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Gabriel Syme, el protagonista de El hombre que fue Jueves es un poeta, empleado de Scotland Yard, que descubre una gran conspiración contra la civilización encabezada por un grupo anarquista cuyos mienbros usan como nombres claves los dias de la semana. A fin de evitar sus acciones terroristas, Syme se une a ellos como Jueves y trata de averiguar la verdadera identidad de su perverso lider Domingo.

Chesterton declares that it is fashionable to boast that one cannot understand Browning but he reveals in this fascinating literary biography how Browning 'combines the greatest brain with the simplest temperament'. This is a multi-faceted biography and critique of Browning's work. Chesterton takes us from his early life to his early poems and shows us how his life impacted on his work to produce a biography of great depth and sensitivity. G K Chesterton has been described as one of the most unjustly neglected writers of our time. Born in 1874, he became a journalist and later began writing books and pamphlets. His work includes novels, literary and social criticism, political papers and spiritual essays in a style characterised by enormous wit, paradox, humility and wonder. He converted to Catholicism in 1922 and he explores the nature of spirituality in many of his books and essays, including the mighty Orthodoxy. Chesterton is one of the few authors who are genuinely timeless and whose work has as much relevance today as when it was written.

The book traces in some detail Shaw's work as a critic (puritanical opposition to Shakespeare) and as a dramatist. G K Chesterton was ideally placed to write this critical biography of the literary works and political views of George Bernard Shaw. He was a personal friend and yet an ardent opponent of Shaw's progressive socialism. The lightness of tone and the humour of his other works are equally present in his examination of Shaw. The book presents a perceptive and far from dated critique of Shaw's philosophy and politics and through them the emerging progressive orthodoxy of the 20 century. The book represents an excellent introduction to Shaw's work and the spirit of the age in which they were created.

In his autobiography Chesterton describes his happy childhood, the intellectual 'doubts and morbidities" of his youth and his search for a true vocation. He includes many anecdotes about his literary friends, Henry James, George Bernard Shaw, and H G Wells. But it is his quest for religious conviction and his conversion to Catholicism that is central to his story which he tells with great modesty, gentleness and intelligence. G K Chesterton has been described as one of the most unjustly neglected writers of our time. Born in 1874, he became a journalist and later began writing books and phamphlets. His work includes novels, literary and social criticism, political papers and spiritual essays in a style characterized by enormous wit, paradox, humility and wonder. He converted to Catholicism in 1922 and he explores the nature of spirituality in many of his books and essays, including the mighty Orthodoxy. Chesterton is one of the few authors whose work is genuinely timeless and has as much relevance today as when it was written.

Inspirado en un amigo del autor, el personaje del padre Brown ­el sacerdote que tras su aspecto anodino, su inseparable paraguas y sus eternos paquetes de papel de estraza, oculta un insólito conocim

Father Brown, an unassuming and shabbily dressed priest, possesses an incredible ability to solve crimes and murders. Here he reveals the secret of his success. He discovers the culprit by imagining himself to be inside the mind of the criminal. This fourth collection of Father Brown stories contains the magnificent ''The Chief Mourner of Marne''- a fascinating story with unexpected twists - about a duel and a case of mistaken identity.

In this fifth and final set of Father Brown mysteries G K Chesterton's short, shabby priest continues, in his humorous, effortless but powerfully effective way to solve a wide range of high crimes an

Gabriel Syme, a poet and member of the Philosophical Policemen, must combat the Supreme Council of Seven, a group of anarchists each of whom is named for a day of the week.

G.K. Chesterton''s quiet and unassuming little priest has long since joined the pantheon of great literary detectives. Combining the shrewdness of Miss Marple, the insight of Sherlock Holmes and the punctiliousness of Hercule Poirot with the deep and intuitive knowledge of the dark secrets of human nature gained in the confessional, Father Brown is perhaps better equipped than any of them to uncover the startling truth whenever murder, mayhem and mystery stalk society.

Chesterton, con su acostumbrada agudeza, nos pone de nuevo ante el misterio de la vida y ante el desafío de lo real. ¿Por qué nos habla en esta ocasión de la incredulidad? La «incredulidad» a la que

Para Jorge Luis Borges, que no dejó nunca de leerlo y admirarlo, Chesterton fue un incomparable inventor de cuentos fantásticos: «Pienso que Chesterton es uno de los primeros escritores de nuestro ti

Otro de los grandes exitos de Chesterton. Titanes de la modernidad y el progreso caen demolidos por la agudeza y claridad del pensamiento del autor, en esta brillante antologia de articulos y ensayos breves. Otros temas reciben un curioso y siempre lucido tratamiento: la frivolidad, la risa, el vandalismo, reveladores estudios literarios como los dedicados a Tolstoi o a Dickens, y muchos otros, integran este muestrario que abarca casi todos los campos de la cultura, y los bana con una risuena dosis de sentido comun.

«Me dirijo al hombre de la calle, escéptico pero también comprensivo, y mi única esperanza, bastante vaga por cierto, es que si abordo la biografía de este gran salto por el lado llamativo y popular