G.K. Chesterton

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

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....

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

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....

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....

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

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

Three BBC Radio performances of works by the great G. K. Chesterton....

In What's Wrong With the World, G.K. Chesterton discusses big business, education, government, feminism, and more. The work draws on thousands of essays Chesterton contributed to newspapers and periodicals over his lifetime....

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

Dubbed the "Dumb Ox" by his classmates for his shyness, Saint Thomas Aquinas proved to be possessed of the rarest brilliance, justifying the faith of his teacher....

In "The Incredulity of Father Brown," G.K. Chesterton treats us to another set of bizarre crimes that only his "stumpy" Roman Catholic...

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

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....

This is a new edition of the first collection of G. K. Chesterton's masterful mysteries, The Innocence of Father Brown. Contains 12 thrilling tales, including "The Blue Cross", "The Invisible Man", and "The Sins of Prince Saradine"....

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'....

The Great Detective Library: 101 Legendary Detective Novels & Stories is a captivating anthology that brings together the finest works from the world's most renowned sleuths. Featuring iconic characters such as Hercule Poirot, Father Brown, Nero Wolfe, Sherlock Holmes, Inspector Alan Grant,...

These four stories test Father Brown in many ways, creating headaches a plenty. However, Father Brown is nothing if not redoubtable....

Father Brown is an eccentric priest with his own particular ways of dealing with crime....

Published in 1911, The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. Chesterton is a poem about the deeds of King Alfred the Great....