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G. K. ChestertonManalive March 1, Ignatius Press 2011 1586174797 / 9781586174798 Paperback New Ships in 10-14 Day After Release date* This classic novel by the brilliant G. K. Chesterton tells the rollicking tale of Innocent Smith, a man who may be crazy-- or possibly the most sane man of all. Arriving at a dreary London boarding house accompanied by a windstorm, Smith is an exuberant, eccentric and sweet-natured man. Smith has a positive effect on the house-- he creates his own court, brings a few couples together, and falls in love with a paid companion next door. All seems to be well with the world.
Then the unexpected happens: Smith shoots at one of the tenants, and two doctors arrive to arrest him, claiming that he's a bigamist, an attempted murderer, and a thief. But cynical writer Moon insists that the case be tried there-- and they explore Smith's past history, revealing startling truths about what he does. Is he the wickedest man in Britain, or is he "blameless as a buttercup?"
Beautifully written, mixing the ridiculous with the profound, full of hilarious dialogue, and lushly detailed writing, Chesterton's main character Innocent Smith somehow manages to restore joy to all the dull and cynical lives around him. In this delightfully strange mystery, Chesterton demonstrates why life is worth living, and that sometimes we need a little madness just to know we are alive. 9781586174798 0.00 Price:
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G. K. ChestertonThe Ball and the Cross Dover Publications 22/11/1995 0486288056 / 9780486288055 Paperback New Ships in 10-14 Day - Subject to Availability Chesterton's second novel chronicles a hot dispute between two Scotsmen, a Roman Catholic, and an atheist, whose fanatically held opinions inspire a host of comic adventures. The story's allegorical levels vigorously explore the debate between theism and atheism. Introduction by Martin Gardner. 9780486288055 0.00 Price:
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G. K. ChestertonThe Ball and the Cross Echo Library 22/08/2006 1406803073 / 9781406803075 Paperback New Ships in 10-14 Day - Subject to Availability Chesterton's second novel chronicles a hot dispute between two Scotsmen, a Roman Catholic, and an atheist, whose fanatically held opinions inspire a host of comic adventures. The story's allegorical levels vigorously explore the debate between theism and atheism. Introduction by Martin Gardner. 9781406803075 0.00 Price:
12.95 AUD
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The first one-volume reader of the best of G. K. Chesterton’s writing in the full range of genres he mastered.
Chesterton was a towering literary figure of the early twentieth century, accomplished and prolific in many literary forms. A forceful proponent of Christianity and a critic of both conservatism and liberalism, he set out to describe nothing less than the spiritual journey of humanity in Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man, his most enduring books. He is famous as well for his beloved Father Brown detective stories, his satirical and comic verse, his profoundly witty paradoxes and aphorisms, and his penetrating studies of such figures as Charles Dickens, St. Francis of Assisi, and St. Thomas Aquinas. The Everyman Chesterton contains samples of his poems, stories, essays, and biographies, as well as the influential works of religious, political, and social thought in which he championed the common man and for which he is most admired. 9780307594976 0.00 Price:
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G. K. ChestertonThe Man Who Was Thursday Lits 21/09/2010 1609420675 / 9781609420673 Paperback New Ships in 10-14 Day - Subject to Availability The Man Who Was Thursday is a novel sometimes referred to as a metaphysical thriller. The story takes place in a surreal turn-of-the-century London, where Gabriel Syme is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist taskforce at Scotland Yard. 9781609420673 0.00 Price:
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G. K. ChestertonThe Man Who Was Thursday Martino Fine Books 30/04/2011 1614270120 / 9781614270126 Paperback New Ships in 10-14 Day - Subject to Availability 2011 Reprint of 1908 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare" is a novel by G. K. Chesterton, first published in 1908. The book is sometimes 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. 9781614270126 0.00 Price:
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G.K. ChestertonThe Man Who Was Thursday Cosimo Classics 15/10/2007 1602068445 / 9781602068445 Paperback New Ships in 10-14 Day - Subject to Availability "A powerful picture of the loneliness and bewilderment which each of us encounters in his single-handed struggle with the universe." --C. S. Lewis. 9781602068445 0.00 Price:
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G. K. ChestertonThe Man Who Was Thursday Createspace 29/11/2009 1449926029 / 9781449926021 Paperback New Ships in 10-14 Day - Subject to Availability "A powerful picture of the loneliness and bewilderment which each of us encounters in his single-handed struggle with the universe." --C. S. Lewis. 9781449926021 0.00 Price:
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G. K. ChestertonThe Man Who Was Thursday Serenity Publishers, LLC 14/01/2009 1604506202 / 9781604506204 Elibron Classics Edition Paperback New Ships in 10-14 Day - Subject to Availability A WILD AND PROFOUNDLY MOVING TALE *** It is very difficult to classify THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY. It is possible to say that it is a gripping adventure story of murderous criminals and brilliant policemen; but it was to be expected that the author of the Father Brown stories should tell a detective story like no-one else. On this level, therefore, THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY succeeds superbly; if nothing else, it is a magnificent tour-de-force of suspense-writing. 9781604506204 0.00 Price:
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A group of anarchists dedicated to overthrowing the world order are under surveillance by Scotland Yard and are about to be infiltrated, in this fast-moving, funny, surreal detective story with a highly anarchic take on anarchy Gabriel Syme is dispatched by Scotland Yard on a secret mission to infiltrate the Central Anarchist Council—an organization plotting to bring down the existing social order. The seven members of the group are named after days of the week, with the mysterious Sunday, who calls himself "the Sabbath and the peace of God," as their leader and mastermind. Having successfully infiltrated their ranks, Syme himself becomes known as "Thursday." But he soon finds himself in a surreal waking nightmare, in which the lines between freedom and order, fact and fiction, become irrevocably blurred. Written in 1908, and drawing heavily on contemporary fears of anarchist conspiracies and bomb plots, this tale of panic and paranoia remains uncannily relevant. It is a fascinating mystery, a spellbinding allegory, and an entirely chilling classic of crime fiction. 9781843549055 0.00 Price:
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G. K. ChestertonThe Poet and the Lunatics December 16 Dover Publications 2010 0486478432 / 9780486478432 Paperback New Ships in 10-14 Day After Release date An eccentric poet acts as spiritual detective in these eight stories by the creator of the popular Father Brown mysteries. Gabriel Gale employs his extraordinary gifts of empathy to solve and prevent crimes perpetrated by madmen. His philosophical police work forms a captivating basis for Chesterton's characteristic paradoxes and soaring flights of rhetoric. 9780486478432 0.00 Price:
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G. K. ChestertonTremendous Trifles Echo Library 22/08/2006 1406803197 / 9781406803198 Paperback New Ships in 10-14 Day - Subject to Availability Chesterton's 39 short essays are the result, he says, of "sitting still and letting marvels and adventures settle on him like flies." Actually, he does move around ? Germany, France, and on foot in England when he tires of waiting for a train. Full of both good sense and nonsense, his commentaries remain an absolute delight. 9781406803198 0.00 Price:
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