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Aesop's Fables by Aesop ; G. K. Chesterton (Introduction by);
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Dover Children's Classics Ser.
Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing, and don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs These simple allegories -- abounding in paradoxes, ambiguities, and ironies -- embody great truths. Attributed to a legendary storyteller of ancient Greece, they speak to readers and listeners of all ages and cultur ...Show more
Charles Dickens by G. K. Chesterton
$16.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Literary Lives
"There is no better critic of Dickens living than Mr Chesterton" - T S Eliot. "[Chesterton is] perhaps Dickens' best critic" - Peter Ackroyd. "Readers seeking a short introduction to the Inimitable should try G K Chesterton's "Dickens"" - John Carey.Chesterton is so good on Dickens because his wit is as ...Show more
Complete Father Brown Stories by G. K. CHESTERTON
$6.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That first collection of stories established G.K. Chesterton's kindly cleric in ...Show more
Orthodoxy - The Beloved Christian Masterpiece by G. K. Chesterton
$26.99 AUD
Category: Mind, Body, Spirit | Series: Essential Wisdom Library
Part spiritual autobiography, part apologetics, Orthodoxy is G.K. Chesterton's account of his own journey to faith. Chesterton didn't set out to write a defense of Christian thought, instead he hoped to recount how he personally came to faith. However, in doing so, he penned one of the great classics of ...Show more
The Complete Father Brown Stories by G.K. Chesterton
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics
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 Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
$9.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
The Innocence of Father Brown is the first collection of stories starring Father Brown, a short, stumpy Catholic priest with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, and uncanny insight into human evil. Father Brown may be a kindly cleric, but his bumbling nature disguises a sharp detective mind to rival ...Show more
The Man Who Was Thursday: Green Popular Penguins by G.K. Chesterton
$9.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins Ser.
G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately, a s ...Show more
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