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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 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 […]
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 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. […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. Format: Paperback Manalive. ISBN: […]