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The Man Who Was Thursday – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Mr. Chesterton is such a past-master in sophistries and casuistry, such a juggler of paradoxes, such an adept in the arts whereby the brilliant and quick-witted pull the wool over the eyes of their less gifted brethren, that he can give full and serious credibility to his tale of the astounding adventures of the detective who was admitted into the innermost circle of anarchists. It is the poetic anarchist, with hair like a Madonna’s and the face of a prize-fighter, who tries (unsuccessfully) to become Thursday.

The Man Who Was Thursday

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The Man Who Was Thursday.

ISBN: 9783849678982

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Heretics – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Mr. Gilbert Chesterton is quite on his own ground in writing essays about about Heretics. Such subjects as Kipling, Shaw, Whistler, H. G. Wells, the new paganism, and the importance of orthodoxy possess brilliancy enough in themselves to satisfy even this arch-priest of brilliancy in style.

Heretics

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Heretics.

ISBN: 9783849678975

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Summary of Gilbert Keith Chesterton (from Wikipedia):

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936), better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. Chesterton is often referred to as the “prince of paradox”. Time magazine has observed of … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Club of Queer Trades – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

A collection of a half-dozen stories. Only those persons who have contrived some unusual means of earning a livelihood are eligible for membership in the Club of Queer Trades. One member of this club undertakes to fit every one with a suitable romance; another tries to organise repartee, and to promote table talk and drawing-room conversation, etc.. In depicting the extraordinary adventures and unheard of occupations of this original band, Mr. Chesterton has given us fiction of a highly entertaining type.

The Club of Queer Trades

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The Club of Queer Trades.

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The Napoleon of Notting Hill – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Mad, perfectly mad, madder than the immortal tea-party of Alice, is the thought while reading this novel, or satire, or caricature, or allegory, or farce, or joke, or whatever it is, which Mr. Chesterton has published. When you have finished reading the book, you lay it down and positively gasp, your brain whirls and you stagger with the question whether you have been reading a book, or dreaming a dream. You feel of the book, find it there — very substantial, and then you wonder whether you or the writer is mad: it must be one or the other. Then you remember that Mr. Chesterton is a perfectly sane man, a … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Defendant – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

In an introduction the author humorously offers his reasons for defending the things not generally liked. Following are special defences of “penny dreadfuls,” rash vows, skeletons, publicity, nonsense, planets, China shepherdesses, useful information, heraldry, ugly things, farce, humility, slang, baby worship, detective stories and patriotism.

The Defendant

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The Defendant.

ISBN: 9783849679316

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Summary of Gilbert Keith Chesterton (from Wikipedia):

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936), better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. Chesterton is often referred to as the “prince of paradox”. Time magazine has … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Poems – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Chesterton wrote several hundred poems. This book features the most prominent of them, divided into the following sections:

Three Dedications
War Poems
Love Poems
Religious Poems
Rhymes For The Times
Miscellaneous Poems
Ballades

Poems

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Poems.

ISBN: 9783849679309

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Summary of Gilbert Keith Chesterton (from Wikipedia):

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936), better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. Chesterton is often referred to as the “prince of paradox”. Time magazine has observed of his writing style: “Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...