The Complete Father Brown Mysteries, Chesterton G. K.
Автор: Chesterton Название: Complete Father Brown Stories ISBN: 1853260037 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781853260032 Издательство: Wordsworth Рейтинг: Цена: 660.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (более 5-х шт.) 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 Man Who Was Thursday ISBN: 0141199776 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141199771 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: от 1055.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть
Описание: In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist. Sworn to do his duty, Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe`s Central Anarchist Council and infiltrate their deadly mission, even managing to have himself voted to the position of `Thursday`.
Completeset of three Chesterton Apologetics by G. K. Chesterton in one volume, including Heretics, Orthodoxy, and The Everlasting Man.
Heretics - Chesterton discusses ideas by H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Kipling and others of his day in his argument for God.
From the 1905 British edition, it includes great thoughts such as these:
"The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know that they are dogmas."
Orthodoxy - Arranged upon a riddle and an answer, it tells how Chesterton himself went from pagan, to agnostic, to staunch Christian. From the 1908 British Edition.
The Everlasting Man - Chesterton successfully challenges the view that man is just another evolutionary animal, and that Jesus Christ was only human. C. S. Lewis said it was the best popular defense of the full Christian position.
From the 1925 British Edition, it includes great thoughts such as these:
"The life of man is a story; an adventure story; and in our vision the same is true even of the story of God."
"Atheists may continue to war with Christianity, but it will be as they war with nature; as they war with the landscape, as they war with the skies."
Witty, deep, and positively entertaining, no student of thought should be without this historic book. This edition is provided in a slim volume with full text at an affordable price.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
HERETICS 3
ORTHODOXY 75
THE EVERLASTING MAN 144
Автор: Chesterton Gilbert K. Название: All Things Considered ISBN: 1618958445 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781618958440 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 5449.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
G. K. Chesterton is well known as a novelist, essayist, storyteller, poet, philosopher, theologian, historian, artist, and critic. He's less well-known as a journalist these days, yet all evidence indicates that he viewed his work for the various newspapers as his primary raison-de-etre.
"All Things Considered" brings together about thirty columns that Chesterton wrote for the London Daily News in the years before World War I. There's no theme here; as the title suggests, this is a hodgepodge that wanders over everything imaginable. The only unifying thread is high quality.
Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective who is featured in 53 short stories published between 1910 and 1936 written by English novelist G. K. Chesterton. 1] Father Brown solves mysteries and crimes using his intuition and keen understanding of human nature. Chesterton loosely based him on the Rt Rev. Msgr. John O'Connor (1870-1952), a parish priest in Bradford, who was involved in Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism in 1922. Chesterton portrays Father Brown as a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes, a large umbrella, and an uncanny insight into human evil. In "The Head of Caesar" he is "formerly priest of Cobhole in Essex, and now working in London". He makes his first appearance in the story "The Blue Cross" published in 1910 and continues to appear throughout forty-eight short stories in five volumes, with two more stories discovered and published posthumously, often assisted in his crime-solving by the reformed criminal M. Hercule Flambeau.Father Brown also appears in a third story - making a total of fifty-one - that did not appear in the five volumes published in Chesterton's lifetime, "The Donnington Affair", which has a curious history. In the October 1914 issue of an obscure magazine, The Premier, Sir Max Pemberton published the first part of the story, then invited a number of detective story writers, including Chesterton, to use their talents to solve the mystery of the murder described. Chesterton and Father Brown's solution followed in the November issue. The story was first reprinted in the Chesterton Review (Winter), 1981, pp. 1-35 in the book Thirteen Detectives.Unlike the better-known fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown's methods tend to be intuitive rather than deductive. He explains his method in "The Secret of Father Brown" "You see, I had murdered them all myself.... I had planned out each of the crimes very carefully. I had thought out exactly how a thing like that could be done, and in what style or state of mind a man could really do it. And when I was quite sure that I felt exactly like the murderer myself, of course I knew who he was."Brown's abilities are also considerably shaped by his experience as a priest and confessor. In "The Blue Cross", when asked by Flambeau, who has been masquerading as a priest, how he knew of all sorts of criminal "horrors," Father Brown responds: "Has it never struck you that a man who does next to nothing but hear men's real sins is not likely to be wholly unaware of human evil?" He also states how he knew Flambeau was not really a priest: "You attacked reason. It's bad theology."The stories normally contain a rational explanation of who the murderer was and how Brown worked it out. He always emphasises rationality some stories, such as "The Miracle of Moon Crescent", "The Oracle of the Dog", "The Blast of the Book" and "The Dagger with Wings", poke fun at initially sceptical characters who become convinced of a supernatural explanation for some strange occurrence, but Father Brown easily sees the perfectly ordinary, natural explanation. In fact, he seems to represent an ideal of a devout but considerably educated and "civilised" clergyman. That can be traced to the influence of Roman Catholic thought on Chesterton. Father Brown is characteristically humble and is usually rather quiet, except to say something profound. Although he tends to handle crimes with a steady, realistic approach, he believes in the supernatural as the greatest reason of all.
Описание: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Описание: This work by G. K. Chesterton was published in 1920 and 1921 as a series of twelve articles in Vanity Fair magazine. Though it is an important statement of Chesterton's ideas about the good society, this is the first time it has appeared in book form.
In Chesterton's witty and paradoxical style, the book criticizes the uniformity and lack of spontaneity and joy in modern society. It begins by contrasting modern sports, which have strict rules, with pre-modern sports, which people invented spontaneously. It goes on through a number of examples, such as the uniformity of London rowhouses, which do not express the character of their owner.
It concludes by advocating distributism, which calls for distributing ownership of small property as widely as possible. Everyone should have their own garden to work on as they please.
In a way, distributism has the same goal as socialism: it aims at removing the stranglehold that large scale property has over ordinary people's lives. But its method is the opposite: to give everyone property rather than to nationalize property. Chesterton criticizes the drabness and uniformity that socialism imposes and celebrates the joyfulness and diversity that would result if people managed their own small property.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936) was one of the best known and best loved British writers of the early twentieth century - in the same league with H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw. He is famous for books on society and religion, such as Heretics and Orthodoxy, for novels, such as The Man Who Was Thursday, for his Father Brown series of detective stories, and for his many articles and essays.
Автор: Chesterton G. K. Название: Manalive ISBN: 1613827105 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781613827109 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3820.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Chesterton G. K. Название: Eugenics and Other Evils ISBN: 1978470975 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781978470972 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1026.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Chesterton Gilbert K. Название: The Everlasting Man ISBN: 1420972146 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781420972146 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2021.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: There is a crisis at the farm! Some bales of wool from the sheep shearing have been stolen during the night, and the bad-tempered farmer is threatening to withhold food from all the animals until the theft has been solved.At the request of the Wild Wood Constabulary, the woolly Master Sleuth, Sheared-Locks Holmes, discovers that the caper was an inside job, though his first suspect is subsequently cleared.In a brilliant piece of detective work, and a masterful cross-examination, Sheared-Locks reveals the criminal conspiracy, the animal (and human) culprits are identified, and the case is resolved in poetic style.
Автор: Chesterton, G K Название: The Penguin Complete Father Brown ISBN: 014009766X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140097665 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 2507.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Immortalized in these famous stories, G.K. Chesterton`s endearing amateur sleuth has entertained countless generations of readers. For, as his admirers know, Father Brown`s cherubic face and unworldly simplicity, his glasses and his huge umbrella, disguise a quite uncanny understanding of the criminal mind at work.
Автор: Chesterton G. K. Название: The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare ISBN: 1547065362 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781547065363 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1204.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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