troubled to write a book in criticism of it. To which I can only reply that the parliamentary bridge players are unfortunately staking on their pastime not their own money but my country's interests; so that the incidents of the game become im portant despite the frivolity of the players, and it seems to me that we are on the eve of a turn of luck which may prove not only important but disastrous.

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Автор: Chesterton G. K.
Название: The Innocence of Father Brown
ISBN: 1982674164 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781982674168
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Автор: Chesterton G. K.
Название: The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
ISBN: 1797500813 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781797500812
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Автор: Chesterton G. K.
Название: Lord Kitchener (Classic Reprint)
ISBN: 0364617578 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780364617571
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Автор: Chesterton G. K.
Название: The Man Who Knew Too Much
ISBN: 0368484386 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780368484384
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Описание: 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. 1] 2] 3] 4] The book contains eight connected short stories about "The Man Who Knew Too Much," and additional unconnected stories featuring separate heroes/detectives. The United States edition contained one of these additional stories: "The Trees of Pride," while the United Kingdom edition contained "Trees of Pride" and three more, shorter stories: "The Garden of Smoke," "The Five of Swords" and "The Tower of Treason." The 1934 and 1956 films have nothing except the title in common with this book. Alfred Hitchcock, who directed both films, decided to use the title because he held the film rights for some of the stories in the book.

Автор: Chesterton G. K.
Название: The Man Who Was Thursday
ISBN: 0368307662 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780368307669
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Описание: It is very difficult to classify THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY. It is possible to say that it is a gripping adventure story of murderous criminals and brilliant policemen; but it was to be expected that the author of the Father Brown stories should tell a detective story like no-one else. On this level, therefore, THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY succeeds superbly; if nothing else, it is a magnificent tour-de-force of suspense-writing. However, the reader will soon discover that it is much more than that. Carried along on the boisterous rush of the narrative by Chesterton's wonderful high-spirited style, he will soon see that he is being carried into much deeper waters than he had planned on; and the totally unforeseeable denouement will prove for the modern reader, as it has for thousands of others since 1908 when the book was first published, an inevitable and moving experience, as the investigators finally discover who Sunday is.

Автор: Chesterton G K
Название: Father Brown: Selected Stories
ISBN: 1904633056 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781904633051
Издательство: Collectors Library
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Описание: Shrewd and punctilious, with an intuitive awareness of the dark secrets of human nature gained in the confessional, Father Brown is well equipped to uncover the startling truth wherever murder, mayhem and mystery stalk society.

Автор: Cecil Chesterton
Название: A History of the United States
ISBN: 153613600X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781536136005
Издательство: Nova Science
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Описание: This book, originally published in 1919, is a telling of U.S. history from colonial times to Reconstruction. Written by a British soldier mostly from the battlefields of World War One, it provides a British perspective of U.S. history that was reflective of the authors time. Modern scholars take issue with this telling and have proven many inaccuracies in its pages, but the text still stands as a reflection of the sometimes rich and inspiring and sometimes base and unfortunate attitudes and perspectives of Americas birth and rise.

Автор: Chesterton G. K.
Название: The Everlasting Man: Large Print Edition
ISBN: 1718924364 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781718924369
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