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Chesterton was an orthodox religious person, eventually converting to Roman Catholicism. In 1923, he wrote this short biography of St. Francis of Assisi, after whom Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio chose his papal name, Pope Francis, when he was elected as the 266th and current Pope of the Catholic Church, on 13 March 2013. The biography of St. Francis may help one understand why the Pope chose St. Francis as his namesake. Chesterton begins:"A sketch of St. Francis of Assisi in modern English may be written in one of three ways. Between these the writer must make his selection; ... First, he may deal with this great and most amazing man as a figure in secular history and a model of social virtues. ... Second, he may go to the opposite extreme, and decide, as it were, to be defiantly devotional. ... Third, he may try to do what I have tried to do here; ... I am here addressing the ordinary common man, sympathetic but sceptical, and I can only rather hazily hope that, by approaching the great saint's story through what is evidently picturesque and popular about it, I may at least leave the reader understanding a little more than he did before of the consistency of a complete character; ...." "Here is an historical character which is admittedly attractive to many of us already, by its gaiety, its romantic imagination, its spiritual courtesy and cameraderie, but which also contains elements (evidently equally sincere and emphatic) which seem to you quite remote and repulsive. But after all, this man was a man and not half a dozen men. What seems inconsistency to you did not seem inconsistency to him. Let us see whether we can understand, with the help of the existing understanding, these other things that now seem to be doubly dark, by their intrinsic gloom and their ironic contrast."

Twelve mysteries featuring Father Brown, the short, stumpy Catholic priest with "uncanny insight into human evil."

From the introduction:"I publish these essays at the present time for a particular reason connected with the present situation; a reason which I should like briefly to emphasise and make clear.Though most of the conclusions, especially towards the end, are conceived with reference to recent events, the actual bulk of preliminary notes about the science of Eugenics were written before the war.[...]"

From London to Cornwall, then to Italy and France, a short, shabby priest runs to earth bandits, traitors, killers. Why is he so successful? The reason is that after years spent in the priesthood, Father Brown knows human nature and is not afraid of its dark side. Thus he understands criminal motivation and how to deal with it. The stories included are "The Paradise of Thieves," "The Duel of Dr. Hirsch," "The Man in the Passage," "The Mistakes of the Machine," "The Head of the Caesar," "The Purple Wig," "The Perishing of the Pendragons," "The God of the Gongs," "The Salad of the Colonel Cray," "The Strange Crime of John Boulnois" and "The Fairy Tale of Father Brown."

Though he was on the whole a fun loving and gregarious man, during adolescence Chesterton was troubled by thoughts of suicide. In Christianity he found answers to many of the dilemmas and paradoxes of life. Throughout Heretics he provides a very personal critique of contemporary religious notions. His consistently engaging but often wayward humour is mixed liberally with daring flights of fancy and some startling turns of thought. A highly original collection of essays, providing an invaluable contribution to one of the major debates of the last century - one that continues to exercise leading thinkers in the present one.

A collection of related short stories by British author G. K. Chesterton. Each story is centered on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means (a "queer trade"). To gain admittance to the Club, one must have a unique queer trade as principal source of income. "Cherub" Swinburne describes his quest for The Club of Queer Trades with his friend Basil Grant, a retired judge, and Rupert Grant, a private detective who is Basil's younger brother. Each of the stories describes their encounter with one of the trades. In the final story, Rupert Grant rescues a lady from her kidnappers but cannot understand why she refuses to be rescued. The answer leads to the unveiling of the mystery of The Club of Queer Trades.First published by Harper & Brothers, London, 1905.

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a novel by G. K. Chesterton, first published in 1908. The book has been referred to as a metaphysical thriller.Although it deals with anarchists, the novel is not an exploration or rebuttal of anarchist thought; Chesterton's ad hoc construction of "Philosophical Anarchism" is distinguished from ordinary anarchism and is referred to several times not so much as a rebellion against government but as a rebellion against God.The novel has been described as "one of the hidden hinges of twentieth-century writing, the place where, before our eyes, the nonsense-fantastical tradition of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear pivots and becomes the nightmare-fantastical tradition of Kafka and Borges."

This contains the first 8 of the 12 stories in the published book The Man Who Knew Too Much and Other Stories. In these 8 detective thrillers, the main protagonist is Horne Fisher. (The omitted four are individual stories with separate heroes/detectives.)Due to close relationships with the leading political figures in the land, Fisher knows too much about the private politics behind the public politics of the day. This knowledge is a burden to him because he is able to uncover the injustices and corruptions of the murders in each story, but in most cases the real killer gets away with the killing because to bring him openly to justice would create a greater chaos: starting a war, reinciting Irish rebellions, or removing public faith in the government.A film of the same title was made in 1934 and remade in 1956, both directed by Alfred Hitchcock, but the films had nothing at all in common (except the title) with these short stories. Hitchcock decided to use the title simply because he had the rights for some of the stories.(Reference: Wikipedia)

Orthodoxy (1908) is a book by G. K. Chesterton that has become a classic of Christian apologetics. Chesterton considered this book a companion to his other work, Heretics. In the book's preface Chesterton states the purpose is to "attempt an explanation, not of whether the Christian Faith can be believed, but of how he personally has come to believe it." In it, Chesterton presents an original view of Christian religion. He sees it as the answer to natural human needs, the "answer to a riddle" in his own words, and not simply as an arbitrary truth received from somewhere outside the boundaries of human experience.

