CHESTERTON GILBERT-KEITH

(P/B) ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Robert Louis Stevevson, the great Scottish writer, was often harshly treated by the critics. Chesterton was a great admirer of his work and his beautiful and piercing sense of the clarity of form. With critical insight and perceptive analysis, Chesterton explores Stevensons life and relates the biographical details to his work in an intelligent and subtle study of the creator of Kidnapped and The Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE SELECTED WORKS OF G.K. CHESTERTON
G. K. CHESTERTON WAS BORN IN LONDON IN 1874. He went to St Paul's School and then on to the Slade School of Art. In 1900, he was asked to write a few magazine articles on art criticism, and from that beginning went on to become not only one of the most prolific writers of all time but, in the opinion of some, the best writer of the twentieth century. Chesterton, an absent-minded, overgrown elf of a man, standing 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighing around 21 stone, was a well-known figure invariably to be seen in voluminous cape and crumpled ...
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(P/B) AUTOBIOGRAPHY
In Autobiography Chesterton describes his happy childhood, the intellectual doubts and morbidities of his youth and his search for a true vocation. He includes many anecdotes about his literary friends, Henry James, George Bernard Shaw, and H G Wells. But it is his quest for religious conviction and his conversion to Catholicism that is central to his story which he tells with great modesty, gentleness and intelligence. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) HERETICS
Though he was on the whole a fun loving and gregarious man, during adolescence Chesterton was troubled by thoughts of suicide. In Christianity he found answers to many of the dilemmas and paradoxes of life. Throughout Heretics he provides a very personal critique of contemporary religious notions. His consistently engaging but often wayward humour is mixed liberally with daring flights of fancy and some startling turns of thought. A highly original contribution to one of the major debates of the last century - one that continues to exercis...
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(H/B) FATHER BROWN
Father Brown, a small, round Catholic priest with a remarkable understanding of the criminal mind, is one of literature's most unusual and endearing detectives, able to solve the strangest crimes in a most fascinating manner. This collection draws from all five Father Brown books, and within their remarkable range these stories contain as much wisdom as they do wonder. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) FATHER BROWN STORIES
A small, disorganized, ordinary priest, Father Brown is an unlikely genius when it comes to piecing together strange and mysterious clues. Yet his ingenuity and intuition are unsurpassed, and his gift for deduction raises him to the top rank of investigators. The stories in this volume are brimming with original and witty ideas, some of which turn the classic mystery story on its head. Father Brown himself, inept, unworldly but extremely astute, also breaks with tradition in becoming one of the great men of detective fiction. (From the pub...
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(P/B) THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY
In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist. Sworn to do his duty, Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe's Central Anarchist Council and infiltrate their deadly mission, even managing to have himself voted to the position of Thursday'. When Syme discovers another undercover policeman on the Council, however, he starts to question his role in their operations. And as a desperate chase across Europe begins, his confusion grows, as well as his confidence in his ability to ...
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(P/B) THE INCREDULITY OF FATHER BROWN
Sensation followed the sudden death of G.K. Chesterton’s eccentric sleuth; as well it might, when he sat up in his coffin and applied a little quiet detachment to the incident. But then sensation was implicit in all the cases Father Brown so modestly handled. These stories have delighted three generations of readers and now, with a sparkling new foreword by Ann Widdecombe, they are set to thrill and entertain a whole new audience. (from the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE NAPOLEON OF NOTTING HILL
A little government minister is made King. The boroughs are suddenly declared separate kingdoms with their own city guard, banner and gathering cry and the capital is plunged into a strange type medieval warfare. Then Notting Hill declares its independence... (from the publisher)...
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ΛΕΡΟΥ - ΤΣΕΣΤΕΡΤΟΝ - ΜΠΙΡΣ: ΔΙΗΓΗΜΑΤΑ
Οι αμαρτίες του πρίγκιπα Σαραντίν ΓΚ. Κ. ΤΣΕΣΤΕΡΤΟΝ Το σφυρί του Θεού ΓΚ. Κ. ΤΣΕΣΤΕΡΤΟΝ Τα τρία εργαλεία του θανάτου ΓΚ. Κ. ΤΣΕΣΤΕΡΤΟΝ Σε γράμματα από φωτιά ΓΚΑΣΤΟΝ ΛΕΡΟΥ Ένας καβαλάρης στον ουρανό ΑΜΠΡΟΖ ΜΠΙΡΣ...
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EUGENICS AND OTHER EVILS (P/B)

FATHER BROWN

ΤΟ ΣΚΑΝΔΑΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΤΡΟΣ ΜΠΡΑΟΥΝ

ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥΓΕΝΝΑ
" [...] Η ίδια η ουσία μιας χρονιάρας μέρας έγκειται στο ότι μας επιβάλλεται ξαφνικά και με λαμπρότητα, κι ενώ τη μια στιγμή δεν είναι γιορτή, την επομένη είναι. [...] έχει σημασία η μεσολάβηση κάποιου ξεκάθαρου διαχωριστικού ορίου ανάμεσα σ' αυτή και στη χρονική περίοδο που προηγείται. Άλλωστε, ήταν μέσα στο πνεύμα των παλαιών σοφών εθίμων των σχετικών με τα Χριστούγεννα κανείς να μην αγγίζει ούτε να βλέπει ούτε να μαθαίνει ούτε να μιλά για ό,τιδήποτε σχετικό... [...] Βέβαια, όλη αυτή η τήρηση μυστικότητας περί τα Χριστούγεννα δεν είναι π...
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(P/B) THE COMPLETE FATHER BROWN
Immortalized in these famous stories, G.K. Chesterton's endearing amateur sleuth has entertained countless generations of readers. For, as his admirers know, Father Brown's cherubic face and unworldly simplicity, his glasses and his huge umbrella, disguise a quite uncanny understanding of the criminal mind at work. (From the publisher)...
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