The Essential Gilbert K Chesterton Vol Ii

Author : Gilbert K. Chesterton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1627931619
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton written by Gilbert K. Chesterton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are G. K. Chesterton's most influential non-fiction books collected here in one binding. In Orthodoxy, Gilbert K. Chesterton explains how and why he came to believe in Christianity and more specifically the Catholic Church's brand of orthodoxy. In the book, Chesterton takes the spiritually curious reader on an intellectual quest. While looking for the meaning of life, he finds truth that uniquely fulfills human needs. This is the truth revealed in Christianity. Chesterton likens this discovery to a man setting off from the south coast of England, journeying for many days, only to arrive at Brighton, the point he originally left from. Such a man, he proposes, would see the wondrous place he grew up in with newly appreciative eyes. This is a common theme in Chesterton's works, and one which he gave fictional embodiment to in Manalive. A truly lively and enlightening book! In What's Wrong With The World Chesterton rightly points out that what people see as "wrong with the world" are only the symptoms of a deeper problem. He shows that our governments, be they capitalistic or socialistic, also fail to see the deeper problem. With a keen wit and lively prose he cuts directly to the true problems that society must deal with and his solutions feel utterly correct. In Heretics, Gilbert K. Chesterton rails against what he sees as wrong with society. He points out how society has gone astray and how life and spiritually could be brought back into focus.

Author : G K Chesterton
Publisher : Start Classics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton Vol. II written by G K Chesterton and published by Start Classics. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected here in one volume are Gilbert K. Chesterton¿s most influential works of fiction. Harold March the rising reviewer and social critic was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and commons the horizon of which was fringed with the far-off woods of the famous estate of Torwood Park. He was a good-looking young man in tweeds with very pale curly hair and pale clear eyes. Harold March was the sort of man who knows everything about politics and nothing about politicians. He also knew a great deal about art letters philosophy and general culture; about almost everything indeed except the world he was living in. In The Man Who Was Thursday we are transported to a surreal turn-of-the-century London Gabriel Syme is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist taskforce at Scotland Yard. Syme manages to infiltrate the anarchists and becomes a local representative to the worldwide Central Council of Anarchists. The Council consists of seven men each using the name of a day of the week as a code name; Syme is given the name of Thursday. In his efforts to thwart the council's intentions however he discovers that five of the other six members are also undercover detectives; and they must chase down the disturbing and whimsical man who calls himself ¿The Peace of God.¿In Manalive we follow the madcap adventure of Innocent Smith. Innocent Smith is a man who keeps the commandments but breaks all the conventions and while doing so he shows us just how absurd those conventions are. Follow him as he breaks into his own house and then carries on a torrid affair with his own wife. Enjoy a picnic on the roof and then leave home just for the sake of returning home. A joyous and uplifting book.

Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher : Wilder Publications Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781604591576
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton Vol. I written by G. K. Chesterton and published by Wilder Publications Limited. This book was released on 2008-01-08 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are G. K. Chesterton's most influential non-fiction books collected here in one binding. In Orthodoxy, Gilbert K. Chesterton explains how and why he came to believe in Christianity and more specifically the Catholic Church's brand of orthodoxy. In the book, Chesterton takes the spiritually curious reader on an intellectual quest. While looking for the meaning of life, he finds truth that uniquely fulfills human needs. This is the truth revealed in Christianity. Chesterton likens this discovery to a man setting off from the south coast of England, journeying for many days, only to arrive at Brighton, the point he originally left from. Such a man, he proposes, would see the wondrous place he grew up in with newly appreciative eyes. This is a common theme in Chesterton's works, and one which he gave fictional embodiment to in Manalive. A truly lively and enlightening book! In What's Wrong With The World Chesterton rightly points out that what people see as "wrong with the world" are only the symptoms of a deeper problem. He shows that our governments, be they capitalistic or socialistic, also fail to see the deeper problem. With a keen wit and lively prose he cuts directly to the true problems that society must deal with and his solutions feel utterly correct. In Heretics, Gilbert K. Chesterton rails against what he sees as wrong with society. He points out how society has gone astray and how life and spiritually could be brought back into focus.

Author : Gilbert K. Chesterton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1627931597
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton written by Gilbert K. Chesterton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected here, in one volume are Gilbert K. Chesterton¿s most influential works of fiction. Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and commons, the horizon of which was fringed with the far-off woods of the famous estate of Torwood Park. He was a good-looking young man in tweeds, with very pale curly hair and pale clear eyes. Harold March was the sort of man who knows everything about politics, and nothing about politicians. He also knew a great deal about art, letters, philosophy, and general culture; about almost everything, indeed, except the world he was living in. In The Man Who Was Thursday we are transported to a surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist taskforce at Scotland Yard. Syme manages to infiltrate the anarchists and becomes a local representative to the worldwide Central Council of Anarchists. The Council consists of seven men, each using the name of a day of the week as a code name; Syme is given the name of Thursday. In his efforts to thwart the council's intentions, however, he discovers that five of the other six members are also undercover detectives; and they must chase down the disturbing and whimsical man who calls himself ¿The Peace of God.¿ In Manalive we follow the madcap adventure of Innocent Smith. Innocent Smith is a man who keeps the commandments but breaks all the conventions, and while doing so he shows us just how absurd those conventions are. Follow him as he breaks into his own house, and then carries on a torrid affair with his own wife. Enjoy a picnic on the roof and then leave home just for the sake of returning home. A joyous and uplifting book.

Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0812972228
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Father Brown written by G. K. Chesterton and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2005-04-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown may seem a pleasantly doddering Roman Catholic priest, but appearances deceive. With keen observation and an unerring sense of man’s frailties–gained during his years listening to confessions–Father Brown succeeds in bringing even the most elusive criminals to justice. This definitive collection of fifteen stories, selected by the American Chesterton Society, includes such classics as “The Blue Cross,” “The Secret Garden,” and “The Paradise of Thieves.” As P. D. James writes in her Introduction, “We read the Father Brown stories for a variety pleasures, including their ingenuity, their wit and intelligence, and for the brilliance of the writing. But they provide more. Chesterton was concerned with the greatest of all problems, the vagaries of the human heart.”

Author : Maisie Ward
Publisher : Aeterna Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 681 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gilbert Keith Chesterton written by Maisie Ward and published by Aeterna Press. This book was released on 1943 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The material for this book falls roughly into two parts: spoken and written. Gilbert Chesterton was not an old man when he died and many of his friends and contemporaries have told me incidents and recalled sayings right back to his early boyhood. This part of the material has been unusually rich and copious so that I could get a clearer picture of the boy and the young man than is usually granted to the biographer. Aeterna Press

Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1456613944
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Complete Works of G. K. Chesterton (Illustrated) written by G. K. Chesterton and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by G. K. Chesterton Table Of Contents ALARMS AND DISCURSIONS ALL THINGS CONSIDERED THE APPETITE OF TYRANNY APPRECIATIONS AND CRITICISMS OF THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS THE BALLAD OF THE WHITE HORSE THE BALL AND THE CROSS THE BARBARISM OF BERLIN THE CLUB OF QUEER TRADES THE CRIMES OF ENGLAND THE DEFENDANT EUGENICS AND OTHER EVILS GEORGE BERNARD SHAW HERETICS THE INNOCENCE OF FATHER BROWN LORD KITCHENER MAGIC A FANTASTIC COMEDY Manalive THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY A MISCELLANY OF MEN The Napoleon of Notting Hill THE NEW JERUSALEM ORTHODOXY ROBERT BROWNING A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLAND THE TREES OF PRIDE TREMENDOUS TRIFLES TWELVE TYPES Utopia of Usurers and other Essays _Varied Types_ THE VICTORIAN AGE IN LITERATURE WHAT I SAW IN AMERICA WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE WORLD THE WILD KNIGHT THE WISDOM OF FATHER BROWN

Author : Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192820563
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential G.K. Chesterton written by Gilbert Keith Chesterton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8726992620
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Varied Types written by G. K. Chesterton and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queens and Emperors, artists and poets, priests and politicians: all are subject to G. K. Chesterton’s collected biographies. ‘Varied Types’ spans the streets of London, travels to the edges of the British empire and doubles back into the depths of history. In a series of essays, Chesterton paints the portraits of England’s most influential figures, from Walter Scott to Lord Tennyson, and favours each with his authoritative wit. This continuation of the collection ‘Twelve Types’ adds eight spectacular essays, featuring Queen Victoria, Alfred the Great, John Ruskin, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and many more. A superb collection for readers of Chesterton which dives deep into the history of classic English literature. Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 – 1936) was an English writer, journalist, philosopher, and literary critic. An unparalleled essayist, he produced over four thousand essays during his lifetime, alongside eighty novels and two hundred short stories. Tackling topics of politics, history, philosophy, and theology with tenacious wit and humour, G. K. Chesterton was often considered a master of the paradox. Himself both a modernist and devout Catholic, he is remembered best for his priest-detective short stories ‘Father Brown’, and his metaphysical thriller ‘The Man Who Was Thursday’. In his lifetime, Chesterton befriended and debated some of the greatest thinkers of the age, such as George Bernard Shore, H. G. Wells, and Bertrand Russell, while his works went on to inspire figures including T. S. Eliot, Michael Collins, and Mahatma Gandhi.

Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher : Image
ISBN 13 : 0385015364
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orthodoxy written by G. K. Chesterton and published by Image. This book was released on 1991-07-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chesterton's timeless exploration of the essentials of Christian faith and of his pilgrimage to belief (more than 750,000 copies sold in the Image edition) is now reissued. For G.K. Chesterton, orthodoxy carries us into the land of romance, right action, and revolution. In Orthodoxy, a classic in religious autobiography, he tells of his pilgrimage there by way of the doctrines of Christianity set out in the Apostles' Creed. Where science seeks to explain all things in terms of calculation and necessary law, Chesterton argues on behalf of the Christian doctrines of mystery and free will. Sanity, he says, belongs to the poet who accepts the romance and drama of these beliefs rather than to the logician who does not. This sanity is not static. It does not mean merely learning the right doctrines and then lapsing into a refined meditation on them. Chesterton dismisses such an inactive belief as "the greatest disaster of the nineteenth century." For him, right thinking is a waste without right action. For Chesterton the populist, political ction often spells revolution. He discovers in the doctrines of original sin and the divinity of Christ ever-present seedbeds of revolt in the face of the tyrannies of money and power.