In the October 1914 issue of the British magazine The Premier, Sir Max Pemberton published the first part of this story, inviting a number of writers, including Chesterton, to use their talents to solve the mystery of the murder described. Chesterton's solution followed in the form of a Father Brown story in the November issue.

The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a novel written by G. K. Chesterton in 1904, set in a nearly-unchanged London in 1984.Though the novel deals with the future, it concentrates not on technology nor on totalitarian government but on a government where no one cares what happens, comparable to Fahrenheit 451 in that respect.The dreary succession of randomly selected Kings of England is broken up when Auberon Quin, who cares for nothing but a good joke, is chosen. To amuse himself, he institutes elaborate costumes for the provosts of the districts of London. All are bored by the King's antics except for one earnest young man who takes the cry for regional pride seriously – Adam Wayne, the eponymous Napoleon of Notting Hill.While the novel is humorous (one instance has the King sitting on top of an omnibus and speaking to it as to a horse: "Forward, my beauty, my Arab," he said, patting the omnibus encouragingly, "fleetest of all thy bounding tribe"), it is also an adventure story: Chesterton is not afraid to let blood be drawn in his battles, fought with sword and halberd in the London streets, and Wayne thinks up a few ingenious strategies; and, finally, the novel is philosophical, considering the value of one man's actions and the virtue of respect for one's enemies.

The Wild Knight and Other Poems was written in the year 1900 by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. This book is one of the most popular novels of Gilbert Keith Chesterton, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

Audiokniha Vánoční detektivky, kterou napsali Arthur Conan Doyle a Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Dvě klasické vánoční detektivky. Sherlock Holmes a doktor Watson řeší ve vánočním Londýně případ "Modrá karbunkule". Záhadu, ve které hraje svou významnou roli i vánoční husa, vyřeší velký detektiv a jeho pomocník jako vždy především důvtipem a logickou dedukcí

A modern ember fél a kereszténységtől - és fél a múlttól. A modern ember nem őrzi már dédapja emlékét, ellenben buzgón írja dédunokájának kimerítő és hiteles életrajzát. Walter Scott a XIX. század elején a múltnak regényeit írta; H. G. Wells a XX. század elején a jövő regényeit írja. A modern lelket hajszolja valami a jövő felé, a futurista álmok felé, nemcsak a fáradtság, hanem a félelem is, amellyel visszatekint a múltba. És nemcsak attól fél, ami a múltban rossz volt, hanem attól is retteg, ami jó és szép volt benne. A jövő fehér fal, amelyre minden ember ráírhatja a nevét, amilyen nagy betűkkel akarja; a múlt fala azonban tele van olvashatatlan karcolásokkal, mint például Platón, Ézsaiás, Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Napóleon. A jövőt olyan keskenyre szabhatom, mint amilyen magam vagyok, de a múlt olyan széles és élénk, mint az emberiség. A modern ember egész magatartása így értelmezhető: az emberek kitalálnak új ideálokat, mert nem merik megpróbálni a régi ideálokat. Lelkesülten néznek a jövőbe, mert nem mernek a múltba nézni. (Részlet Hevesi Sándor előszavából)

Egy angol ember semmire sem vágyik jobban, mint hogy a napi munkák végeztével betérjen kedvenc pubjába. Egy új törvénynek köszönhetően azonban sorra elkezdik bezárni a kocsmákat országszerte. Patrick Dalroy, az ír tengerészkapitány és Humphrey Pump, a Vén Hajó nevű szesztanya tulajdonosa azonban közösen furfangos tervet eszel ki a rendelkezés kijátszására: az ivót kocsira rakják, és járni kezdik vele a vidéket, egyre komolyabb fejtörést okozva a hatóságoknak. Mindeközben Anglia az uralkodó politikai erők játékszereként a legdrákóibb iszlám szabályozást vezetné be az alkoholfogyasztás visszaszorítására, de a vándorló kocsma egykettőre az ellenállás jelképévé válik, filozófiai magasságokba emelve az ivás hagyományát. Hiszen jól tudjuk: a lé határozza meg a tudatot. Gilbert Keith Chesterton angol író, a jámbor Brown atya és Az ember, aki Csütörtök volt megteremtője olyan hírességeknek szolgált inspirációul, mint az ír politikus Michael Collins, Mahatma Gandhi vagy az argentin Jorge Luis Borges. Ezzel a művével, mely jócskán megelőzte korát, és manapság vált csak igazán aktuálissá, azt a tételt igazolja zseniálisan, miszerint az egyik ember utópiája a másik számára rémálom lehet. „Chesterton minden mondata mögött egy olyan ember áll, aki festeni képes a szavakkal.” – Neil Gaiman „Méltatlanul elfeledett prófétai mű az európai társadalmak iszlamizálódásáról.” – The American Spectator

"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 expand, if it breaks up the universe"'. In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist. Sworn to do his duty, 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'. When Syme discovers another undercover policeman on the Council, however, he starts to question his role in their operations. And as a desperate chase across Europe begins, his confusion grows, as well as his confidence in his ability to outwit his enemies. But he has still to face the greatest terror that the Council has: a man named Sunday, whose true nature is worse than Syme could ever have imagined...The "Penguin English Library" - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.