G. K. Chesterton

The beloved fictional detective Father Brown solves 12 of his most puzzling cases in this copiously annotated edition. This first collection of Father Brown mysteries, widely considered the author's best, includes "The Blue Cross" "The Hammer of God," "The Eye of Apollo" and more.

On this question of divorce, I do not profess to be impartial, for I have never perceived any intelligent meaning in the word. I merely (and most modestly) profess to be right. I also profess to be representative: that is, democratic. Now, one may believe in democracy or disbelieve in it. It would be grossly unfair to conceal the fact that there are difficulties on both sides. The difficulty of believing in democracy is that it is so hard to believe—like...

Your Special Illustrated & Annotated edition includes: • 11 Brand New Illustrations – in Chisel sequence™ - of St. Thomas Aquinas by generative artist Myron Henkmen! • Bibliography of G.K. Chesterton – Humanities – since 1980 – Harvard format for quick Research • Glossary of Traditional Catholic Terms Here is the Chesterton's brilliant "sketch" of the great Scholastic theologian and Doctor of the Church St. Thomas Aquinas, nicknamed...

George Bernard Shaw goaded the already successful essayist and novelist Chesterton into trying his hand at a play, with this 1913 result. The play examines the powers and mysteries of faith, belief, religion, and of course, magic - a mixture that should be familiar from many of his Father Brown stories. The play's success convinced him to write a couple of other later plays.

Excerpt: "There is an old London story that has never lost its loveliness for me. It was about a stout old lady, from the country, who travelled round and round the Underground Railway in a circle, because at each station she tried to get out backwards, and at each station the guard pitched her in again, under the impression that she was trying to get in. It is a beautiful story; doing honor alike to the patience of the female sex and the prompt courtesy...

A great collection of poems by G. K Chesterton. Always a treat. Chesterton is simply a great master of the essay and English prose.

G. K. Chesterton's hilarious defense... of just about anything. In this hodgepodge of early musings, a young G. K. Chesterton operates under the conceit that many objects in the human purview - ranging from the humdrum and mundane to the outright ridiculous - could use the advocacy of a good apologist every once in a while. This lively book, filled with essays from Chesterton's days as a budding journalist for the Speaker, vindicates everything from...

Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by G. K. Chesterton. Table Of Contents: Alarms and Discursions, All Things Considered, The Appetite of Tyranny, Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens, The Ballad of the White Horse, The Ball and the Cross, The Barbarism of Berlin, The Club Of Queer Trades, The Crimes Of England, The Defendant Eugenics And Other Evils, George Bernard Shaw, Heretics, The Innocence Of Father...

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".