G.K. Chesterton

This collection brings together over 50 of the greatest detective stories ever written, featuring iconic characters and masterful plots from some of...

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was a British writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary critic. Chesterton wrote around 80 books, several hundred poems, some 200 short stories, several plays, plus 4,000 essays and newspaper columns....

Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton's lovable little Norfolk priest, has an uncanny knack of unraveling mysteries that leave lesser mortals floundering....

Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk dumpling, Father Brown makes for an improbable super-sleuth. But his innocence is the...

Orthodoxy is Chesterton's great theological work, which amounts to an apology for the Christian faith heretofore unequalled, excepting perhaps by C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity....

A "very short Catholic priest" who does "...not seem to know which was the right end of his return ticket," Father Brown is the embodiment of the phrase 'looks can be deceiving'....

In each story collected here, the star detective, Horne Fisher, deals with another strange mystery....

Saint Francis of Assisi is one of the most influential men in the whole of human history....

Chesterton's allegorical masterpiece is a surreal, psychologically thrilling novel that centres on anarchists in turn of the century London who call themselves by the names of days of the week....

Classic Poems for Boys comprises a delightfully varied set of over 20 poems for 5- to 10-year olds....

The story begins when two poets meet. Gabriel Syme is a poet of law. Lucian Gregory is a poetic anarchist. As the poets protest their respective philosophies, they strike a challenge....

The Everlasting Man, written in response to an anti-Christian history of humans penned by H.G. Wells, is considered Chesterton’s masterpiece....

Chesterton portrays Father Brown as a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, and an uncanny...

The book acts as a guide which explains how Christianity is the best choice for all human beings, not because it's outside of our world and an independent truth....

G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown is perhaps the most lovable amateur detective ever created....

Considered by many to be one of G.K. Chesterton’s greatest works, The Everlasting Man (first published in 1925), along with many of Chesterton’s other works, were heavily influenced by his own spiritual journey into Christianity....

El conjunto de los relatos del padre Brown constituye quizá la obra más popular de Chesterton. El simpático cura-detective que los protagoniza resuelve en ellos intrincados casos gracias a un conocimiento sencillo a la par que es profundo de la naturaleza humana....

This audiobook is wonderfully narrated by British actor Nigel Peever, who brings the story to life. Published by Chesterton Books. Listen to learn more....

From London to Cornwall, then to Italy and France, a short, shabby priest takes on bandits, traitors, and killers....

After the success of Heretics, G. K. Chesterton was challenged and compelled to share the story of his pilgrimage to faith. The result is this bracing, watershed religious autobiography....