Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was one of the wittiest writers in the whole history of English literature. His paradoxes, quite often as valid as paradoxes can be, make his essays unforgettable and leave the reader with a feeling that the world is not such a simple place to understand, after all. Chesterton was...

Publie en 1908, ce roman appartient au genre du thriller metaphysique dont l'intrigue se presente sous la forme d'une allegorie chretienne. Il est considere comme une uvre charniere du XXe siecle, entre les fantaisies absurdes de Lewis Carroll et les cauchemars fantastiques de Kafka et Jorge Luis Borges. Chesterton traite le sujet de la souffrance, du doute, de la quete dangereuse a accomplir avant de pouvoir trouver le salut. Syme, le heros, est ballotte dans son cauchemar comme le spectateur de sa propre vie..."

Se faisant passer pour un autre, un detective infiltre une societe secrete sans se douter que ce qu'il y decouvrira bouleversera sa vie...? Intellectuel aux mille visages, GK Chesterton ne saurait etre reduit au statut d'ecrivain. Il fut aussi journaliste, philosophe, apologiste du christianisme et poete. L'histoire qui suit s'inscrit d'ailleurs dans cette veine, a la fois intelligente, geniale, metaphysique et inclassable. Il ne s'agit donc pas seulement d'une intrigue pleine de suspense, mais aussi et surtout d'une parabole sur les relations complexes entre le Bien et le Mal, un texte qui...

The Ball and the Cross is a novel by G. K. Chesterton. The title refers to a more worldly and rationalist worldview, represented by a ball or sphere, and the cross representing Christianity. The first chapters of the book were serialized from 1905 to 1906 with the completed work published in 1909. The novel's beginning involves debates about rationalism and religion between a Professor Lucifer and a monk named Michael. A part of this section was quoted in Pope John Paul I's Illustrissimi letter to G. K. Chesterton. 2] Much of the rest of the book concerns the dueling, figurative and somewhat...

Characters Stories 1.The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown 2.The Painful Fall of a Great Reputation 3.The Awful Reason of the Vicar's Visit 4.The Singular Speculation of the House-Agent 5.The Noticeable Conduct of Professor Chadd 6.The Eccentric Seclusion of the Old Lady The Club of Queer Trades is a collection of stories by G. K. Chesterton first published in 1905.Each story in the collection is centered on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means (a "queer trade," using the word "queer" in the sense of "peculiar"). To gain admittance one must have invented...

The Flying Inn is a novel first published in 1914 by G. K. Chesterton. It is set in a future England where the Temperance movement has allowed a bizarre form of "Progressive" Islam to dominate the political and social life of the country. Because of this, alcohol sales to the poor are effectively prohibited, while the rich can get alcoholic drinks "under a medical certificate." The plot centres on the adventures of Humphrey Pump and Captain Patrick Dalroy, who roam the country in their cart with a barrel of rum in an attempt to evade Prohibition, exploiting loopholes in the law to temporarily...

Three trees, known as the Peacock trees, are blamed by the peasants for the fever that has killed many. Squire Vane scoffs at this legend as superstition. To prove them wrong, once and for all, he takes a bet to spend the night in the trees. In the morning he has vanished. Is he dead, and if so who has killed him? The poet? The lawyer? The woodsman? The trees?

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, (29 May 1874 - 14 June 1936), better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox."Time magazine has observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories-first carefully turning them inside outIN certain endless uplands, uplands like great flats gone dizzy, slopes that seem to contradict the idea that there is even such a thing as a...

The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) is the first of five collections of mystery stories by G. K. Chesterton starring an unimposing but surprisingly capable Roman Catholic priest. Father Brown's ability to uncover the truth behind the mystery continually surpasses that of the "experts" around him, who are fooled into underestimation by the priest's unimpressive outward appearance and, often, by their own prejudices about Christianity. Combining captivating stories and insightful commentary, The Innocence of Father Brown is a delightful read.

Like much of G. K. Chesterton's fiction, The Ball and the Cross is both witty and profound, cloaking serious religious and philosophical inquiry in sparkling humor and whimsy. Serialized in the British publication The Commonwealth in 1905-06, Chesterton's second novel first appeared in book form in America in 1909, delighting and challenging readers with its heady mixture of fantasy, farce, and theology. The plot of The Ball and the Cross chronicles a hot dispute between two Scotsmen, one a devout but naive Roman Catholic, the other a zealous but naive atheist. Their fanatically held...