G.K. Chesterton

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....

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

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....

The Everlasting Man, written in response to an anti-Christian history of humans penned by H.G. Wells, is considered Chesterton’s masterpiece....

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....

The book acts as a guide which explains how Christianity is the best choice for all human beings, not because it's outside of our world and an independent truth....

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....

The Definitive Detective Collection brings together the finest deductive minds in fiction. Join Edgar Allan Poe's Auguste Dupin as he invents the detective genre in the mid-1800s, and follow the logical clues to the most famous detective ever committed to paper, Sherlock Holmes, in Victorian London.

Das hätte sich Pater Brown nun wirklich nicht träumen lassen! Ein unerwarteter Anruf beschert ihm die wohl bisher ungewöhnlichste Anstellung seiner bisherigen Laufbahn. Seine neue Gemeinde ist die Besatzung einer Ölplattform, weit draußen in den Weiten der Nordsee. Von Anfang an steht seine ...

The G.K. Chesterton Faith Collection brings together six of Chesterton's major works on faith and religion, including his seminal early work on moral theology, Heretics, all the way to his late-life writings on Saint Thomas Aquinas.

In The Everlasting Man, G. K. Chesterton paints the full panorama of human history in light of Christian tradition. Highly influential in C. S. Lewis' conversion from atheism to Christianity, this book continues to inspire new generations of listeners....

During the first three decades of the 20th century, eugenics, the scientific control of human breeding, was a popular cause....

In The Napoleon of Notting Hill, his first novel, Chesterton creates a witty satire of staid government, set in a London of the future....

This is a top-quality audiobook of G. K. Chesterton's biography of St. Thomas Aquinas....

The Complete G.K. Chesterton Collection brings together all of Chesterton's major works...

With his black hat, huge umbrella, unworldly simplicity and 'beaming but breathless geniality', Father Brown is one of fiction's best-loved amateur detectives. Short and tatty, but with the wisdom and insight to unravel the most wayward of criminal minds, he has entertained generations....

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

Every story of Chesterton's unassuming little priest detective, from the first four published collections: The Innocence of Father Brown (1911), The Wisdom of Father Brown (1914), The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926), and The Secret of Father Brown (1927)....

Orthodoxy (1908) is a book by G. K. Chesterton that has become a classic of Christian apologetic. Chesterton considered this book a companion to his other...

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