G. K. Chesterton
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El poeta y los lunáticos (1929), de Gilbert Keith Chesterton, no es exactamente una novela, sino más bien una sucesión de episodios entrelazados, en los que un aparente loco -el poeta y pintor Gabriel Gale- da muestras de su increíble capacidad para captar la importancia de detalles que permanecen ocultos o apenas visibles a los ojos de "la gente cuerda". Las técnicas deductivas del excéntrico poeta para anticipar un delito o resolver una atrocidad...
62) G. F. Watts
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In this important work, Chesterton examines and analyzes the art of the revered British painter and sculptor George Frederick Watts. In writing as beautiful as it is incisive, Chesterton pens an enduring portrait of the artist who was best friends with Tennyson and whose allegorical paintings vividly captured many luminaries of his day.
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This book takes you on a journey to solve mysteries, fight dragons, debate religion, and quarrel among politicians in the parliament.
It will have you smiling at its witty sarcasm, tearing up over its nostalgic rhythm, and frowning in perplexion at its mind-twisting ideas!
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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...
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En el itinerario de su conversión, el autor recupera por oleadas algunas convicciones de la niñez, conservadas entre las líneas de cuentos de hadas y novelas de aventuras. Lo relata en Ortodoxia, su libro más central y el que mejor lo define, y del que se ha extraído este capítulo. En él se muestra su profunda independencia intelectual y un discernimiento clarividente.
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A classic of Christian apologetics
Part spiritual autobiography, part apologetics, Orthodoxy is G.K. Chesterton's account of his own journey to faith. Chesterton didn't set out to write a defense of Christian thought, instead he hoped to recount how he personally became a believer. However, in doing so, he penned one of the great classics of Christian writing, a book that has influenced countless people and continues to speak compellingly to our...
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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...
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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...
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G. K. Chesterton's highly influential treatise on one of the most controversial topics of the early twentieth century. When G. K. Chesterton first published Eugenics and Other Evils in 1922, he seemed to be the lone voice of reason against the fashionable concept of selectively breeding a population for "desirable" traits. Though later generations came to associate eugenics with the horrors of the Third Reich, worldwide support for the philosophy...
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Early 20th century English author Gilbert Keith Chesterton may be best remembered for his stories which feature the character of an English priest and detective named Father Brown. While the character was based on a real life priest who was involved in Chesterton's own conversion of faith, the adventures and mysteries that Father Brown solves are purely fictional. Collected together here are fifteen of Chesterton's most thrilling Father Brown tales...
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G. K. Chesterton's Heretics was first, published in 1905, with Orthodoxy following in 1908. Chesterton viewed them as companions to one another, as Orthodoxy was, written as a response to criticism he had received for Heretics. For while Heretics presents the negative view of Chesterton's beliefs, Orthodoxy presents the positive; in a sense, Heretics contains the anathemas while Orthodoxy contains the canons. Orthodoxy is therefore an apology, or...
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Der Roman Der Mann, der Donnerstag war ist eine politische Satire, die der Phantastischen Literatur zugerechnet werden kann: Ein Komplott anarchistischer Terroristen am Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts entwickelt sich darin, unter zunehmender Verfremdung der Wirklichkeit, in ein verrückt-göttliches Spektakel. Wie in anderen seiner Schriften wendet sich Chesterton auch in diesem Roman theologisch-philosophischen Fragen zu. (Auszug aus Wikipedia)
75) The Blue Cross
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Farther Brown may be walking into a trap when he tries to save his soul as his precious Blue Cross is targeted by the notorious criminal Flambeau.
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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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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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Chesterton was the master of the short essay and could spin, with wit and grace, an essay a day for many years of his life. Those not familiar with his work will discover here the satirist who made fierce fun of the foibles of his times, the lover of paradox who found in the mysteries of our universe a key to wisdom and happiness and the defender of human rights in a society taken over (like ours) by greed and lack of compassion.
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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....
80) Menschenskind
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"Menschenskind" beschreibt die manchmal widrigen Umstände in die ein Mensch sich begeben kann. Die Themen Moral und Sterblichkeit werden auf eine unterhaltsame Weise beleuchtet.Wann ist ein Mensch gleichzeitig ein Dieb, Bigamist, Mörder und Deserteur und doch keins von allen...