Monatsarchive: Juli 2017

The Wisdom of Father Brown

The Wisdom of Father Brown – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The small Catholic priest at his best again! Talcs of crime and discovery, clues and false leads and all the rest of the thrilling material which will make any normal human being sit up and keep on sitting up long past the proper hour for bed. The stories deal with the different strata of society, from the ventriloquist (in a London lodging house, who was found tied and apparently gagged, but instead of being the victim of a supposed murderer, was simply interrupted in his secret practice of new tricks) to the mysterious death of a celebrated actress almost in the presence of her five suitors, and the death of a Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Flying Inn

The Flying Inn – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The Flying Inn may be briefly characterised as a narrative comic opera. It follows the Gilbertian formula of satirising actual anomalies by carrying them out quite logically to burlesque extremes; and the resemblance is heightened by the serio-comic songs with which the characters regale one another throughout the story. Mr. Chesterton takes Prohibition for his point of attack, as it might have been Chancery or Aestheticism or the Admiralty; and his fantasy develops out of the ridiculous facts with the same methodical madness, the same wild precision of logic, which make Patience and Iolanthe and Pinafore a dithering delight. The aristocrat of the hour, becoming fanatical upon the subject of the Higher Orientalism, Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Victorian Age in Literature

The Victorian Age in Literature – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Mr. Chesterton’s contribution to the Home University Library Series is not a discussion of literature in the Victorian Age, but of the significance of the Victorian Age in literature. He takes up separately, it is true, the great names of the period and succeeds in giving a singularly rounded and integral impression of each of several noted writers. But the whole takes on a unity distinct and impressive, due to the author’s very clear conception of the age and the part which its literature as a whole played in modern development.

The Victorian Age in Literature

The Victorian Age in Literature

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The Victorian Age in Literature.

ISBN: 9783849677787.

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A Miscellany of Men

A Miscellany of Men – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Every new volume of Chesterton’s essays seems more brilliant, breezily humorous, and astonishingly clever than the last. Nor must one hastily conclude that the author is not profound because he is constantly witty and frequently funny. On the contrary, he reasons admirably and sees keenly and justly. And this combination of snap and sparkle with underlying solid sense make him peculiarly attractive to clever people.

A Miscellany of Men

A Miscellany of Men

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A Miscellany of Men.

ISBN: 9783849677770.

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Biography 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, … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Types of Genesis

The Types of Genesis – Andrew Jukes

Mr. Jukes maintains that the acts of God in the natural world, and the events that spring from them, are types of analogous acts and events in the spiritual world; and it is the aim of his volume to draw a parallel between the creation of the earth and man, and the renovation of the mind by the Spirit, and to show that Adam, Cain, Abel, Noah, Abraham, and others, are types, in their experiences and characters, of the experiences and characters of men generally in the sphere of religion.

The Types of Genesis

The Types of Genesis

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The Types of Genesis.

ISBN: 9783849677763.

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Eight Pillars Of Prosperity

Eight Pillars Of Prosperity – James Allen

In his preface to this volume the author says that “the moral virtues are the foundation and support of prosperity as they are the soul of greatness. They endure forever, and all the works of man which endure are built upon them. Without them there is neither strength, stability, nor substantial reality, but only epemeral dreams.” And accordingly we find the “eight pillars of prosperity” treated of in this book to be-Energy, Economy, Integrity, System, Sympathy, Sincerity, Impartiality and Self-Reliance, upon which is built “The Temple of Prosperity,” and to each of these virtues as a heading he devotes a chapter, each subdivided into “elements,” as Industry, Efficiency, Honesty, Accuracy, Insight, Simplicity, Justice, Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is often considered Twain’s greatest masterpiece. Combining his raw humor and startlingly mature material, Twain developed a novel that directly attacked many of the traditions the South held dear at the time of its publication. Huckleberry Finn is the main character, and through his eyes, the reader sees and judges the South, its faults, and its redeeming qualities. Huck’s companion Jim, a runaway slave, provides friendship and protection while the two journey along the Mississippi on their raft. (From Gradesaver.com)

The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

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The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn.

ISBN: 9783849677749.

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The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde

The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson

The book which put Stevenson’s name in the mouth of the ‘ man in the street,’ lifted him at a single bound to a place among men of the time and, by the still greater sensation which it created in America, led to the large income which soon afterwards he drew from the United States. The ear of a great public to whom his earlier writings were unknown was captured by this intense picture of the elements of good and evil in man’s nature. It was hailed from pulpits and in the religious press as a great moral parable; though its moral quality, on close analysis, is Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Heart Of Midlothian

The Heart Of Midlothian – Sir Walter Scott

The Porteous Riot, which occurred in Edinburgh during the reign of George II, is the historical rallying point of this story of Scotch middle life. The narrative, however, harks back several months and also extends forward some years; the present argument, therefore, will be more intelligible if it gives the facts in their proper order, rather than as set forth in the opening chapters of the novel. David Deans, an honest but stern old Scotch Covenanter and farmer, marries twice in the course of his life, and by each wife has a daughter—Jeanie being some ten years older than her half-sister, Effie. Jeanie has two suitors—a childhood’s playmate, Reuben Butler, now a Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Manalive

Manalive – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

A fanciful and altogether delightful tale of the doings of Innocent Smith, who reminds himself by every possible shock to the intellect that he is a man alive, walking on two legs. The story is replete with Chestertonian wit and humor and is a joy throughout.

Manalive

Manalive

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Manalive.

ISBN: 9783849677718.

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Biography 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 ...

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