G K Chesterton: 423 books

De detrás de la roca que sobresalía surgió un ruido y un movimiento fugaz parecido al de un ferrocarril, y apareció un gran automóvil. Su negra silueta recortada contra el sol coronaba la cima de la montaña, como un carro lanzándose hacia la destrucción...

A collection of short stories, including The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown, The Painful Fall of a Great Reputation, The Awful Reason of the Vicar's Visit, and more.

This book collected his iconoclastic essays on various topics, some surprisingly relevant over a century later. (Goodreads)

A few really fun poems here, especially the ones that glorify drinking and attack the tea -totalers of the day. (Goodreads)

Nothing more strangely indicates an enormous and silent evil of modern society than the extraordinary use which is made nowadays of the word "orthodox." In former days the heretic was proud of not being a heretic. It was the kingdoms of the world and the police and the judges who were heretics....

A sketch of St. Francis of Assisi in modern English may be written in one of three ways. Between these the writer must make his selection; and the third way, which is adopted here, is in some respects the most difficult of all. At least, it would be the most difficult if the other two were not impossible. First,...

In Edwardian era London, Gabriel Syme is recruited at Scotland Yard to a secret anti-anarchist police corps. Lucian Gregory, an anarchistic poet, lives in the suburb of Saffron Park. Syme meets him at a party and they debate the meaning of poetry. Gregory argues revolt is the basis of poetry. Syme...

A collection of essays dealing with various topics, such as human nature, current affairs, science and religion. A collection of essays dealing with various topics, such as human nature, current affairs, science and religion

This holiday, we proudly present to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas stories. Over 250 of them are included by your favourite authors:Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, E.T.A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Mark Twain and many more!

A series of short articles by one of Britain's foremost literary minds, covering diverse topics such as education, society, religion and more.

The second collection of short mystery stories featuring the priest detective, Father Brown. Includes The Absence of Mr Glass, and The Paradise of Thieves.

(Auszug): "Es offenbart sich immer mehr, daß die Welt in einer beständigen Gefahr ist, falsch beurteilt zu werden. Daß das keine wunderliche oder dunkle Idee ist, mag durch einfache Beispiele belegt werden. Die beiden unbedingt grundlegenden Worte »gut« und »schlecht«, Bezeichnungen zweier...