The Chesterton Review (The Journal of the G. K. Chesterton Society, Vol. XI, No. 4)

G.K., Chesterton

St. Thomas More College

In an article published the day before his death, G.K. Chesterton called the Man Who Was Thursday "a very melodramatic sort of moonshine." Set in a phantasmagoric London where policemen are poets and anarchists camouflage themselves as, well, anarchists, his 1907 novel offers up one highly colored enigma after another. If that weren't enough, the author also throws in an elephant chase and a hot-air-balloon pursuit in which the pursuers suffer from "the persistent refusal of the balloon to follow the roads, and the still more persistent refusal of the cabmen to follow the balloon.".

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Penguin Classic

These are just some of the problems for Father Brown to solve. In his inimitable way, this gentle, eccentric little cleric-detective sets about unravelling the threads of a colourful skein of mysteries. In the course of the investigations Father Brown travels all over the world.

The Secret of Father Brown (Father Brown Mystery)

Literary

Penguin??Books

A collection of the Father Brown stories by G.K. Chesterton.

Father Brown Stories (Penguin Popular Classics)

Father Brown Stories

Immortalized in these famous stories, G. K. Chesterton's endearing amateur sleuth has entertained countless generations of readers. For, as his admirers know, Father Brown's cherubic face and unworldly simplicity, his glasses and his huge umbrella, disguise a quite uncanny understanding of the criminal mind at work. This edition includes seven tales from a number of G. K. Chesterton's "Father Brown" books.

PENGUIN POPULAR CLAS

Ian Ker's selection features the very best of G K Chesterton's classic Father Brown mysteries. With unassuming wit and an inspired understanding of human nature, the clerical detective leads the reader through these delightfully puzzling concoctions of mysterious crimes, dubious suspects and ambiguous clues. The dedicated following the tales still have is testament to their enduring quality.

Father Brown Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Short Stories & Anthologies

The Man Who Was Thursday: Green Popular Penguins

Penguin Group Australia

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an influential English writer of the early 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy, and detective fiction. Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox. " He wrote in an off-hand, whimsical prose studded with startling formulations. He is one of the few Christian thinkers who are equally admired and quoted by both liberal and conservative Christians, and indeed by many non-Christians. And in his own words he cast aspersions on the labels saying, "The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected. " Chesterton wrote many books among which are: All Things Considered (1908), Alarms and Discursions (1910), The Ballad of the White Horse (1911), The Appetite of Tyranny (1915), The Everlasting Man (1925), The Secret of Father Brown (1927) and The Scandal of Father Brown (1935).

Autobiography

Hamish Hamilton

The Collected Poems of G. K. Chesterton (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Collected Poems of G. K. Chesterton Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey Where Wealth accumulates and Men decay. SO rang Of Old the noble voice in vain O'er the Last Peasants wandering on the plain, Doom has reversed the riddle and the rhyme, While sinks the commerce reared upon that crime, The thriftless towns litter with lives undone, TO Whom our madness left no joy but one; And irony that glares like Judgment Day Sees Men accumulate and Wealth decay. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Poetry

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The Chesterton Review (The Journal of the G. K. Chesterton Society, Vol. XI, No. 4)

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

The Secret of Father Brown (Father Brown Mystery)

Father Brown Stories (Penguin Popular Classics)

Father Brown Stories

Father Brown Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)

Father Brown Stories

The Man Who Was Thursday: Green Popular Penguins

Autobiography

The Collected Poems of G. K. Chesterton (Classic Reprint)