Books by G. K. Chesterton

Father Brown has been a daytime TV staple for almost a decade, with the beloved BBC crime drama hitting the milestone of 100 episodes earlier this year.

Originally published in 1911, The Innocence of Father Brown is the first of five official collections of short stories focused on the crime-solving Roman Catholic.He is an endearing character often compared to another famous detective, Sherlock Holmes.Father Brown is a devout Roman Catholic priest who has a penchant for detective work. He first appears in the short story, "The Blue Cross," which was previously published in 1910 in the Saturday Evening Post. Father Brown stumbles across unusual cases that require his distinct reasoning and deduction skills. He's often described as a short man with a stocky figure who can see into the heart of evil. His first outing, The Innocence of Father Brown, features 12 stories including "The Hammer of God," "The Invisible Man" and "The Sins of Prince Saradine." The Innocence of Father Brown is the inaugural edition of G.K. Chesterton's delightful detective series. It consists of many famous cases and characters including frequent collaborator, Hercule Flambeau. This book is a great introduction to these delightful stories that are fueled by heart and humanity.Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

A police officer infiltrates an underground anarchist group and earns the name Thursday, becoming a vital part of an assassination plot that has drastic consequences. Unbeknownst to him, the officer is being pulled into a much bigger scheme. Gabriel Syme is a part of Scotland Yard's secret police task force. He attends a party where he meets Lucian Gregory, a poet who's sympathetic to the anarchist cause. Gregory takes Syme to the meeting of an anarchy council where he's introduced to men with similar beliefs. To protect their identities, they're each given code names inspired by a day of the week. Syme becomes Thursday and works as an active participant in an assassination plot. The group's plan takes a surprising turn when a secret is uncovered, exposing not only Syme, but a greater deception. The Man Who Was Thursday is a clever thriller full of twists and shocking turns. Chesterton's storytelling keeps the reader of their toes, making for an engaged and exciting experience. The story provides commentary of revolutionary politics, identity and the innate desire for community.With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Man Who Was Thursday is both modern and readable.

Sous le crépuscule des faubourgs de l'est londonien, deux poètes se disputent sur la nature de leur art. Lucien Gregory est anarchiste ; Gabriel Syme est amoureux de l'ordre. Afin de prouver le sérieux de ses convictions, Grégory invite Syme dans les souterrains d'un bar malfamé pour assister à l'élection d'une société secrète anarchiste. Elle comporte sept membres. Chacun porte le nom d'un jour de la semaine. Gregory s'apprête à devenir Jeudi.Mais alors que l'élection est sur le point de commencer, Syme, qui n'est autre qu'un détective secret pour Scotland Yard, prépare ce pourquoi il travaille depuis des années : infiltrer l'organisation et livrer à la justice les architectes du chaos. Il deviendra Jeudi à la place de Gregory.Ce thriller métaphysique est une œuvre charnière du XXe siècle, de la trempe de Jorge Luis Borges, de Lewis Carroll et de Kafka. Plus qu’un roman policier, il s’agit d’un roman d’aventures où la philosophie rencontre la religion.G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) est un écrivain anglais prolifique dans tous les domaines. Il est surtout connu pour ses œuvres d'apologétique chrétienne tels que « Orthodoxie » ou bien « L'Homme éternel » qui parvinrent à convertir l’écrivain C. S. Lewis, l’auteur du « Monde de Narnia », au christianisme. Chesterton se convertit lui-même au catholicisme en 1922. Il est l’auteur de romans policiers et thrillers tels que « Le père Brown » ou « Le Nommé Jeudi ». Jorge Luis Borges le revendique comme l'un de ses principaux maîtres.

