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Orthodoxy (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading) by G K Chesterton
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit | Series: B&n Library of Essential Reading
Chesterton's "Orthodoxy" is not an explanation "of whether the Christian Faith can be believed, but of how he personally has come to believe it." He begins with a description of how he sets out to find a new anchor for his thought in an age of uncertainty and discovers at every step along the way that w ...Show more
The Christmas Books - a Christmas Carol, the Chimes, the Cricket on the Hearth, the Battle of Life, & the Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain - with Appreciations and Criticisms by G. K. Chesterton by Charles Dickens; G. K. Chesterton (Notes by)
Category: Classics
This gorgeous, festive collection features five Christmas stories by the marvellous Charles Dickens. Dickens' Christmas books perfectly capture the spirit of Victorian Christmas and will transport you back into a warming world of festive cheer. His stories inspired many much-loved Christmas traditions, ...Show more
The Complete Father Brown Stories by G. K. Chesterton
Category: Fiction
Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk dumpling, Father Brown makes for an improbable super-sleuth. But his innocence is the secret of his success: refusing the scientific method of detection, he adopts instead an approach of simple sympathy, interpreting each crime as a work of art, and each ...Show more
The Incredulity Of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton
Category: Classics
This is the third volume of stories featuring the cunning clerical sleuth Father Brown. Ahead of a new series of the popular BBC adaptation starring Mark Williams, all five of Chesterton's original Father Brown books have been republished with charming and collectible Penguin covers. 'That sort of thing ...Show more
The Man Who Knew Too Much by G. K. Chesterton
Category: Accessories
The Man Who Knew Too Much G. K. Chesterton Dr. Ben McKenna (James Stewart) is on vacation with his wife (Doris Day) and son in Morocco when a chance encounter with a stranger sets their trip, and their lives, on a drastically different course. The stranger, killed in front of the family in the marketpla ...Show more
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
Category: Classics
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton '"A man's brain is a bomb," he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence. "My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand It must expand A man's brain must expa ...Show more
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
Category: Classics | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Can you trust yourself when you don't know who you are? 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'.In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes ...Show more
The Man Who Was Thursday - A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton
Category: Picture Books
G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday is a thrilling novel of deception, subterfuge, double-crossing and secret identities, and this "Penguin Classics" edition is edited with an introduction by Matthew Beaumont. The Central Anarchist Council is a secret society sworn to destroy the world. The coun ...Show more
The Mystery of the Skeleton Key by Bernard Capes; G. K. Chesterton (Introduction by); Hugh Lamb (Preface by)
Category: Classics | Series: Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.
The fourth in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins involves a tragic accident during a shooting party. As the story switches between Paris and Hampshire, the possibility of it not being an accident seems to grow more likely."The Detective Story Club", launched by Co ...Show more
The Napoleon of Notting Hill & The Man Who was Thursday by G K Chesterton
Category: Classics
G. K. Chesterton is already a staple in the Hendrickson list with Orthodoxy and Heretics in the Hendrickson Christian Classics series. Known primarily for his non-fiction, he also wrote fiction, and The Napoleon of Notting Hill and The Man Who was Thursday are among his best known and most loved novels. ...Show more
The Scandal of Father Brown (#5 Father Brown) by G. K. Chesterton
Category: Classics
'It would not be fair to record the adventures of Father Brown, without admitting that he was once involved in a grave scandal...It happened in a picturesque Mexican road-house of rather loose repute...' After many years in the priesthood, Father Brown knows human nature and is not afraid of its dark si ...Show more