A very good Christian book, which, nevertheless, speaks not so much about Christianity in itself, as about humanity, as the principle of life in general. If there were such a category as „social Christian romance”, then this book would be one of the most remarkable examples. The book is attractive and not only because of the description of a non-ideal world, but also because of the author’s attitude to his characters. There are no heroes in principle, there are only images....
Brown is a short, inconspicuous provincial priest in a ridiculous wide-brimmed hat and an old umbrella. It is amazing how the author twisted the plot in an incredible way, fitting such a complex structure consisting of small details and nuances into such a small amount of stories. At the same time, Father Brown finds himself in the crime scene quite by accident. Either this is a social reception, then it comes back from the funeral, then by invitation. And always his figure...
This is a detective story collection of Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Most of the stories in the collection are about the hermit of society, Horn Fischer, who has the talent to solve crimes. Journalist Harold March was walking around the outskirts of Turnbull and met the bizarre Horn Fisher, whom he immediately made friends with. No sooner did they get to know each other when they became witnesses of the disaster: the car flew off the road and fell into the abyss. Fisher and Ma...
Chesterton’s book is a series of mysterious stories with the participation of the narrator and his friend, an eccentric ex-judge Basil Grant. Each story is about someone who belongs to the Club of Strange Merchants – about who makes a living in a unique way. This is an exciting journey for every reader.
W Ortodoksji Chesterton, zaskakując trafnością i aktualnością spostrzeżeń, zaprasza czytelnika do jedynej w swoim rodzaju podróży – z domu wariatów do świata pełnego codziennych cudów i z dziecinnego pokoju na Kalwarię – poprzez wszystkie zawiłości, paradoksy i rewelacje chrześcijaństwa. Podczas tej podróży możemy razem z autorem, który opisuje swoje dochodzenie do wiary, odkrywać „niebezpieczny i podniecający” świat ortodoksji, by ostatecznie przekonać się, że wróciliśmy do...
„Źródło i mielizny” to kontynuacja zbioru esejów zatytułowanego „Dla Sprawy”. Tym razem autor zamierzał pisać w tonie zupełnie poważnym, ale i tak wkradło się do tej książki sporo lekkiego humoru. Chesterton z właściwą sobie przenikliwością przygląda się rozmaitym przejawom współczesnego życia i kryjącym się za nimi ideom. Opisuje komunizm jako rozpasany ascetyzm, a kapitalizm jako głównego wroga rodziny. Chwali uroki pustelnictwa, wyjaśnia, czemu dzisiejsza ekonomia jest cho...
In Chesterton’s second Father Brown book, „The Wisdom of Father Brown,” we get a series of bizarre, sometimes dangerous mysteries that Father Brown must puzzle out. Some of the crimes are simple once Brown explains them, but others are devious, chilling things that are wrapped in Chesterton’s poetic prose. In the stories that follow, the priest investigates many other mysteries: a sinister voodoo cult, a nobleman with a deformed ear, a gang of Italian thieves, a lie-detecto...
Chesterton again allows us to accompany Father Brown, preternaturally-unbiased master of human nature, as he stumbles across another series of murders and mysteries. These stories in this series are not as compact as those in other books, notably „The Innocence of Father Brown,” but they have the same magnetic power to draw the reader in. As ever, Chesterton is interested not only in delivering first rate detective stories, but of describing human nature. His characters are...
Meet Auberon Quin. He is a man to whom the world is a punchline; a dangerous man, for he cares for nothing but a joke. And meet Adam Wayne – to whom the joke is quite serious. When Quin is appointed King of England, he decides to turn London into a medieval carnival for his own amusement. When Adam Wayne is appointed Provost of Notting Hill, he proposes to be patriotic about it and takes the new order of things seriously, organizing a Notting Hill army to fight invaders fro...
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare was written by G.K. Chesterton and published in 1908. Ostensibly about a secret policeman investigating anarchists, it becomes a surreal and philosophical novel. It is a metaphysical thriller, and a detective story filled with poetry and politics. Gabriel Syme is a poet and a police detective. Lucian Gregory is a poet and a bomb-throwing anarchist. Syme infiltrates a secret meeting of anarchists and becomes ’Thursday’, one of the seven ...
Father Brown is one of the Hound’s greatest crime fighters and his creator, Chesterton, one of the masters of the short crime story. Father Brown is the second among the Great literary detectives, right after Sherlock Holmes. In some ways, Father Brown was a continuation of what Chesterton wrote in his classic Orthodoxy.The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) is the first of five collections of mystery stories by G. K. Chesterton starring an unimposing but surprisingly capable...
Have you wondered how the great detectives solved their cases? In The Secret of Father Brown, while visiting Flambeau’s house Father Brown meets a curious American who has to know as some of his countrymen think Father Brown is using mystical powers. The fourth of the Father Brown detective story collections has something the first three did not: a framing sequence at the beginning and end, in which Father Brown explains to a curious person his method for solving crimes – h...
The Incredulity of Father Brown is the third collection of short mysteries by G.K. Chesterton about that character. In The Incredulity of Father Brown, all the stories involve murders and conflicts between Catholicism and atheism and spiritualism. We find the usual Chesterton „moral landscape” -- in which the author paints a picture of nature somehow mirroring the fact that something is very wrong. In „The Incredulity of Father Brown,” G.K. Chesterton treats us to another s...
„Dla Sprawy” to jedna z najważniejszych książek w dorobku G.K. Chestertona, wybitnego angielskiego pisarza i publicysty. Jest w niej dowcip i humor, ale też wojowniczość, bo zawarte w niej eseje miały być z założenia polemiczne i kontrowersyjne. Chesterton, idąc pod prąd modnych idei, wyjaśnia, dlaczego porzucił protestantyzm, dlaczego świecki światopogląd nie wystarcza dla stworzenia cywilizacji, a także dlaczego konformizm jest dzić nazywany odwagą, a bezmyślność stanowi ty...
Drugi tom kultowych opowieści kryminalnych (pierwszy „Niewinność księdza Browna”, Wydawnictwo Fronda 2017), w których zagadki rozwiązuje przenikliwy duchowny. Opowiadania wielokrotnie przenoszone na ekran, przyciągające jak magnes widzów na całym świecie w serialowej wersji BBC – tym razem w nowoczesnym i błyskotliwym tłumaczeniu Magdy Sobolewskiej. Zanim pojawił się „Ojciec Mateusz” – kryminalne zagadki w brawurowym stylu rozwiązywał ksiądz Brown, kultowy bohater z panteonu ...
„Źródło i mielizny” to kontynuacja zbioru esejów zatytułowanego „Dla Sprawy”. Tym razem autor zamierzał pisać w tonie zupełnie poważnym, ale i tak wkradło się do tej książki sporo lekkiego humoru. Chesterton z właściwą sobie przenikliwością przygląda się rozmaitym przejawom współczesnego życia i kryjącym się za nimi ideom. Opisuje komunizm jako rozpasany ascetyzm, a kapitalizm jako głównego wroga rodziny. Chwali uroki pustelnictwa, wyjaśnia, czemu dzisiejsza ekonomia jest cho...
