Gilbert Keith Chesterton: 128 books

A Chesterton Shakespeare piaceva da matti: ne traeva insegnamento per la sua vita interiore e al tempo stesso autentico piacere e godimento, non solo per gli straordinari concetti da lui espressi, per la profondità dei suoi drammi, per la complessità delle psicologie dei personaggi, ma anche per...

Una dama vessata da un signore tirannico, tre politici che banchettano, un personaggio incappucciato dai poteri misteriosi, un santo nel deserto; e poi cavalieri che incrociano le spade, intellettuali settecenteschi, automi meccanici d’aspetto umano: sono solo alcuni dei personaggi che calcano le...

In the October 1914 issue of the British magazine The Premier, Sir Max Pemberton published the first part of this story, inviting a number of writers, including Chesterton, to use their talents to solve the mystery of the murder described. Chesterton's solution followed in the form of a Father Brown story in the November issue.

È con la consueta inclinazione al paradosso e all’ironia che Chesterton ci parla di un’esperienza drammatica come la conversione religiosa, partendo ovviamente dalla sua personale, avvenuta nel 1922. In queste pagine – sottili, brillanti, appassionate – accompagna l’anima perennemente in...

In the October 1914 issue of the British magazine The Premier, Sir Max Pemberton published the first part of this story, inviting a number of writers, including Chesterton, to use their talents to solve the mystery of the murder described. Chesterton's solution followed in the form of a Father Brown story in the November issue.

San Tommaso d’Aquino (1225-1274) è uno dei pilastri del pensiero cristiano. La sua opera raccorda e armonizza il messaggio evangelico e la filosofia classica, la fede e la ragione. Eppure, scrive Chesterton, «questo grande personaggio meriterebbe di essere più conosciuto». E proprio intorno...

In seguito alla pubblicazione nel 1905 di Eretici – una raccolta di saggi in cui l’autore attacca con stile brillante e corrosivo i dogmi della sua epoca – G.K. Chesterton fu sfidato dalla critica a indicare quale fosse la propria visione del mondo. Tre anni più tardi, nel 1908, diede alle...

This book may not be, Chesterton says, important as a contribution to history, but it is important as a contribution to biography; as a contribution to the character and the career of the man who wrote it, a typical man of his time. That Dickens made no personal historical researches, that he had...

Saint Francis of Assisi by G. K. Chesterton  1923 Chapter I - The Problem of Saint Francis Chapter II - The World Saint Francis Found Chapter III - Francis the Fighter Chapter IV - Francis the Builder Chapter V - Le Jongleur de Dieu Chapter VI - The Little Poor Man Chapter VII...

The book analyzes all the works of the great author; here Dickens is seen as one of the greatest novelists. Chesterton does not view Dickens as the product of English Puritan society. A brilliant work that captures the essence of Dickens' work and helps the reader in understanding them.

THE Book of Job is among the other Old Testament Books both a philosophical riddle and a historical riddle. Controversy has long raged about which parts of this epic belong to its original scheme and which are interpolations of considerably later date. The doctors disagree, as it is the business of...

The Club of Queer Trades is a collection of stories by G. K. Chesterton first published in 1905. Each story in the collection is centered on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means (a "queer trade"). Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Known for both his fiction and non-fiction, including classics like Orthodoxy and his popular Father Brown mysteries, G.K. Chesterton is highly regarded as a writer of piercing insight and comic wit. The Napoleon of Notting Hill and The Man Who was Thursday are among his most loved novels. The first...

Edgar Allan Poe, creador del detective de razonamiento perfecto que siempre descubre al culpable. Arthur Conan Doyle, autor del gran Sherlock Holmes y de su inseparable amigo, el Dr. Watson. G. K. Chesterton, creador del Padre Brown, un sacerdote de gran ingenio al que no se le resiste ningún misterio....