G.K. Chesterton

The Great Detective Library: 101 Legendary Detective Novels & Stories is a captivating anthology that brings together the finest works from the world's most renowned sleuths. Featuring iconic characters such as Hercule Poirot, Father Brown, Nero Wolfe, Sherlock Holmes, Inspector Alan Grant,...

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was a British writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary critic. Chesterton wrote around 80 books, several hundred poems, some 200 short stories, several plays, plus 4,000 essays and newspaper columns....

In each story collected here, the star detective, Horne Fisher, deals with another strange mystery....

Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk dumpling, Father Brown makes for an improbable super-sleuth. But his innocence is the...

Heiligabend, 24. Dezember 1889: In der Baker Street 221B ist es ruhig und festlich. Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson und Mrs. Hudson sitzen beisammen, genießen den Apfelstrudel der Haushälterin und lassen das vergangene Abenteuer Revue passieren.

Chesterton's allegorical masterpiece is a surreal, psychologically thrilling novel that centres on anarchists in turn of the century London who call themselves by the names of days of the week....

Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton's lovable little Norfolk priest, has an uncanny knack of unraveling mysteries that leave lesser mortals floundering....

Classic Poems for Boys comprises a delightfully varied set of over 20 poems for 5- to 10-year olds....

Saint Francis of Assisi is one of the most influential men in the whole of human history....

Chesterton portrays Father Brown as a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, and an uncanny...

In 1910, when the industrialists and intelligentsia both promised only “progress,” G. K.

G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown is perhaps the most lovable amateur detective ever created....

Orthodoxy is Chesterton's great theological work, which amounts to an apology for the Christian faith heretofore unequalled, excepting perhaps by C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity....

In this 1905 collection of essays, G. K. Chesterton contests the growing intolerance for religious thinking and theological debate. He calls out friends and contemporaries - George Bernard Shaw, Rudyard Kipling, and H. G. Wells, among others....

Chesterton's compilation of essays in Heretics discusses the difference in Orthodoxy and Heretics, rational vs. irrational, and denial vs. affirmation. He questions the existence of man....

The story begins when two poets meet. Gabriel Syme is a poet of law. Lucian Gregory is a poetic anarchist. As the poets protest their respective philosophies, they strike a challenge....

These four stories test Father Brown in many ways, creating headaches a plenty. However, Father Brown is nothing if not redoubtable....

Dubbed the "Dumb Ox" by his classmates for his shyness, Saint Thomas Aquinas proved to be possessed of the rarest brilliance, justifying the faith of his teacher....

Three BBC Radio performances of works by the great G. K. Chesterton....

This is a new edition of the first collection of G. K. Chesterton's masterful mysteries, The Innocence of Father Brown. Contains 12 thrilling tales, including "The Blue Cross", "The Invisible Man", and "The Sins of Prince Saradine"....