Un prete di paese che risolve delitti e misteri? Vi ricorda qualcuno? Scommetto che state pensando proprio a lui, a padre Brown, il protagonista di questa raccolta di storie brevi. Dotato di un fiuto per il crimine eccezionale, questo parroco di provincia girerà tutta Europa — la sua Inghilterra, Francia, Italia, Germania — per risolvere i casi più stralunati, i crimini più bizzarri che la mente umana possa partorire.Sempre in compagnia del suo fido compagno Hercule Flambeau, Padre Brown indirizzerà le indagini su binari non ordinari, affronterà con maestria situazioni che spaziano dal filosofico al grottesco, dallo spirituale al surreale.Vedendo gli ottimi risultati ottenuti la domanda sorge però spontanea: che abbia sbagliato carriera?Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) è stato uno scrittore britannico. Autore estremamente prolifico, scrisse più di cento opere tra romanzi, poesie e opere teatrali. Dotato di un grande senso dell’umorismo, i suoi libri trattano spesso temi quali il paradosso e l’assurdo.

Non siamo più nei primi del novecento... questa è la Londra del futuro e questi i mitici anni Ottanta! Ma scordatevi il punk, la musica disco e i walkman — e scordatevi anche la famiglia reale, se per questo. Qui il sovrano è scelto tramite sorteggio, non ci sono linee di sangue che tengano. E guarda caso ora il Re dovrebbe essere un tizio chiamato Auberon Quin, un giovanotto con un senso dell’umorismo particolare. Si pensi che ha diviso i quartieri Londra in tanti piccoli feudi, delle piccole nazioni-stato con tanto di signorotti, stemmi, stendardi e corporazioni. Gira voce poi che il Lord di Notting Hill abbia delle mire espansionistiche, chissà che non raduni un esercito...Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) è stato uno scrittore britannico. Autore estremamente prolifico, scrisse più di cento opere tra romanzi, poesie e opere teatrali. Dotato di un grande senso dell’umorismo, i suoi libri trattano spesso temi quali il paradosso e l’assurdo.

Cosa succede se le persone non possono più andare al pub? Semplice, il pub va da loro. O almeno questo è l’obiettivo di Humphrey Pump, un oste inglese obbligato a chiudere la propria taverna, e del suo socio in affari Patrick Delroy, ex capitano irlandese e ora grande apprezzatore dei beni che il suo amico ha da offrire. Insegna del locale sottobraccio, una botte di rum al loro seguito, i due cominciano a girare l’Inghilterra per dare da bere agli assetati. Le loro azioni però non passano sicuramente inosservate. "Il loro comportamento è inaccettabile", dicono gli aristocratici, gli stessi che pubblicamente appoggiano il proibizionismo e che privatamente rimediano le bottiglie più pregiate dai loro amici farmacisti. Ma i due imprenditori sanno sfruttare i cavilli della legge a loro favore, e in un modo o nell’altro riescono sempre a farla franca: la sete è molta e loro non intendono fermarsi.Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) è stato uno scrittore britannico. Autore estremamente prolifico, scrisse più di cento opere tra romanzi, poesie e opere teatrali. Dotato di un grande senso dell’umorismo, i suoi libri trattano spesso temi quali il paradosso e l’assurdo.

It is the day after Christmas. Colonel Adams and his daughter are throwing a party. The neighbor, the girl’s uncle, her godfather and the local priest Father Brown are invited. The uncle comes up with a plan: they are going to arrange a masquerade play with costumes. It seems like a very good idea, until the three diamonds the girl’s godfather had brought her as a gift disappeared from his pocket. Luckily Father Brown is there and he will try to solve this case as quickly as possible. Will his intuition be enough or will a further investigation have to be led? Find out who the thief is in "The Flying Stars".B. J. Harrison started his Classic Tales Podcast back in 2007, wanting to breathe new life into classic stories. He masterfully plays with a wide array of voices and accents and has since then produced over 500 audiobooks. Now in collaboration with SAGA Egmont, his engaging narration of these famous classics is available to readers everywhere.Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer who lived in the period 1874-1936. He was a prolific journalist and wrote over 4,000 newspaper essays. He even had his own newspaper "G.K.’s Weekly" which he edited himself. He was also a very successful critic with a wide variety of interests, including history, philosophy, theology and economics. This led him to leave an enormous literary legacy with a wide diversity of topics. He wrote novels, short stories, mysteries and poems. His writing was often marked by a sense of humor, which he employed while discussing serious topics, and because of that he was nicknamed "the prince of paradox". Some of his best known works are "The Everlasting Man", "The Napoleon of Notting Hill" and "Charles Dickens: A Critical Study".

