The Poet and the Lunatics
Episodes in the Life of Gabriel Gale
Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Mystery & Suspense
| Author: | G. K. Chesterton | ISBN: | 9780486140025 |
| Publisher: | Dover Publications | Publication: | September 21, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Dover Publications | Language: | English |
| Author: | G. K. Chesterton |
| ISBN: | 9780486140025 |
| Publisher: | Dover Publications |
| Publication: | September 21, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Dover Publications |
| Language: | English |
An eccentric poet acts as spiritual detective in eight thought-provoking tales. Gabriel Gale employs his extraordinary gifts of empathy to solve and prevent crimes perpetrated by madmen. His philosophical police-work forms the basis for captivating explorations of poetry, insanity, and sin — all expressed in the author's characteristic paradoxes and soaring flights of rhetoric.
Best known as the creator of priest-detective Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) ranks among the twentieth century's most influential writers and thinkers. His prodigious talents embraced a wide range of subjects and genres, from philosophy and religion to history, literary criticism, and fantasy.
An eccentric poet acts as spiritual detective in eight thought-provoking tales. Gabriel Gale employs his extraordinary gifts of empathy to solve and prevent crimes perpetrated by madmen. His philosophical police-work forms the basis for captivating explorations of poetry, insanity, and sin — all expressed in the author's characteristic paradoxes and soaring flights of rhetoric.
Best known as the creator of priest-detective Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) ranks among the twentieth century's most influential writers and thinkers. His prodigious talents embraced a wide range of subjects and genres, from philosophy and religion to history, literary criticism, and fantasy.
