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Horne Fisher is extremely well connected. The plans of prime ministers, foreign ambassadors, and chancellors are matters of table conversation - usually because these people are dining with him. And when a man so well connected is also a brilliant detective, all sinister motives and plots systematically unfold. Whether it is a case of police corruption, or a war with Sweden, Horne Fisher can always solve it. But Horne Fisher is also a philosopher, and not a policeman, and the murderer is seldom punished.

The tale of King Alfred, the Christian king who in 878AD battled a Viking invasion that had conquered the rest of England and burnt some cakes. He then became the last holdout of resistance against the invaders and forced the conversion of the Danish king Guthrum to Christianity after the battle of Ethandun.

Orthodoxy, first published 1908, is Chesterton's spiritual autobiography. Subtitled, 'The romance of faith', Chesterton declares that people need a life of 'practical romance; the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.'

Selección de cuentos cortos clásicos de la literatura universal pensada para todo público.

"Manalive" (1912) is a book by G. K. Chesterton detailing a popular theme both in his own philosophy, and in Christianity, of the "holy fool", such as in Dostoevsky's "The Idiot" and Cervantes' "Don Quixote".

Una antologia policial unica. Alrededor de tres de los mas grandes y famosos detectives de la novela policial se ha hecho esta antologia que presenta historias protagonizadas por Sherlock Holmes, un genio de la deduccion y precursor de la narracion policial moderna; por Hercules Poirot, la satirica creacion de Agatha Christie y el Padre Brown, el curita que aplica los dogmas religiosos a la solucion de crimenes.

Aristide Valentin, the chief of the Paris police, arrives from Holland by boat at the English port of Harwich. He is pursuing an infamous thief and con man named Flambeau, to whom Parisian reporters attribute numerous mysterious and unsolved crimes committed in the French capital.

One of the early 20th century’s mystery writing masters, G.K. Chesterton, spins a tale set on the wild shores of Cornwall, England. Here the locals fear a grove of trees, the “peacock trees,” believed to spread disease and eat people. Squire Vane dismisses such talk as mere superstition. When three guests arrive, the discussion about the trees enrages the Squire who vows to show them how foolish this myth is by spending a night in the grove. The next day, he’s nowhere to be found. And then begins the effort to solve this latest mystery, made more difficult by the characters’ pride.

Der gewitzte Pater Brown hat ein gefährliches Hobby: Er löst mysteriöse Kriminalfälle durch Intuition und Einfühlungsvermögen. Vor allem sein hellsichtiger Blick auf die Seelenzustände der Täter lässt den gewitzten katholischen Priester bei seinen Ermittlungen ein ums andere Mal die verzwicktesten Fälle lösen.

"Most Eugenists are Euphemists. I mean merely that short words startle them, while long words soothe them. And they are utterly incapable of translating the one into the other, however obviously they mean the same thing. Say to them 'The persuasive and even coercive powers of the citizen should enable him to make sure that the burden of longevity in the previous generation does not become disproportionate and intolerable, especially to the females.'"

Father Brown bringt ein kostbares silbernes Kreuz nach London, um die wertvolle Reliquie einigen ausländischen Priestern zu zeigen. Ihm auf der Spur ist der französische Meisterdieb Hercule Flambeau, um ihm das Kleinod abzujagen. In der Verkleidung eines Geistlichen gewinnt er das Vertrauen des leutseligen Priesters und lockt ihn in einen verlassenen Park.

The Club of Queer Trades revolves around the members of a London club who must invent their own peculiar and unique professions, and make a living from them. These six tales send up the British class system, the state of London in the Victoria era, the ironies of the law, and more.

Vier spannende Kriminalhörspiele mit Pater Brown - dem bescheidenen englischen Dorfpfarrer, der für sein Leben gern Detektiv spielt.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton è stato uno scrittore e giornalista inglese famoso per i suoi racconti ironici, a volte paradossali, ma sempre ricchi di morale e buoni sentimenti. Famoso per le fortunate serie di Padre Brown, in questo libro, pubblicato nel 1905, ci propone sette racconti in cui due amici, lo scrittore stesso e un ex-giudice (forse un po' pazzo) si trovano coinvolti in avventure paradossali.Cornice musicale: The Sycamore di Scott Joplin.

Orthodoxy has become a classic of Christian apologetics. In the book's preface Chesterton states the purpose is to "attempt an explanation, not of whether the Christian faith can be believed, but of how he personally has come to believe it." In it, Chesterton presents an original view of the Christian religion. He sees it as the answer to natural human needs, the "answer to a riddle" in his own words, and not simply as an arbitrary truth received from somewhere outside the boundaries of human experience.

LE PREMIER GRAND MAÎTRE, APRÈS CONAN DOYLE, DU ROMAN POLICIER MODERNE. Qui prêterait attention au Père Brown, ce petit prêtre catholique, falot et timide ? Sa face ronde exprime une telle naïveté qu'il passerait presque pour un idiot. Cet être à l'apparence insignifiante est pourtant doté d'un cerveau exceptionnel, capable de dénouer les énigmes les plus embrouillées. Il n'a pas recours à des méthodes d'investigation classiques. Il fait appel à des raisonnements tout à fait personnels, fondés sur sa profonde connaissance de la nature humaine.

Three trees, known as the Peacock trees, are blamed by the peasants for the fever that has killed many. Squire Vane scoffs at this legend as superstition. To prove them wrong, once and for all, he takes a bet to spend the night in the trees. In the morning he has vanished. Is he dead, and if so who has killed him? The poet? The lawyer? The woodsman? The trees?

Drei mächtige Männer kommen zusammen und planen eine Verschwörung. Drei andere Männer wünschen sich nichts mehr, als die Vernichtung ihrer Kontrahenten. Eine Konfrontation scheint unvermeidlich. Doch wer hätte dabei mit solcher Brutalität gerechnet?

Eine Reise führt Pater Brown ins Fürstentum Heiligenwaldstein im Land der Märchen - Deutschland. Was er dort erlebt, ist jedoch wenig Märchenhaft...

Den Urlaub in Amerika hatte sich Pater Brown eigentlich etwas anders vorgestellt: Kaum mit dem Schiff angekommen bittet man ihn, sich an die Fersen eines mysteriösen Erpressers zu heften...