No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be'With his round, unassuming face, his pipe and umbrella, the bumbling priest Father Brown makes for an improbable detect...
Armed with a donkey cart filled with rum, cheese and a tavern signpost, pub owner Humphrey Hump and Captain Patrick Dalroy, a crimson-haired giant with a tendency to burst into song, take to the ro...
Chesterton’s last novel is a reflection of his first novel. Michael Herne, the librarian at Seawood Abbey, is asked to play the part of a medieval king. He not only takes his role seriously b...
Perhaps the most light-hearted of all Chesterton’s works, „Manalive” follows the fun loving Innocent Smith who, after bringing joy to a boarding house, is charged with a series of...
A novel series by G.K. Chesterton of four intertwined novellas whose central characters appear to be involved in murder, fraud, theft and treason. Are these friends involved in crimes? Are these in...
Father Brown is one of the Hound’s greatest crime fighters and his creator, Chesterton, one of the masters of the short crime story. Father Brown is the second among the Great literary detect...
Chesterton again allows us to accompany Father Brown, preternaturally-unbiased master of human nature, as he stumbles across another series of murders and mysteries. These stories in this series ar...
In Chesterton’s second Father Brown book, „The Wisdom of Father Brown,” we get a series of bizarre, sometimes dangerous mysteries that Father Brown must puzzle out. Some of the cr...
Have you wondered how the great detectives solved their cases? In The Secret of Father Brown, while visiting Flambeau’s house Father Brown meets a curious American who has to know as some of ...
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare was written by G.K. Chesterton and published in 1908. Ostensibly about a secret policeman investigating anarchists, it becomes a surreal and philosophical nove...
The Incredulity of Father Brown is the third collection of short mysteries by G.K. Chesterton about that character. In The Incredulity of Father Brown, all the stories involve murders and conflicts...
Meet Auberon Quin. He is a man to whom the world is a punchline; a dangerous man, for he cares for nothing but a joke. And meet Adam Wayne – to whom the joke is quite serious. When Quin is ap...
W Ortodoksji Chesterton, zaskakując trafnością i aktualnością spostrzeżeń, zaprasza czytelnika do jedynej w swoim rodzaju podróży – z domu wariatów do świata pełnego codziennych...
„ G.K. Chesterton potraktował sam siebie dokładnie w taki sam sposób, w jaki traktował bohaterów innych swoich prac biograficznych: Browninga, Shawa czy Blake’a. Nie znajd...
„Trąbka wyobraźni, jak trąba Zmartwychwstania, wzywa umarłych do powstania z grobu”G. K. Chesterton „Obrona rzeczy wzgardzonych”Zbiór niepublikowany...
Jedna z najważniejszych książek w dorobku wybitnego angielskiego pisarza i publicysty. Jest w niej dowcip i humor, ale też wojowniczość, bo zawarte w niej eseje miały być z założenia polemiczne i ...
Jedna z najważniejszych książek w dorobku wybitnego angielskiego pisarza i publicysty. Jest w niej dowcip i humor, ale też wojowniczość, bo zawarte w niej eseje miały być z założenia polemiczne i ...
G. K. Chesterton was born in London in 1874. He went to St Paul's School and then on to the Slade School of Art. In 1900, he was asked to write a few magazine articles on art criticism, and from th...
G. K. Chesterton was born in London in 1874. He went to St Paul's School and then on to the Slade School of Art. In 1900, he was asked to write a few magazine articles on art criticism, and from th...
„Źródło i mielizny” to kontynuacja zbioru esejów zatytułowanego „Dla Sprawy”. Tym razem autor zamierzał pisać w tonie zupełnie poważnym, ale i tak wkradło się ...