Chesterton gives us Francis in his world-the riotously colorful world of the High Middle Ages, a world with more pageantry and romance than we have seen before or since. Here is the Francis who tri…
Contrary to first impressions, Father Brown is not senile, nor easily rattled. In fact, this village priest wanders into challenges that pale in comparison to the things he has heard through the sc…
This book is set between the two world wars in England. This work of Chesterton's addresses the infatuation the gentry and pseudo intellectual class have with a modern "prophet" of Islam. He travel…
A most important bookby the author giving his remarably perceptive analysis on social and moral issues, more relevant today even in his own time. In his light and humorous stlke, yet deadly seriosu…
Beginning with an insightful study on the nature of man, Chesterton argues that the cebtral character in history is Jesus Christ, the everlasting Man. No other explanation of the world fits the evi…
G.K. Chesterton, the "Prince of Paradox," is at his witty best in this collection of twenty essays and articles from the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on "heretics" - those who pride them…
Beginning with an insightful study on the nature of man, Chesterton argues that the cebtral character in history is Jesus Christ, the everlasting Man. No other explanation of the world fits the evi…
Here, together in a single volume, are the two biographies that many critics consider to be Chesterton's best and the best short portraits ever written of these two great saints. St. Francis of Ass…
G.K. Chesterton put his philosophy of Christianity to paper in 1908, responding to the popularity of humanism with "a set of mental pictures" that stated his argument. Read by Simon Vance, those me…
Father Brown, one of the most quirkily genial and lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction, first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911. That first collect…