G K Chesterton: 423 books

"What is America?" Chesterton asks in the opening chapter of this perceptive and high-spirited book, originally published in 1922. In due course, he meditates on the nature of the American hotel, the Broadway theater, and the American businessman. He also touches upon politics, cities, fads, and...

"The Club of Queer Trades" is a collection of stories by Gilbert Keith Chesterton first published in 1905. Each story in the collection is centred on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means (a "queer trade", using the word "queer" in the...

Snapshots of twentieth-century Europe and the world, the essays in A Miscellany of Men cover a range of topics, from literature and philosophy to history and social criticism. Included, among others, are “The Suffragist,” “The Poet and the Cheese,” “The Fool,” and “The Elf of Japan.”...

When Innocent Smith arrives at Beacon House, a London boarding establishment, he turns the lives of the residents and staff upside-down with his contagious enthusiasms.  But when he is suddenly accused of the most terrible crimes, it seems Smith is not so Innocent after all.  Yet in the works of Chesterton, nothing is as it seems . . .

Chesterton marvels at all of the little moments that makes up our lives in this whimsical collection of essays, each of which originally appeared in London’s Daily News. He allows readers a new way to look at life; essays such as “A Piece of Chalk,” “The Shop of Ghosts,” and “On Lying in Bed,” are just a few of the gems in this delightful treasury.   

The Classic Fantasy Collection brings together 20 of the greatest fantasy novels ever written.  Featuring:  Phantastes, by George MacDonald The Water-Babies, by Charles Kingsley Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll Lilith, by George...

Alfred the Great was the seventh-century Saxon King of Wessex who—with the aid of God and the Virgin Mary—defended his land against the Vikings. Incorporating fact and legend, Chesterton’s epic 1911 poem narrates Alfred’s exploits on the battlefield. It may have provided inspiration for J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.

El hombre corriente (1936), el último de sus libros, o al menos el último del que corrigió pruebas, y que apareció unos pocos días después de su muerte. Y también uno de los más combativos y retadores, e incluso puede que el más quijotesco...

Doce relatos componen este volumen con el que el divertido y paradójico Gilbert Keith Chesterton dio a conocer al Padre Brown. Este cura católico, de aspecto insignificante y candoroso, tiene un cerebro privilegiado y una intuición singular para leer en los recovecos del corazón humano. Pero su...

Pater Brown ist die literarische Erfindung des englischen Schriftstellers Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936). Der kleine katholische Priester Brown geht einem ungewöhnlichen Hobby nach - mithilfe seines stark ausgeprägten psychologischen Einfühlungsvermögens löst er die scheinbar mysteriösesten...

One thing this prescient book achieves--and possibly the reason Chesterton wrote it--is to show just how varied such types can be. Our own time (and he must have foreseen it) for all its electronic wizardry and lightening communication, is devoid of much true diversity of personality, talent and perspective....

En esta colección de ensayos, escritos y publicados en distintos medios gráficos a lo largo de su vida, Chesterton despliega toda su ironía para regalarle al lector un curioso "detrás de escena” de la literatura policial. Haciendo gala de su talento y de una inagotable cuota de humor, el...

“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly!” So exclaims Chesterton in this intriguing book. Tackling many thorny social and moral issues of the day, he uses his theory of Distributism to comment on the ever-widening gulf between the rich and poor, the importance of family, the problems...

This Golden Deer Classics compilation contains the following classic fantasy works: Phantastes - George MacDonald The Water-Babies - Charles Kingsley Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll Through the Looking Glass (And What Alice Found There) - Lewis Carroll Lilith - George MacDonald The...