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1) Orthodoxy
Author
Language
English
Description
'Orthodoxy' describes Chesterton's discovery of faith – a journey which is compared to an English adventurer who gets lost and unknowingly, discovers England all over again. Here he is doubly blessed, enjoying both the excitement of exploration, and the security of being home. Again, modernist blind spots are exposed, as the reader is invited into 'the thrilling romance of Orthodoxy...there was never anything so perilous or so exciting.'
'Heretics'
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Series
Language
English
Description
Maisie Ward's biography of Gilbert Keith Chesterton has long been a cornerstone in Chesterton studies, as well as in the publishing house she and her husband, Frank Sheed, founded in 1926. Originally published in 1943, this book combines Ward's unique perspective as the author's friend and publisher with an examination of his personal correspondence and interviews with his closest friends and family. Here are Chesterton's childhood and school days,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The only problems with Chesterton's essays is that there are too many of them - over five thousand! For many G. K. C. readers it is not even possible to know where to start or how to begin to approach them. So three of the world's leading authorities on Chesterton - Dale Ahlquist, Aidan Mackey, and Joseph Pearce - have selected the "best" Chesterton essays, a collection that will be appreciated by both the newcomer and the seasoned student of this...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Heaven help the murderer who crosses paths with G.K. Chesterton's cassocked crime-solver, Father Brown. Despite his absentminded air, the kindly priest always manages to confound criminals with his inescapable logic and keen understanding of the human condition. Often joined by his friend, thief turned private investigator Hercule Flambeau, Father Brown unravels devious schemes in 1920s England.
13) Irish tenure
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Sleuth Roger Knight, a professor at Notre Dame University, investigates the death of a woman academic who was vying with another academic for a tenured post. Lots of detail on academic intrigues.
16) Permanent Things
Author
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
How does one explain the desolation of a world which, though richly endowed with material comforts, is mentally & spiritually impoverished? The essayists here are united, as were their subjects, by a need to try to answer this question.
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