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The Everyman Chesterton by G. K. Chesterton
Category: Fiction
Included here are some of the well-loved Father Brown detective stories, surely among the best in the genre, and a range of poetry, serious and light-hearted - Chesterton wrote some of the best nonsense and satirical verse in the language. The main bias of the selection, however, will be towards his non ...Show more
The Incredulity Of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton
Category: Classic
This is the third volume of stories featuring the cunning clerical sleuth Father Brown. Ahead of a new series of the popular BBC adaptation starring Mark Williams, all five of Chesterton's original Father Brown books have been republished with charming and collectible Penguin covers. 'That sort of thing ...Show more
The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton
Category: Classic
This is the first volume of Chesterton's brilliant, ingenious Father Brown stories. Ahead of a new series of the popular BBC adaptation starring Mark Williams, all five of the original Father Brown books have been republished with charming and collectible Penguin covers. With his round face, pipe and um ...Show more
The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
Category: Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
The Innocence of Father Brown is the first collection of stories starring Father Brown, a short, stumpy Catholic priest with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, and uncanny insight into human evil. Father Brown may be a kindly cleric, but his bumbling nature disguises a sharp detective mind to rival ...Show more
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
Category: Classic | Series: The\Penguin English Library
'"A man's brain is a bomb," he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence. "My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand! It must expand! A man's brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe"'. In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel ...Show more
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
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 ...Show more
The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
Category: Fiction
A group of anarchists dedicated to overthrowing the world order are under surveillance by Scotland Yard, and Detective Gabriel Syme must infiltrate their ranks. Dreamlike, prophetic, and funny, "The Man Who Was Thursday" is a fast-moving and surreal boys' own detective story, and a highly anarchic take ...Show more
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
Category: Classics
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton '"A man's brain is a bomb," he cried out, loosening suddenly his strange passion and striking his own skull with violence. "My brain feels like a bomb, night and day. It must expand It must expand A man's brain must expa ...Show more
The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
Category: Fiction | Series: Headline Review Classics Ser.
A group of anarchists are under surveillance by Scotland Yard in Chesterton's hugely popular metaphysical thriller. The Supreme Anarchists Council is dedicated to overthrowing the world order. To keep their identities a secret, each of them has been named a day of the week. Gabriel Syme, an eccentric po ...Show more
The Man Who Was Thursday - A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton
Category: Crime and Thrillers
G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday is a thrilling novel of deception, subterfuge, double-crossing and secret identities, and this "Penguin Classics" edition is edited with an introduction by Matthew Beaumont. The Central Anarchist Council is a secret society sworn to destroy the world. The coun ...Show more
The Man Who Was Thursday: Green Popular Penguins by G.K. Chesterton
Category: Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins Ser.
G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately, a s ...Show more
The Man Who Was Thursday (Heathen Edition) - A Nightmare by G. K. Chesterton
Category: Fiction
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English journalist, poet, biographer, historian, debater, radio personality, and novelist who wrote more than 100 books on a wide variety of subjects. He is best known for his beloved Father Brown series of detective stories and The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nig ...Show more