CHESTERTON, Gilbert Keith

The everlasting man

The Everlasting Man (1925) by G. K. Chesterton is presented as a fundamental work of 20th-century Christian apologetics, in which the author proposes a vision radically different from that of historian H. G...

The Story of the Family

The book is composed of texts that the author published in various media outlets. Its intention is to show the beauty and importance of the family. This is an institution as old as the human being. Over...

Autobiography

Chesterton in his own words, in a book he preferred not to write but did so near the end of his life after much insistence by friends and admirers (he finished this work just a few weeks before his death...

Father Brown Stories

The famous detective stories created by Chesterton appeared between 1910 and 1935. After the writer's death in 1936, they were collected in five volumes: The Innocence Of Father Brown; The Wisdom Of Father...

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Book that contains eight tales with two people who are in all cases: an English aristocrat, Horne Fisher, who knows almost all the people who are the protagonists of public life and a young journalist. In...

The Man Who was Thursday

G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton...

Orthodoxy

A masterpiece by G.K. Chesterton. The author tries to explain how man can come to believe what the Christian faith presents, with his characteristic style: good humor, a bit of irony and a lot of depth. He...

The Napoleon of Notting Hill

A horrible succession of randomly selected Kings of England is broken when Auberon Quin is chosen, who doesn't care about anything but a good joke. For fun, he institutes elaborate costumes for the provosts...