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Reflections on life that are hilarious, touching, and sometimes even terrifying. Trifles? No. Chesterton goes deep even when he seems to have a light touch. Laugh at "What I Found in My Pocket" and "On Lying in Bed", meditate on "A Piece of Chalk" and warm up to "The Dragons Grandmother" and shiver at "The Diabolist."

The Man Who Knew Too Much is a book of detective stories by English writer G. K. Chesterton, published in 1922 by Cassell and Company in the United Kingdom, and Harper Brothers in the United States. The book contains eight connected short stories about "The Man Who Knew Too Much", and additional unconnected stories featuring separate heroes/detectives. The United States edition contained one of these additional stories: "The Trees of Pride", while the United Kingdom edition contained "Trees of Pride" and three more, shorter stories: "The Garden of Smoke", "The Five of Swords" and "The Tower of Treason". Horne Fisher, "The Man Who Knew Too Much", is the main protagonist of the first eight stories. In the final story, "The Vengeance of the Statue", Fisher notes: "The Prime Minister is my fathers friend. The Foreign Minister married my sister. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is my first cousin." Because of these intimate relationships with the leading political figures in the land, Fisher knows too much about the private politics behind the public politics of the day. This knowledge is a burden to him in the eight stories, because he is able to uncover the injustices and corruptions of the murders in each story, but in most cases the real killer gets away with the killing because to bring him openly to justice would create a greater chaos: starting a war, reinciting Irish rebellions or removing public faith in the government.

Here you will find the complete Father Brown stories in the chronological order of their original publication.- The Innocence of Father Brown- The Wisdom of Father Brown- The Donnington Affair- The Incredulity of Father Brown- The Secret of Father Brown- The Scandal of Father Brown- The Mask of Midas

Here you will find the complete Father Brown stories in the chronological order of their original publication.- The Innocence of Father Brown- The Wisdom of Father Brown- The Donnington Affair- The Incredulity of Father Brown- The Secret of Father Brown- The Scandal of Father Brown- The Mask of Midas

Here you will find the complete Father Brown stories in the chronological order of their original publication.- The Innocence of Father Brown- The Wisdom of Father Brown- The Donnington Affair- The Incredulity of Father Brown- The Secret of Father Brown- The Scandal of Father Brown- The Mask of Midas

Here you will find the complete Father Brown stories in the chronological order of their original publication.- The Innocence of Father Brown- The Wisdom of Father Brown- The Donnington Affair- The Incredulity of Father Brown- The Secret of Father Brown- The Scandal of Father Brown- The Mask of Midas

G.K. Chestertons collected essays on subjects ranging from detective stories and penny dreadfuls to heraldry and patriotism. The essays originally appeared in "The Speaker" but were edited and revise

El padre Brown es un sacerdote enjuto, miope, de facciones redondas y apariencia normal, pero es cpapaz de resolber lo má intrincados casos policíacos. Para ello utiliza la sutil experiencia psicológica, la deduccion, la introspeccion, su aparente ingenuidad y la fe.Con las aventuras del padre Brown, Chestertos renovo la novela policiaca. Y a este respecto, Jose Luis Borges escribio: "Cada una de ellas presenta un misterio, propone explicaciones de tipo demoniaco o magico y las reemplaza, al fin, con otras de este mundo. La maestria no agota la virtud de estas breves piezas".

Las dos grandes obsesiones de Chesterton, el arte y la religión, se reúnen en esta colección de ensayos que nacieron como reseñas literarias y acabaron convirtiéndose en un recorrido por lo bueno y lo superior. Asi, los personajes glosados por Chesterton en este volumen, se dividen en dos categorias, los "temperamentos artisticos" (Blake, Lord Byron, Charlotte Bronte, William Morris, Robert Louis Stevenson) y los "temperamentos religiosos" (Francisco de Asis, Savonarola y Lev Tolstoi). Cada uno de estos retratos nos permite descubrir a un Chesterton capaz de aunar, de un modo magistral, biografia y ensayo."Chesterton es uno de los primeros escritores de nuestro tiempo." Jorge Luis Borges"Chesterton merece una constante declaracion de lealtad por nuestra parte." T.S. Elliot

El hombre que fue Jueves hechiza e intriga, divierte y sorprende. Todo un clásico en ei que Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) mezcla el bien y el mal, los perseguidores y ios perseguidos, la fidelidad y la traicion, para alcanzar una de las cumbres de la literatura britanica del siglo XX.

Can you trust yourself when you don't know who you are? Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe's Central Anarchist Council and infiltrate their deadly mission, even managing to have himself voted to the position of 'Thursday'. In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist. Sworn to do his duty, when Syme discovers another undercover policeman on the Council, however, he starts to question his role in their operations. And as a desperate chase across Europe begins, his confusion grows, as well as his confidence in his ability to outwit his enemies. But he has still to face the greatest terror that the Council has - its leader: a man named Sunday, whose true nature is worse than Syme could ever have imagined. …

En 1877 toda la obra de Stevenson se limitaba a unos pocos artículos, hasta que en un viaje a Francia conoció a Fanny van der Grift, que poco después se convertiría en su esposa. Fue a partir de este encuentro cuando comienza a escribir, entre 1877 y 1880, sus primeros relatos, que envia al London Magazine, al Cornhill Magazine y al Temple Bar, donde aparecen por entregas. En 1878 Stevenson publica El Club de los suicidas y El diamante del raja en The London Magazine, bajo el titulo Latter-Day Arabian Nights. Posteriormente retoca en profundidad estos dos cuentos y los reune junto con otros relatos en un volumen titulado Las nuevas noches arabes (1882) Avatares nº 49 del que se han extraido para la presente edicion. Su caracter fragmentario no impide que la obra pueda leerse como una novela, pues las historias se entrelazan, al estilo de Las mil y una noches, bajo un denominador comun: la aventura de la supervivencia en un medio hostil. El hilo conductor de estas historias es el principe Florizel, personaje posiblemente inspirado en un hijo de Maria Teresa y Jose II de Bohemia. El Club de los suicidas nos descubre la existencia de un excentrico club clandestino destinado a facilitar el paso a la otra vida a sus socios, y El diamante del raja relata el robo y las posteriores peripecias de una magnifica joya, un diamante precedido de una nefasta historia de traiciones y crimenes.