The Twelve True Fishermen are going on their annual dinner at an exclusive club where fifteen waiters are going to serve the guests. The fishermen are refined and insist on using their own ornate silver knives and forks, which are shaped like fish and have a pearl in the handles. The dinner goes as planned until the silver cutlery disappears. Have some of the waiters stolen it? Father Brown will find out.B. J. Harrison started his Classic Tales Podcast back in 2007, wanting to breathe new life into classic stories. He masterfully plays with a wide array of voices and accents and has since then produced over 500 audiobooks. Now in collaboration with SAGA Egmont, his engaging narration of these famous classics is available to readers everywhere.Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer who lived in the period 1874-1936. He was a prolific journalist and wrote over 4,000 newspaper essays. He even had his own newspaper "G.K.’s Weekly" which he edited himself. He was also a very successful critic with a wide variety of interests, including history, philosophy, theology and economics. This led him to leave an enormous literary legacy with a wide diversity of topics. He wrote novels, short stories, mysteries and poems. His writing was often marked by a sense of humor, which he employed while discussing serious topics, and because of that he was nicknamed "the prince of paradox". Some of his best known works are "The Everlasting Man", "The Napoleon of Notting Hill" and "Charles Dickens: A Critical Study".

"The Man Who Knew Too Much" tells the story of Horne Fisher and the burden he had to carry throughout his whole life. He knew too much about politicians and aristocracy, about corruption and covered crimes. The prime minister of England was a friend of his father, the foreign minister married his sister. Without even intending to, he found out many things about the private life of politicians, which is very different from what is presented to the people. The question is, what is Fisher going to do with all this information?B. J. Harrison started his Classic Tales Podcast back in 2007, wanting to breathe new life into classic stories. He masterfully plays with a wide array of voices and accents and has since then produced over 500 audiobooks. Now in collaboration with SAGA Egmont, his engaging narration of these famous classics is available to readers everywhere.Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer who lived in the period 1874-1936. He was a prolific journalist and wrote over 4,000 newspaper essays. He even had his own newspaper "G.K.’s Weekly" which he edited himself. He was also a very successful critic with a wide variety of interests, including history, philosophy, theology and economics. This led him to leave an enormous literary legacy with a wide diversity of topics. He wrote novels, short stories, mysteries and poems. His writing was often marked by a sense of humor, which he employed while discussing serious topics, and because of that he was nicknamed "the prince of paradox". Some of his best known works are "The Everlasting Man", "The Napoleon of Notting Hill" and "Charles Dickens: A Critical Study".

Aristide Valentin holds a dinner party in his secret garden, which only has one main entrance. Many people are invited. Julius K. Brayne, one of Valentin’s rivals, is of the party as well. Everything goes as planned until one group of guests finds a beheaded corpse and the dinner turns into an investigation. Many questions begin to arise: How could someone be killed in a closed back garden without anyone noticing? Who is the victim? Who is the murderer? Where is the head? Find out the answers in "The Secret Garden".B. J. Harrison started his Classic Tales Podcast back in 2007, wanting to breathe new life into classic stories. He masterfully plays with a wide array of voices and accents and has since then produced over 500 audiobooks. Now in collaboration with SAGA Egmont, his engaging narration of these famous classics is available to readers everywhere.Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer who lived in the period 1874-1936. He was a prolific journalist and wrote over 4,000 newspaper essays. He even had his own newspaper "G.K.’s Weekly" which he edited himself. He was also a very successful critic with a wide variety of interests, including history, philosophy, theology and economics. This led him to leave an enormous literary legacy with a wide diversity of topics. He wrote novels, short stories, mysteries and poems. His writing was often marked by a sense of humor, which he employed while discussing serious topics, and because of that he was nicknamed "the prince of paradox". Some of his best known works are "The Everlasting Man", "The Napoleon of Notting Hill" and "Charles Dickens: A Critical Study".