G.K. Chesterton (1874Ð1936) is generally remembered as the author of the Father Brown detective stories, but in the 1920s and 30s he was regarded as one of the major religious writers of the day, and was a great influence on C.S. Lewis. He wrote for the man on the street, seeking to bring Christian truth and questions of religious, business and political ethics to a wider audience.

Prophet of Orthodoxy

CHESTERTON, G.K.

Sparkes, Russell

Biographies & Memoirs

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

Autobiography

Arts & Literature

Hutchinson

In a London of the future, the drudgery of capitalism and bureaucracy have worn the human spirit down to the point where it can barely stand. When a pint-sized clerk named Auberon Quinn is randomly selected as head of state, he decides to turn London into a medieval carnival for his own amusement. One man, Adam Wayne, takes the new order of things seriously, organizing a Notting Hill army to fight invaders from other neighborhoods. At first his project baffles everyone, but eventually his dedication proves infectious, with delightful results. First published in 1904, The Napoleon of Notting Hill was Chesterton's first novel. It has been called the best first novel by any author in the twentieth century. Newly designed and typeset by Waking Lion Press

Modern Classics Napoleon Of Notting Hill

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Penguin Classic

Rabelais, or his wild illustrator Gustave Doré, must have had something to do with the designing of the things called flats in England and America. There is something entirely Gargantuan in the idea of economising spacng houses on top of each other, front doors and all. And in the chaos and complexity of those perpendicular streets anything may dwell or happen, and it is in one of them, I believe, that the inquirer may find the offices of the Club of Queer Trades. It may be thought at the first glance that the name would attract and startle the passer-by, but nothing attracts or startles in these dim immense hives. The passer-by is only looking for his own melancholy destination, the Montenegro Shipping Agency or the London office of the Rutland Sentinel, and passes through the twilight passages as one passes through the twilight corridors of a dream. If the Thugs set up a Strangers' Assassination Company in one of the great buildings in Norfolk Street, and sent in a mild man in spectacles to answer inquiries, no inquiries would be made. And the Club of Queer Trades reigns in a great edifice hidden like a fossil in a mighty cliff of fossils.   The nature of this society, such as we afterwards discovered it to be, is soon and simply told.

Modern Classics Club Of Queer Trades

The little priest with the large umbrella who moonlights as an amateur detective uses his intuition to untangle twelve remarkable criminal cases

The Innocence of Father Brown (Father Brown Mystery)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Penguin??Books

1974, rack-size paperback reprint edition, Penguin Books, U.K. 192 pages. Here are 8 unique cases, mystery sleuthing at its absolute best. "These stories have delighted three generations of readers."

The Incredulity of Father Brown (Father Brown Mystery)

Includes Absence of Mr. Glass; Duel of Dr. Hirsch; Fairy Tale of Father Brown; God of the Gongs; Head of Caesar; Man in the Passage; Mistake of the Machine; Paradise of Thieves; Perishing of the Pendragons; Purple Wig; Salad of Colonel Cray; Strange Crime of John Boulnois "Tales of crime and discovery, clues and false leads and all the rest of the thrilling material which will make any normal human being sit up and keep on sitting up long past the proper hour for bed. Mr. Chesterton deserves a rousing cheer - in fact, three rousing cheers - for giving us another series of real and fine detective tales." -New York Times.

The Wisdom of father Brown (Father Brown Mystery)

The Scandal of Father Brown (Father Brown Mystery)

12 stories that find Chesterton's amateur detective resolving the strangest of situations - from Tuscany to Devon, from Fulham to Chicago.

The Penguin Complete Father Brown (Father Brown Mystery)

A collection of twelve stories following the ever-curious eccleisiastical amateur sleuth from England to the Continent in treacherous mysteries

The Wisdom of Father Brown (Father Brown Mystery)

Short Stories & Anthologies

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